Meta-discourse markers are an inevitable part of oral proficiency which improve both the quality and comprehension of learners’ speech. While studies of oral meta-discourse have been conducted since the 1980s in a European or US context, they have remained relatively untouched in Iran. Therefore, this study aimed to seek the impact of both explicit and implicit teaching of formal meta-discourse...

In this study, we examine the Spanish proficiency progress of elementary Spanish-English bilinguals in three types language program models: a dual bilingual education (DLBE) model with 90/10 allocation, DLBE 50/50 and an English as Second Language (ESL) over academic year. domain speaking, individual student characteristics were most predictive progress. For listening reading, time had greatest...

This study attempted to investigate the relationship among learning strategy, autonomy and language proficiency of Chinese university EFL students. To achieve this objective, purposive sampling and cluster sampling methods were used to select 422 non-English major students as participants in three universities, Henan province, China. Oxford’s (1990) Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SIL...

Using a structural equation modeling approach, this study investigates the relationships between second language (L2) oral proficiency and interest in learning target (L2 interest), presence of potential mediating variables (i.e. perceived importance speaking, out-of-class contact with L2 resources). It also examines if interactive noninteractive function differently model. Data were collected ...

this study was an attempt to examine the relationship between iranian efl students’ general knowledge of english and their use of english prepositions. to discover whether there was any sig- nificant relationship between efl university and high school students’ english proficiency level and their performance on a preposition test, three groups of beginning, intermediate, and upper intermediate ...

the present study was an attempt, in the first place, to find out whether there is any relationship between iranian efl learners' multiple intelligences and their language proficiency. the second objective was to explore whether one of intelligences or combination of intelligences are predictors of language proficiency. to this end, 228 subjects of this study were chosen from among 280 eng...

Recently a number of quasi-experimental studies have investigated the potential of a crossmodality transfer of second language competency between real-time, conversational exchange via text and speech (Abrams, 2003; Beauvious, 1998; Kost, 2004; Payne & Whitney, 2002). Payne and Whitney employed Levelt's (1989) model of language production and concepts from working memory as a rationale for a hy...

many factors may be involved in determining why some students are more and some are less proficient in language. this study tried to explore the factors affecting iranian efl learners’ proficiency. 221 students at second, third and fourth year of university, including 50 male and 171 female were selected randomly to participate in the study. a researcher-made questionnaire and a proficiency tes...

the recent increase in the number of publications devoted to teaching the persian language to speakers of other languages and the development of such courses in iran and elsewhere signify a cultural movement. however, one of the shortcomings of this movement pertains to its oblivious stance to persian language proficiency. this paper aims at defining language proficiency bringing its importance...