Second language learning starts with and using its words. When learners know how to use the basic or common words of target language, they can communicate better thus master receptive productive skills language. In light this interpretation, English instructors started literary works expand learners’ vocabulary achieve outcomes. regard, short stories for acquisition instruction is an effective ...

In recent years, the studies on literacy and reading have been taken seriously. A lot of researchers mention that t he key factor to improve the students’ reading ability is word recognition. If teachers realize the ability of students’ vocabulary, they can use remedial teaching to help the sub-standard students. This study uses the back-propagation neural network to es tablish an experimental ...

This study intended to inspect the possible effects of teaching English lexical clusters on speaking accuracy of Iranian EFL intermediate learners. Also it examined the influence of gender on the effect of teaching English lexical clusters on speaking accuracy of the same learners. 41 male and female EFL intermediate learners, studying  English at intermediate level at Zabankade Institute in Te...

It is obvious that vocabulary lies in the center of language learning and communication. This issue shows that vocabulary has a vital role in mastering all the skills of a language. Vocabulary Learning Strategies (VLS) facilitate the process of learning lexical items. The present study investigated the role of two specific strategy types in vocabulary learning, including rote and contextualized...

This research study aimed at exploring the relationship between vocabulary learning strategies and vocabulary size of 125 undergraduate English Language Teaching students at Eastern Mediterranean University. This research study was a correlational survey study of descriptive nature. The major findings of this study were as follows. First, the findings indicated that most of the ELT students ade...

reading is one of the most important basic skills for the growth of children’s intrinsic abilities which was taken into consideration by many researchers. inability in reading usually brings about many problems in learning for students. this paper reports the result of a two-groups with pre-test and post-test semi-experimental design which was done in elementary schools of mahidasht region of k...