The present study investigated the effect of pragmatic eliciting tasks on EFL pre-intermediate learners speaking proficiency. Thus this study aimed at comparing the English language learners who practiced pragmatic eliciting tasks and the ones who used traditional speaking activities such as questions and answers, discussion, etc. In doing so, 40 learners out of 80 were selected through Oxford ...

The current study was planned to investigate the interference of native language in English word recognition and integration skills L1 speakers French Persian. participants were 48 intermediate upper Persian French-speaking EFL learners studying VUB ULB universities Brussels, Belgium. All all, based on results ANCOVA, there a strong positive relationship between learners' their L1(first languag...

at the pre-test stage, one of the important stages in language testing, items of the test are given to some language learners who are at same level as the target test takers, and through the statistical analysis of their responses, the information such as item facility and item discrimination are gained. also, unreliable and problematic items are distinguished and amended. this research tries t...

The aim of the current study was to investigate whether L2 minimal pairs practice would have an effect on Iranian intermediate EFL learners’ pronunciation accuracy. For this purpose, 30 Iranian intermediate EFL learners at Simin institute participated in the experiment of the study. The selection of subjects was done from among 150 EFL learners at intermediate level. In order to make subj...

one of the problems of learners that often impairs learning a second language is syntactic errors. therefore, the present study investigates the syntactic errors of arab speakers learning persian. this research is based on contrastive analysis approach. in this article, interlingual syntactic errors committed in learner’s writings are studied, using field method and through a content analysis o...

  This study investigated the effect of gender and type of written corrective feedback (WCF) on Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners’ writing. Four intact classes were assigned to experimental and two intact classes to control groups. The learners were homogenized using a pre-test which was followed by sixteen sessions lasting one hour and forty five minutes. After receiving instruction on how...

this study sought to investigate the effect of cooperative learning on efl learners’ creativity and motiva- tion. accordingly, 66 pre-intermediate female learners were selected among 90 through their performance on a piloted sample preliminary english test. learners were assigned into two control and experimental group. the abedi-schumaker creativity test (act) and the attitude/motivation test ...