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Zand-Moghadam, Amir; Samani, Fatemeh Mohandes – TESL-EJ, 2021
Although the effective role of instruction in developing L2 learners' pragmatic competence has been acknowledged in the literature, very few studies have investigated the effect of a specific language teaching method on the development of pragmatic competence. Thus, to address the existing gap, this study was conducted (1) to investigate the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Pragmatics
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Parvaresh, Shahrzad; Pirnajmuddin, Hossein; Hesabi, Akbar – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2019
While enacting innovative learner-centered practices has been reported to instigate, at least initially, student negative responses in diverse contexts, studies in translation education adhering to teaching approaches informed by social-constructivism have paid no great attention to student resistance, as one potential threatening factor, in…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Teaching Methods, Translation, Constructivism (Learning)
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Rohani, Gholamreza; Ketabi, Saeed; Tavakoli, Mansoor – English Language Teaching, 2012
The present study investigated the effect of context on the strategies the EFL learners utilized to process idioms. To do so, ten Iranian intermediate EFL learners were randomly assigned to two groups who then attended a think-aloud session. The 5 subjects in the first group were exposed to an animated cartoon including 23 unfamiliar idioms while…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Language Processing, Figurative Language, Cartoons