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Naserpour, Azam; Zarei, Abbas Ali – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2021
The present study aimed at investigating the effects of scaffolding strategies using input and output-oriented tasks on Iranian EFL learners' receptive and productive knowledge of lexical collocations. For this purpose, 540 adult intermediate-level EFL learners--both male and female--were selected and divided into six experimental groups; three…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Multiple Choice Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Namaziandost, Ehsan; Mohammed Sawalmeh, Murad Hassan; Izadpanah Soltanabadi, Masoumeh – Cogent Education, 2020
The current study investigates the effect of massed and spaced instruction on vocabulary recall and retention. To fulfill this objective, 75 Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners (16 to 19 years) took part in 15 sessions of 60 minutes. The participants were randomly divided into three experimental groups; a spaced distribution group (n = 25), a…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Farshi, Najmeh; Tavakoli, Mansoor – Language Teaching Research, 2021
The purpose of this study was to find out, whether three methods of presenting input, were effective in relation to language aptitude. Persian-speaking learners of English were provided with 20 grammatical collocations (verb-preposition collocations) embedded in authentic passages, lexically/grammatically elaborated passages, and…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Linguistic Input, Grammar, Indo European Languages
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Nowbakht, Mohammad; Shahnazari, Mohammadtaghi – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
In the present study, the comparative effects of comprehensible input, output and corrective feedback on the receptive acquisition of L2 vocabulary items were investigated. Two groups of beginning EFL learners participated in the study. The control group received comprehensible input only, while the experimental group received input and was…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Linguistic Input, Pretests Posttests, Feedback (Response)