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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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