Samaneh Shafeie

MA student in TEFL, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran

[ 1 ] - Game-based Teaching of Stress Placement on Multi-syllabic English Words

Accurate pronunciation is an important component of language ability and the main outward linguistic sign of whether someone is a native speaker of a language or not. An area of particular difficulty for Persian-speaking learners of English, which may cause 'foreign accent' or misunderstanding in speaking, is placement of stress on multi-syllable words. Game-based pronunciation teaching can be ...

[ 2 ] - Studying the Effect of Retrieval Direction during Reading on Productive and Receptive Knowledge of Vocabulary

Retrieval tasks provide learners with an opportunity to focus both on meaning and on form. There are four different retrieval directions. The present study aimed to identify the optimal direction of recall type retrievals during reading and to investigate the outcomes of each one. Forty-eight intermediate EFL learners took part in the study. One of the experimental groups was provided with the ...

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