Greeting in English as a Foreign Language: A Problem for Speakers of Chinese

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...

the effectiveness of strategy-based instruction in teaching english as a second or foreign language: a meta-analysis of experimental studies

a large number of single research studies on the effects of strategy-based instruction (sbi) in teaching english as a foreign or second language has been conducted so far. however, the lack of a comprehensive meta-analysis targeting the effectiveness of english language sbi is observed. moreover, the findings of experimental studies regarding the context of the english language, proficiency lev...

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

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

the major objective of the present writer is to survey some of the problems that iranian learners of english encounter as to the use of english stress patterns and intonation. it seems rather obvious that the main source of difficulty in the use of english stress and intonation is the interference comingfrom the learners' mother tongue, i.e. persian. the present writer also tries to offer ...