USE COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH TO LEARNING 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...

Towards a Corpus-based Approach to Modelling Language Production of Foreign Language Learners in Communicative Contexts

This paper discusses linguistic annotation issues, essential to a corpus-based approach to modelling the language use of foreign language learners in various contexts. We focus on learners of English and describe the corpora we use as well as the linguistic approach underlying their development. We present a scheme for describing grammatical choices and meaning components expressed in texts pro...

Language Learning Strategy Use and Prediction of Foreign Language Proficiency Among Iranian EFL Learners

The purpose of this study was twofold. Firstly, it attempted to investigate whether language learning strategies (LLSs) can predict foreign language (FL) proficiency. Secondly, it examined what kind of LLSs Iranian learners of English use more frequently in FL institutes. To do so, 112 intermediate Iranian EFL learners participated in the study. Oxford’s Strategy Inventory for Language Learning...

Applied Linguistic Approach to Language Learning Strategies (A Critical Review)

From applied linguistic point of view, the fundamental question facing the language teachers, methodologists and course designers is which procedure is more effective in FL/SL: learning to use or using to learn? Definitely, in order to be a competent language user, knowledge of language system is necessary, but it is not sufficient to be a successful language user. That is why there was a gradu...

1 On Knowing a Language : Communicative Competence , Proficiency , and the Standards for Foreign Language Learning