This study aimed to investigate the relative effectiveness of consciousness-raising tasks and structure-based production tasks in comparison with the traditional teaching in learning comparative and superlative forms, following a task-based approach to teaching English grammar. To this end, from among 82 female elementary-level high school students having taken a Solutions Placement Test (2010)...

The article deals with teaching grammar on English for specific purpose classes at those higher educational institutions that do not have languages as their majors. author points out textbooks in purposes contain any materials or cover just main paying little attention to practice. Some of them has references where students can learn some basic information about structures but there are no prac...

This study was designed to investigate the effect of grammar and vocabulary pre-teaching, as two types of pre-reading activities, on the Iranian EFL learners’ reading comprehension from a schema–theoretic perspective. The sample consisted of 90 female students studying at pre-university centers of Isfahan.  The subjects were randomly divided into three equal-in-number groups. They participated ...

arabic language instruction in iran has always relied on cognitive factors, and has been based on grammar-translation method. consequently, issues such as arabic learner's and teacher's mental processes during learning and teaching, metacognitive factors, interlocutors' characteristics and the conversation setting, learner's information processing procedure, etc. have never ...