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Soltanpour, Fatemeh; Valizadeh, Mohammadreza; Ghafarianzirak, Fatemeh – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2018
This two-week quantitative experimental study aimed at making a comparison among the effects of individual and collaborative pre-task planning, both with and without receiving teacher feedback on structural organization and clarity of argumentative essays. The participants were 120 Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners, assigned…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Pourmousavi, Zahra; Mohamadi Zenouzagh, Zohre – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2020
The linguistic scrutiny of any aspect of pragmatics is bound to considering carefully the context in which it is expressed. This becomes very glaring when the utterances that constitute discourse are viewed as performing social actions. In an EFL context like Iran, English language learners are in urgent need of raising their pragmatic awareness…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Zolghadri, Maryam; Jafari, Sakineh; Izadpanah, Siros – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2020
A great number of investigations have focused on the subject of task rehearsal (repetition) and its likely influence on language learning. Giving language (L2) learners an opportunity to repeat the task may help them to redistribute their focus on form, since they have already become fairly familiar with the content. Several studies have also…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Feedback (Response)
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Bakhoda, Iman; Shabani, Karim – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2019
Following a suggestion by Poehner [2008. Dynamic Assessment: A Vygotskian Approach to Understanding and Promoting Second Language Development. Berlin: Springer] about the possible merger between group dynamic assessment (GDA) rooted in Vygotskian sociocultural theory (SCT) and computer testing, this study has decided to test the feasibility of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Sociocultural Patterns