Two-way immersion, where language majority and language minority children develop bilingualism together, has grown phenomenally in the U.S, even while traditional bilingual education comes increasingly under attack in the current political climate. Two-way immersion is much less threatening to critics who resent having to support special programs for language minority children and who fear that...

this study deals with teaching the verbal meaning networks in second/foreign language, and evaluates the effects of this kind of teaching on the learning process of foreign persian language learners. for this purpose, a pretest was carried out among 50 foreign language learners, from which 30 individuals were selected for this research based on their scores. the subjects were divided into two g...

With the wide use of digit, internet and multimedia, Multimodal foreign language teaching is becoming a brand-new teaching model. Recent years, there has been a great number of experts and scholars doing research on foreign language teaching using Multimodal theories. However, he application of Multimodal theories in English vocabulary teaching is very rare to see. Therefore, the author tries t...

AbstractThe interference of the native language in acquiring a foreign language is unavoidable. In an attempt to explore the phenomenon why this occurs, the study was conducted in English as a foreign language writing. The study also investigated how the native language interference occurred in the writing process. In fact, this qualitative study explored the reasons and the process of na...

High-variability phonetic training is effective in the acquisition of foreign language sounds. Previous studies have largely focused on small sets of contrasts, and have not controlled for the quantity of prior or simultaneous exposure to new sounds. The current study examined the effectiveness of phonetic training in full-inventory foreign language consonant acquisition by listeners with no pr...

AbstractThe interference of the native language in acquiring a foreign language is unavoidable. In an attempt to explore the phenomenon why this occurs, the study was conducted in English as a foreign language writing. The study also investigated how the native language interference occurred in the writing process. In fact, this qualitative study explored the reasons and the process of na...

abstract literature review indicates that an effective and good teacher has an important role in students' performances and their success. pivotal roles of teachers may affect students’ attitudes and motivations to language learning. improving the field of foreign language teaching and learning without improving the qualities of efl teachers seems impossible. this attempt, at first hand, r...

arabic languages is not a foreign language for us as iranins is the language of our religion and islamic culture. thus to protect our religion and culture. we should learn it. because arabic is not our native language. so one way to learn it is through the comparison and contrast of structure and grammatical points of arabic and persian. this issue is very helpful in translating a text. this ar...

Integrating task and data parallelism in a language framework has attracted considerable attention. Both the Fx language at Carnegie Mellon University and High Performance Fortran standard have adopted a simple model of task parallelism that allows dynamic assignment of processor subgroups to tasks in the application. However, the tasks must be written in the native language, i.e Fx or HPF. Lar...