Improving listening comprehension skill is one of the urgent contemporary educational needs in the field of second language acquisition and metacognitive strategies are proved to help learners manage and self-regulate their ...

This study investigated the effect of role play on improving speaking ability of Iranian pre-intermediate ESP learners. To this aim, the researchers examined the students' speaking ability in two groups: the experimental ...

Researchers have extensively studied phenomena that affect a second language learner's oral production while there is scant evidence about input-related factors. Accordingly, the present study sought to investigate how ...

Professional development is critical in providing constant updates on EFL teachers' teaching practice.  This mixed methods study was conducted to explore the effects of participation in action research on EFL teachers' ...

How deeply a word is processed has long been considered as a crucial factor in the realm of vocabulary acquisition. In literature, two frameworks have been proposed to operationalize the depth of processing, namely the ...

Teachers employ various strategies to deal with the errors that occur in the classroom. The present study aimed to investigate various types of EFL teachers' error management behaviors and the reasons for employing them. ...

In the available teacher development literature, the linkage between teaching experience, as one the crucial factors in teacher development (Tsui, 2005), and English teachers' job performance with regard to gender differences ...

Interest plays a key role in education and language learning. This study investigated if selecting and using interest-based instructional materials could impact learners' performance in L2 reading. It also examined whether ...