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The Effect of Context on Iranian EFL Students' Amount of Speech Production of English Language and Their Ways of Using Hedging Devices
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Mostofee, Saheb; Pour, Samane Raeis – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
Socioculturally and sociolinguistically, gender can have a profound effect on learning and teaching English language as a foreign language. Also learning cooperatively in which both female and male students are involved seems to play a constructive role in creating and enhancing students' performance, achievement and competence of a foreign…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Gender Differences
Compensation Strategies: Tracking Movement in EFL Learners' Speaking Skills
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Karbalaei, Alireza; Negin Taji, Tania – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2014
The present study aimed to determine the compensation strategies used by Iranian elementary EFL learners across the speaking skill. The participants of this study were a sample of 120 EFL elementary male and female learners whose ages ranged between 11 and 25 at a language institute in Rostam, Iran. The main participants were homogenized through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
An Exploration of Upper-Intermediate Iranian EFL Learners' Perception of Politeness Strategies and Power Relation in Disagreement
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Niroomand, Masoumeh – English Language Teaching, 2012
The present study was designed to examine the ways power relations influence politeness strategies in disagreement. The study was an attempt to find out whether different power status of people influences the the choice of appropriate politeness strategies and speech act of disagreement by Iranian EFL learners, in a university setting. A Discourse…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Power Structure, Language Proficiency
Communication Strategies: An Interplay between Proficiency and Gender
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Shokouhi, Hussein; Angameh, Farzad – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2008
This paper is intended to investigate the interplay between proficiency and gender in the use of communication strategies. Sixty Iranian university male and female subjects studying English took part in the experiment and performed two tasks: word recognition and picture-story narration. The results indicate that proficiency had a more perceptible…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Language Proficiency, Gender Differences, Word Recognition