the importance of vocabulary learning has been underlined in the field of english for academic purposes (eap) because non-english majors who require reading english texts in their fields of study have to expand their english vocabulary knowledge much more efficiently than ordinary esl/efl learners. since academic vocabulary instruction in iranian universities is realized through the use of gene...

So far junior high school students have dealt with obsolete English speaking topics in textbooks developed by the MOET. They are often fed up lessons, and thus their skill fails to improve after many years studying at school. Stimulated this reality, current study was carried out investigate effect of applying “small talk as warming-up technique” EFL classrooms on students’ improvement. A sched...

In countries where textbooks are considered as the main source of teaching/learning process, textbook evaluation seems to be inevitable and necessary. The current study aimed at evaluating the new English textbook entitled “Vision 1”, developed for the Iranian first grade high school students. To achieve this goal, two groups of participants took part in the study. They consisted of 30 teachers...

the phenomenon of how tests influence teaching and learning is commonly described as “wash back”in language instruction. literature indicates that wash back effect is a complex concept that becomeseven more complicated under different interpretations of the wash back phenomenon in teaching andlearning. in the present study, some definitions of wash back and its two major types were introduced,a...

Up to now, many studies have been done to show the origin of attitudes and their relationships with behaviors or actions. Some of those works have focused on students' attitudes and some have introduced the various contexts of language teaching and learning. These studies were enough to give a new impetus for conducting the present investigation. This paper investigated the teachers' attitudes ...

In order to help our students learn English more effectively, we teachers of English need to place an equal emphasis both on designing suitable teaching materials and making use of effective teaching methodologies. Of the two types of teaching materials; namely authentic and non-authentic materials that are being used nowadays in schools and universities in most EFL countries, the use of the fo...