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Download full textHameed, Paikar Fatima Mazhar – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The craziness of English spelling has undeniably perplexed learners, especially in an EFL context as in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In these situations, among other obstacles, learners also have to tackle the perpetual and unavoidable problem of MT interference. Sadly, this perplexity takes the shape of a real problem in the language classroom…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spelling, Error Patterns, Error Analysis (Language)
Hamavandy, Mehraban; Kiany, Gholam Reza – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This article provides an overview on language test validation theories, especially the Messickian view on construct validity and the way it's been translated into practice. First, a brief historical synopsis will be set forth, followed by recent views on test validity as advanced by Messick and Kane. The review goes on to lay out the similarities…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Concept Formation, Educational History, Construct Validity
Chaudhry, Sajid M.; Christopher, Anne A.; Krishnasamy, Hariharan A/L N. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
The study examines the issue of gender discrimination in the post death scenario of obituarial discourse. It aims to identify the way Pakistani newspaper obituaries recognize and project males and females after their deaths. A total of 601 paid obituaries published in a year's time span in Pakistani English newspapers were evaluated for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Newspapers, Death, English
Ploquin, Marie – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2013
Chinese tones are associated with a syllable to convey meaning, English pitch accents are prominence markers associated with stressed syllables. As both are created by pitch modulation, their pitch contours can be quite similar. The experiment reported here examines whether native speakers of Chinese produce, when speaking English, the Chinese…
Descriptors: Chinese, English, Intonation, Suprasegmentals
Moghaddam, Nahid Nemati; Mahmoudi, Asgar – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This study investigated the effects of three types of pre-reading activities (movie-watching, vocabulary presentation, and pre-reading summarization) on the reading comprehension of 76 elementary-level EFL Iranian learners. The participants were randomly assigned to one control and three experimental conditions and then a pretest was given to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension
Naeini, Nazgol Nekoui; Shahrokhi, Mohsen – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The present study intended to examine the impact of methodology on EFL vocabulary learning of elementary school boys and girls. To achieve this end, 40 elementary female and male students aged 9-10 were selected from among 60 students studying at a language institute in Isfahan, Iran. The students were selected based on the results of an overall…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Adelnia, Rezvan; Salehi, Hadi – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This study is an attempt to investigate impact of using a technique, namely, genre-based approach on improving reading ability on Iranian EFL learners' achievement. Therefore, an attempt was made to compare genre-based approach to teaching reading with traditional approaches. For achieving this purpose, by administering the Oxford Quick Placement…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Skills, English (Second Language), Literary Genres
Huang, Xiaoyan; Sultan, Robert – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This study examines terms of address currently used by employees of Chinese business enterprises. The authors find that a speaker's address selections are related significantly to the gender of the speaker, the location of the enterprise in Eastern or Western China, and the ownership type of the enterprise; that is, whether the enterprise is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business, Language Usage, Gender Differences
Yousefzadeh, Malahat; Salimi, Asghar – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the flipped (revised) learning had effect on student learning outcome. Lage et al (2000) describes the flipped classroom as " Inverting the classroom means that events that have traditionally take place inside the classroom now take place outside the class and vice versa" (p.32). The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Homework
Subramaniam, Bathuma; Palanisamy, Kalaimakal – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This study explores the usage of language learning strategies in private secondary Schools in Malaysia. Hypothesis was made that most of the students do not practice the language learning strategies completely and accurately. The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between language learning strategies and practices of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Private Schools, Second Language Learning
Al-Ghazalli, Mehdi Falih; Al-Shammary, Mohanad A. Amert – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the pragmatic difficulties encountered by Iraqi EFL university students in producing the speech act of apology. Although the act of apology is easy to recognize or use by native speakers of English, non-native speakers generally encounter difficulties in discriminating one speech act from another. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Speech Acts
Zafarmand, Atefeh; Ghanizadeh, Afsaneh; Akbari, Omid – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This article sets out to examine the relationship between EFL learners' goal orientation, metacognitive awareness and self-efficacy in a single framework. One hundred fifteen EFL students from two universities of Mashhad, a city in north-eastern Iran took part in this study. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was utilized to examine the…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Goal Orientation, Metacognition, English (Second Language)
Kalali, Nazanin Naderi; Pishkar, Kian – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The main thrust of this study was to determine whether a genre-based instruction improve the writing proficiency of Iranian EFL learners. To this end, 30 homogenous Iranian BA learners studying English at Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas Branch were selected as the participants of the study through a version of TOEFL test as the proficiency…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Abdollahzadeh, Somaieh – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
Focus on form instruction is a kind of instruction that draws students, attention to linguistic elements as they arise incidentally in meaning based instruction. There are different types of focus on form instruction. The present study was designed to investigate the effect of incidental focus on form on grammatical accuracy among Iranian L2…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Fatemi, Mohammad Ali; Montazerinia, Fatemeh; Shirazian, Sharifeh; Atarodi, Maliheh – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Cultural integration can be used as an effective learning practice in contexts of English as Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms. The present study aimed at investigating the effect of cultural integration on the development of Iranian EFL upper-intermediate learners' listening comprehension. To this end, fifty-two upper-intermediate EFL learners…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Integration, Acculturation, Listening Comprehension
