English language teaching (ELT) writing practitioners have long attempted to improve EFL/ESL learners' competence in writing with recourse to either instruction or feedback. Likewise, researchers have, to date, mainly ...

Self-regulation is the ability to regulate one's thoughts and actions to attain goals. Accordingly, self-regulated learning (SRL) involves plans and behaviors to achieve learning goals. With this in mind, in this study we ...

The present study aimed to satisfy a twofold purpose: On the one hand, it sought to verify the postulation that agent-based instruction could offer a compromise approach to teaching L2 idioms where form and meaning would ...

Although lexis research (e.g., Lewis, 1997; Taguchi, 2008) has already evidenced the possibility of teaching formulaic sequences (FS), further research is still needed to examine the procedures or frameworks through which ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate videotaping as a strategy for EFL teachers' reflective teaching. To this end, eight participants were selected from a language institute in Iran and were under investigation for ...