The demands of the changing world impose on learners the need to become autonomous readers. This places a responsibility on the shoulders of the teachers to develop an approach to teaching reading which will help readers become independent strategic ones. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of teaching reading strategies on the development of reading comprehension of Iranian ...

This study investigates the relation between EFL (English as a foreign language) learners’ autonomy, their identity styles, and their writing ability and it aims to show which independent variables have higher predicting power on variances in writing. To this end, 60 Iranian university EFL students at the language center of the researchers’ institution were selected to participate in this study...

This study aimed to investigate the effects of extensive reading strategy training (ERST) on autonomous learning strategies (ALSs) that English language learners use in an EFL context. Sixty-one undergraduate first-year social science university students participated study. These samples were assigned two modalities: a control group, which involved 31 students, and experimental 30 students. Dur...

In spite of the highly beneficial applications of corpus linguistics in language pedagogy, it has not found its way into mainstream EFL. The major reasons seem to be the teachers’ lack of training and the unavailability of resources, especially computers in language classes. Phrasal verbs have been shown to be a problematic area of learning English as a foreign language due to their semantic op...

The Internet provides learners with unprecedented opportunities; student can not only share the learning resources, but also overcome the obstacles of time and space. The new teaching model make full use of the advantages of modern information technology, especially the network multimedia technology, so that English teaching has been developed toward the direction as autonomous learning and col...

We seek an AI agent that is fast enough to keep up with debates between humans and and can offer suggestions regarding what is the next most important issue to explore. To assess the merits of treatment learning for such an agent, this kind of learning was applied to three models of a mythical (but plausible) development project building software for autonomous systems. The models were the COCO...

Learning strategies play leading roles on students’ understanding information and solving problems. Not being aware of learning strategies and their use may lead to students’ failure. Furthermore, conducting research on learning strategies is difficult as they are not observable directly and selecting a reliable method is an issue. Accordingly, this paper aims to investigate the significant con...