This content analysis study, employing a multimodal perspective and critical visual analysis, set out to analyze gender representations in Top Notch series, one of the highly used ELT textbooks in Iran. For this purpose, ...

The present study was an attempt to investigate the effect of meta-cognitive strategy (planning, self-monitoring) awareness raising instruction on reading comprehension of Iranian ESP learners. Participants of three groups ...

The present study was an attempt to investigate the effectiveness of reading instructional approach called MCSR- Modified Collaborative Strategic Reading on reducing intermediate EFL learner's reading anxiety. Based on a ...

This study embarks upon uncovering the probable relationships between Iranian parents' attitudes, motivations, and home literacy practices (HLP) towards bilingualism, Persian and English. To undertake the study, sixty-eight ...

This study is a quantitative and functional corpus-based study of self-mention in soft science Master theses. One important purpose of this study was to find out the functions of self-mention in soft science Master theses. ...

This study aimed at investigating the impact of writing on Iranian EFL college students' rhetorical organization. Thirty Iranian female undergraduate students majoring in English at Al-zahra University participated in the ...

Task-based language Teaching (TBLT) has occupied the pertinent literature for some long years. However, the role of specific task type in developing specific skill type seems to be amongst the intact issues in the literature. ...

Affective factors are the most important factors in SLA and EFL studies. These factors include motivation, self-confidence, anxiety, etc. Researches on learners' characteristics have been investigated for over a century. ...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between Iranian EFL learners' use of vocabulary learning strategies and their autonomy with a focus on the gender. To meet this objective, 82(39 males ...