this study aimed to design a questionnaire including characteristics of successful iranian efl teachers and substantiate its construct validity. based on the guidelines laid down by efl professors (n=5), teachers (n=11), learners (n=46), and suwandee's (1995) questionnaire about the characteristics of effective language teachers, a questionnaire (likert scale) consisting of 47 items, was d...

abstractthe interference of the native language in acquiring a foreign language is unavoidable. in an attempt to explore the phenomenon why this occurs, the study was conducted in english as a foreign language writing. the study also investigated how the native language interference occurred in the writing process. in fact, this qualitative study explored the reasons and the process of native l...

: This study investigated the impact of audio-visual input enhancement teaching techniques on improving English as Foreign Language (EFL) learnersˈ collocation learning as well as their accuracy concerning collocation use in narrative writing. In addition, it compared the impact and efficiency of audio-visual input enhancement in two learning contexts, namely traditional and mo...

the aim of this study was to describe and find out motivational english language learning strategies through computers among iranian efl learners and find out how learners’ motivations change towards english language learning through computers.the mixed method approach (quantitative and qualitative) was employed in this study. a total of 84 (out of 130) female freshman university learners from ...

learner autonomy has become the area of interest by many researchers of foreign language learning in the recent years. however, few studies have been done concerning the case of kurdish learners` autonomy in learning languages. for this reason, the current study addresses this gap. it intends to investigate to what extent kurdish learners are autonomous in learning english language. the study i...

One major aspect of successful language acquisition is the ability to generalize from properties of experienced items to novel items. We present a computational study of artificial language learning, where the generalization patterns of three generative models are compared to those of human learners across 10 experiments. Results suggest that an explicit representation of word categories is the...