there is insufficient rigorous research examining which features of efl/esl learners’ writing can be improved through their awareness/knowledge of collocation. this study, therefore, addressed this issue and examined the effect of this awareness on iranian efl learners’ writing performance with respect to the specific features of each writing sub-component (i.e., content, organization, vocabula...

this paper reports the results of a study designed to investigate the interrelationship of foreign language reading anxiety (flra), reading proficiency (rp) and text feature awareness (tfa). the aim was to focus on how foreign language reading anxiety and text feature awareness are related and how, in turn, they affect students reading proficiency. that is, it south to determine how these three...

The effects different awareness-raising techniques might have on language learners’ performance have been studied by many researchers. The present study specifically focused on improving EFL learners’ oral narrative task performance in terms of accuracy, fluency and complexity by awareness raising through semantic fields. The participants in the study included 40 intermediate learners whose ini...