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Zare, Javad; Tavakoli, Mansoor – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
This study was an attempt to investigate the functions of personal metadiscursive expressions found in academic monologues and dialogues. The analysis was based on verbal data of 16 academic lectures and discussions. Based on Ädel's (2010) taxonomy of the subtypes and discourse functions of metadiscourse, the two data sets were compared in terms…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Dialogs (Language), Discourse Analysis, Lecture Method
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Ghavamnia, Maedeh; Ketabi, Saeed; Tavakoli, Mansoor – Reading Psychology, 2013
This study investigated the differences in the type and frequency of strategy use by four proficient and four less-proficient readers. Thirty female senior undergraduates majoring in TEFL at a university in Iran were given a reading comprehension test. Based on the results of their reading test, eight were chosen based on a nonrandom purposive…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Classification
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Falhasiri, Mohammad; Tavakoli, Mansoor; Hasiri, Fatemeh; Mohammadzadeh, Ali Reza – English Language Teaching, 2011
This study intends to shed light on the most occurring grammatical and lexical (pragmatic) errors which students make in their compositions. For this purpose, 23 male and female undergraduate students from different majors were asked to take part in the present study. Each week, for four weeks, students were asked to write 4 compositions on…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Teaching Methods, Grammar