Motivation is considered a complex and challenging issue in teaching, especially second language courses. Many studies have been conducted about motivational strategies teaching English language, however, the research that focuses on essay writing still rare. Therefore, this aims to describe effect of students’ proficiency their response its implementation. These include Creating Basic Motivati...

Saudi students studying English as a foreign language often do poorly in their courses, and despite growing number of studies on this issue the root causes have remained mystery. To gain more comprehensive perspective, study investigated underlying reasons for EFL learners performing by including all major stakeholders. This attempts to find out potential low performance learners. The researche...

The present study examined the impact of visualization and graphic organizers as pre-listening strategies on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ cognitive, behavioral, and emotional engagement and their listening comprehension. To do so, this study was carried out in three listening classes at Islamic Azad University of Mashhad. The participants included 80 junior EFL university stude...

abstract genre-based approach has been the focus of interest in the teaching of language since the mid1980s. genre is defined in terms of the use of language in conventionalized communicative settings. the present study made an attempt to scrutinize the effects of genre-based pedagogy on iranian pre-intermediate efl leaners' reading comprehension as well as the interaction between their re...

In this study it was hypothesized that field dependence or independence would introduce systematic variance into Iranian EFL learners’ overall and task-specific performance on task-based reading comprehension tests. One thousand, seven hundred, forty-three freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior students, all majoring in English at various Iranian universities and colleges, took the Group Embed...