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Akbarnezhad, Shima; Sadighi, Firooz; Bagheri, Mohammad Sadegh – Cogent Education, 2019
Acquisition of verbs and their syntactic and semantic properties can act as the core of any sentence across languages. EFL learners encounter learnability problems in the perception of English verbs' argument structures manifested by different verbs. The current study aimed at investigating and diagnosing the problems Iranian EFL learners face…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
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Zare, Mohammad; Bagheri, Mohammad Sadegh; Sadighi, Firooz; Rassaei, Ehsan – Cogent Education, 2021
The current study focused mainly on the role of the linguistic complexity of IELTS writing Task 2. In other words, it investigated the differential effects of two interrelated linguistic complexities of writing Task 2 on the three levels of discourse representation and what IELTS candidates perceived through analyzing IELTS writing topics both at…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Writing Tests
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Rezaeian, Mehrdad; Sadighi, Firooz; Yamini, Mortaza; Bagheri, Mohammad Sadegh – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2018
Following an emergentist approach, the authors examined the comprehension of four different types of restrictive relative clauses (direct object/oblique vs. subject/indirect object) with animate/inanimate referents by Iranian EFL learners. To this end, an Oxford placement test and two sets of comprehension tests within a week's interval were…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)