Previous research studies were successful in employing Task-based instruction (TBI) to enhance students' either speaking or writing skills or grammar knowledge. However, few research studies have investigated whether the TBI impacts students' grammatical performance in both speaking and writing skills. The quasi-experimental research investigated…

The current research study was conducted to examine the impacts of focused and unfocused audio-appended reading tasks on female EFL learners' acquisition of a rule-bound structure (passive voice) and a non-rule-bound structure (prepositions). The participants of this study involved ninety intermediate female English learners. They were assigned…

This paper aims to explore the Iranian EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners' ability to gain grammatical accuracy in their writing by noticing and correcting their own grammatical errors. Recent literature in language acquisition has emphasized the role of implicit tasks in encouraging learners to develop autonomous language learning…