Promoting communicative interactions, while simultaneously drawing students' attention to language form, is considered as a potentially significant area of research in second language acquisition. This study focuses on the ...

Heavy-NP shift occurs when speakers prefer placing lengthy or “heavy" noun phrase direct objects in the clause-final position within a sentence rather than in the post-verbal position. Two experiments were conducted in ...

The discourse of the discussion in research articles is regarded to be of considerable significance—as in this section the findings are interpreted in light of previous research and the authors' argumentations are put ...

Drawing upon sociocultural theory of Vygotsky, the current study aims to investigate the effect of dyadic interaction in mixed and matched level proficiency pairings on comprehension and production of request and apology ...

Based on Robinson's Cognition Hypothesis, this study explored the effects of task complexity on the lexical complexity of Iranian EFL students' argumentative writing.This study was designed to explore the manipulation of ...