The aim of the present study is threefold. The first is that whether there is any difference betweendifferent proficiency level language learners 'use of spatial prepositions. The Second aim is toreveal that if the native language of the participants has any effect on applying the appropriateprepositions and also to find which spatial preposition is difficult to acquire. The present paperexamin...

Promoting communicative interactions, while simultaneously drawing students’ attention to language form, is considered as a potentially significant area of research in second language acquisition. This study focuses on the effect of transcribing task, as an autonomous noticing activity, on intermediate and advanced EFL learners' grammatical accuracy. The study was conducted in two advanced and ...

One of the most important skills to acquire in learning a foreign language is speaking. It however, viewed as one difficult. This study involved observation non-English major students department Nanjing Tech University. Its aim was assess critically factors that affect speaking performances Chinese EFL Learners, find out their motivational levels and explore ways improve proficiency. Two survey...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the mental representation of cognate and noncognate translation pairs in languages with different scripts to test the prediction of dual lexicon model (gollan, forster, & frost, 1997). two groups of persian-speaking english language learners were tested on cognate and noncognate translation pairs in persian-english and english-persian directions ...

     The objective of the present study was to identify and examine the influence of instructional tools, namely, games, songs and stories on young Iranian EFL learners’ achievement utilizing a quantitative design. To conduct the study 65 Iranian EFL learners, divided into an experimental group and a control group, learning English at Navid English Institute, Shiraz, Iran, participated in the s...

As it is known formative assessment focuses on both the learning process and learner's performance. In this study digital traditional speaking tests were utilized comparatively to evaluate 52 upper-intermediate EFL learners' English language skills. The was designed as a mixed-method. quantitative data collected via achievement which had been administered in tests. qualitative findings with stu...