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Download full textFatollahi, Moslem – English Language Teaching, 2016
Sight translation is the oral translation of a written text and is a mixture of translation and interpreting. Sight translation is a widely-used activity in translation training programs. Yet, this mode of translation has rarely been applied as a reading instruction technique in Iranian EFL instruction context in spite of the growing interest in…
Descriptors: Translation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Madhkhan, Mozhgan; Mousavi, Seyed Mojtaba – English Language Teaching, 2017
The present study investigates the impact of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) on Iranian EFL learners' reading comprehension performance. Seventy participants were assigned randomly to the experimental and control groups. Having instructed the two groups with the same texts but different task types and activities (i.e., tasks in 4 types) during…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Implementation, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Amin Afshar, Maryam; Mojavezi, Ahmad – English Language Teaching, 2017
EFL learners at all ages and proficiency levels are usually confronted with various problems in vocabulary learning and retention. This study sought to introduce strategies for improvement of vocabulary learning and retention. Therefore, the effects of using aural/visual storytelling on Iranian EFL learners' vocabulary learning and retention were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Giveh, Fatemeh – English Language Teaching, 2018
The present study tried to investigate one of the options for improving self-directed learning in Iranian EFL learners, i.e., contemplative L2 instruction with a flavor of transformative instruction. Accordingly, it adopted a quasi-experimental design to investigate the influential effects that contemplative teaching would exert on Iranian EFL…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Independent Study, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Safari, Mahshad; Koosha, Mansour – English Language Teaching, 2016
Regarding the fundamental role of speaking in language skills, this study intended to investigate the effects of speaking portfolio as an alternative form of assessment for assessing Iranian EFL learners' speaking ability at the intermediate and advanced proficiency levels and also its impact on their attitudes. Accordingly, from the population of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Portfolios (Background Materials)
Masoudi, Golfam – English Language Teaching, 2017
The present study was designed to investigate empirically the effect of Vocabulary Self-Selection strategy and Input Enhancement strategy on the vocabulary knowledge of Iranian EFL Learners. After taking a diagnostic pretest, both experimental groups enrolled in two classes. Learners who practiced Vocabulary Self-Selection were allowed to…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Linguistic Input, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Oghyanous, Parastoo Alizadeh – English Language Teaching, 2017
The present study aimed to investigate the effect of brain-based teaching on the self-efficacy of young EFL learners. The initial participants of the study were 90 learners within the age range of 13-16 who were selected based on convenience sampling. Theses 90 young EFL learners were given a Flyers test the scores of which were used to choose 60…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Brain, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
Hamzeh, Alireza – English Language Teaching, 2016
The current research was an attempt to explore the washback impact of task-based instruction (TBI) on EFL Iranian learners' vocabulary development. To this end, conducting an Oxford Placement Test (OPT), 30 out of 72 EFL Iranian learners studying in an English language institute, were randomly selected. Then, they were assigned to experimental (N…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Testing Problems, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Drood, Pooya; Asl, Hanieh Davatgari – English Language Teaching, 2016
The ways in which task in classrooms has developed and proceeded have receive great attention in the field of language teaching and learning in the sense that they draw attention of learners to the competing features such as accuracy, fluency, and complexity. English audiovisual and audio recorded materials have been widely used by teachers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Audio Equipment, Audiovisual Instruction, English (Second Language)
Haghshenas, Mahsa Sadat Mousavi; Hashemian, Mahmood – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study examined the effect of etymological elaboration, pictorial elucidation, and integration of these 2 strategies on idiom learning by L2 learners. A total number of 80 homogeneous intermediate learners studying English at 3 language institutes in Isfahan, Iran, were selected. The intermediate participants were selected as the result of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Learning Strategies, Etymology
Fatemipour, Hamidreza; Hemmati, Shiva – English Language Teaching, 2015
Grammar Consciousness-Raising (GCR) is an approach to teaching of grammar which learners instead of being taught the given rules, experience language data. The data challenge them to rethink, restructure their existing mental grammar and construct an explicit rule to describe the grammatical feature which the data illustrate (Ellis, 2002). And…
Descriptors: Grammar, Consciousness Raising, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
Kalantari, Farzaneh; Hashemian, Mahmood – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study investigated the effects of the storytelling approach on improving of EFL learners' vocabulary knowledge. To this end, 30 upper-beginner EFL learners (out of a population of 134) were selected by means of an OPT test and were assigned to 2 groups: 1 experimental and 1 group. The participants were selected from among young EFL learners…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Jafari, Sanaz; Chalak, Azizeh – English Language Teaching, 2016
The availability and the use of mobile messaging applications are increasingly widespread among the new generation of students in Iran. The present study aimed to investigate the role of WhatsApp in the vocabulary learning improvement of Iranian junior high school EFL students. Using a mixed method design, a group of 60 students including 30 male…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Oriented Programs, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language)
Rahimi, Mehrak; Soleymani, Elham – English Language Teaching, 2015
This study aimed at investigating the impact of mobile learning on EFL learners' listening anxiety and listening comprehension. Fifty students of two intermediate English courses were selected and sampled as the experimental (n = 25) and control (n = 25) groups. Students' entry level of listening anxiety was assessed by foreign language listening…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods
Khaghaninezhad, Mohammad Saber; Jafarzadeh, Ghasem – English Language Teaching, 2014
Listening comprehension is usually considered as one of the most difficult language skills to EFL learners due to the unavoidable presence of "reduced forms" in authentic speech. This study was an attempt to investigate the effect of explicit "reduced forms" instruction on Iranian EFL learners' overall listening comprehension…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Listening Comprehension
