Collaborative tasks and learning occasions in English as a foreign language

critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...

Use of Articles in Learning English as a Foreign Language: A Study of Iranian English Undergraduates

The significance of error analysis for the learner, the teacher and the researcher is now widely recognized. Earlier studies of error analysis concentrated on intersystematic comparison of the “native language” and the “target language” and drew the required data largely from intuitions and impressionistic observations. This study was conducted on the basis of the following observations: (1) to...

How to Teach The Suprasegmentals of English To Farsi-speakers Learning English as a Foreign Language

An Overview of Vocabulary Learning Strategies in English as a Foreign Language

Researchers in the area of EFL learning have tried to put the way(s) by which EFL learners learnEnglish vocabulary into some frames and present them as strategies. This paper reviewsdescriptive research on vocabulary learning strategies in English as a foreign language. Thereview focuses on common strategies that learners use in vocabulary learning such as dictionarystrategies, note-taking stra...

University Students’ Perception of Demotivating Factors in Learning English as a Foreign Language

Demotivation is a relatively new topic in the field of second or foreign language acquisition which is in need of more rigorous research. In this regard, the present study was an attempt to investigate demotivating factors in learning English as a foreign language in an Iranian context. To this end, 382 Persian learners of English were selected through stratified clustering sampling procedure t...