the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of task repetition on accuracy of iranian efl learners ’speaking ability. in order to achieve this purpose, a null hypothesis was developed: there is no statistically significant difference between accuracy speaking ability in iranian efl learners by use of task repetition. ; of course i should mention that, beside this null hypothesis, an...

Introduction: citizenship behaviors not only prevent some anomalies such as dishonesty but also improve students' academic performance. Considering that the learning environment, in addition to paying attention to scientific activities, encourages friendly interaction and participation between students and other members,  so ,this study aims to investigate the relationship between the learning ...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate the barriers to learning in view of students of Ahvaz University of Medical Sciences (AUMS). Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 230 undergraduate and graduate students of AUMS. A 35-item researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect the data. Result: The mean and standard deviation of the barriers to lear...

abstract this study aimed at investigating the effect of bilingual teaching of cognate words (persian-english) on iranian upper intermediate efl learners’ knowledge of lexical development. for this purpose,100 subjects participated in this study out of which 40 learners were selected for this study and they were assigned into two groups, control and experimental. cross-language cognates (wor...

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

The purpose of this study was accreditation and ranking of skill and knowledge components for teachers in order to use communication and information technology from curriculum planners and experts as well as faculty members’ viewpoint in Ministry of Education. This was descriptive survey using attribution analysis. Statistical population included 134 faculty members of educational sciences in s...