Framed in a cognitive approach to task-supported L2 vocabulary learning, the present study used a pedagogical approach to investigate the relative effectiveness of tasks with different involvement loads on the ...

The necessity of conducting more studies addressing the development of pragmatic profciency and strong pragmatic awareness for English language learners has made the role of instruction and feedback in teaching ...

This study was an effort towards examining the relationship between Iranian EFL learners' language proficiency and their metaphorical competence. The were 120 Iranian EFL learners studying at SADR English ...

The present study aimed to investigate the effect of CA- based vs. EA- based error correction on the improvement of the EFL intermediate learners' Lexical Errors of writing. Forty intermediate students, all ...

In the introductory stages of language learning, students are exposed to parative forms explicitly taught in their textbooks. As Knoch (2004) mthis is accomplished by teaching the comparative form of the ...

By the emergence of new approaches to teach a second language, finding a good method to teach idioms has been the main concern of some researchers (e.g., Elena & Moreno, 2001 Cook, Fazly, & Stevenson, 2007). ...

As oral skills are increasingly seen as a high priority, phonology and pronuncia tion teaching are occupying a central position in the teaching and learning of other languages. The present study is an attempt ...

This study examines the impact of syntactic priming on the production and retention of indirect questions by Iranian learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). Eighty learners participated in two experiments investigating ...