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Doski, Pawan M.; Çele, Filiz – English Language Teaching, 2018
This study examines the effect of prompts and recasts in providing CF for the article errors by Kurdish-Arabic bilinguals who learn English as a third language. 39 lower-intermediate Kurdish-Arabic bilingual learners of English were tested on three tests: pre-, post-, and delayed post-tests. The participants were randomly put into three groups:…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Feedback (Response)
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Pishghadam, Reza; Zarei, Sima – English Language Teaching, 2012
Granted the fact that different cultures have different speaking styles, knowledge of these styles can help people grasp the essence of social cultural knowledge to communicate with others more successfully. In this regard, the present paper aims at comparing the use of speech act of gratitude in Persian and Chinese EFL learners and English native…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Chinese, Indo European Languages, North American English
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Sarani, Abdullah; Sahebi, Leila Farzaneh – English Language Teaching, 2012
This study investigates the teaching of vocabulary in ESP courses within the paradigm of task-based language teaching, concentrating on Persian literature students at Birjand University in Iran. Two homogenous groups of students who were taking their ESP courses participated in the study as a control and an experimental group. A teacher-made test…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English for Special Purposes, Indo European Languages, Literature
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Vosoughi, Marjan – English Language Teaching, 2012
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the L2 use rate in EFL classrooms through introducing three task conditions in learning lexical items. Data were collected from a group of freshman university students (male and female) studying in Islamic Azad university of Sabzevar, Iran (N = 73). Based on their performance on a Michigan TOEFL…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Task Analysis
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Asadollahfam, Hassan; Lotfi, Ahmad Reza – English Language Teaching, 2010
Two off-line and on-line reading tasks investigated the real-time comprehension of doubly quantified sentences with sentential negation interaction. The results showed that perceivers experienced processing difficulty in assigning inverse-scope interpretations to the sentences with double operators, not only when such sentences appeared in…
Descriptors: Ambiguity (Semantics), Semantics, Interlanguage, Reading Comprehension
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Abbasian, Reza; Khajavi, Yaser – English Language Teaching, 2010
This study sought to investigate the rate of attrition in general and special vocabulary in and out of context. Participants of the study were 210 male Persian literature teachers with different years of non-exposure to English (2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 &10) after graduating from university. They were selected through purposive sampling from among…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Skills, Vocabulary, Context Effect