The increasing advance of mobile devices and wireless technologies has generated great interest in ubiquitous learning (u-learning) among academia, practitioners, and policy makers. However, design elements that incorporate learning styles and learning strategies into u-learning system applications in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) education are still limited. There are two objectives in t...

To draw EFL teachers’ attention to pronunciation difficulties resulting from L1 phonotactic constraints, this study examined the hypothesis that certain syllable structures could cause more mispronunciation than segmental sounds for Mandarin-speaking EFL learners. A 145-word reading passage was developed with a total of 30 target sounds, which included the problematic syllable structures that e...

During the past several years, the importance of practicum as a vital proportion of the preservice teacher education program has been increasingly emphasized. There have been a number of initiatives for supporting preservice teachers. Among these, peer based relationship is increasingly emerged as an innovative strategy to provide additional support to preservice teachers. This paper reports on...

This study investigated the EFL reading goals of Grade 11 students across public and non-public schools in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. To this end, quantitative data were collected from 556 (375 public and 181 non-public) students via pre-tested structured questionnaire and analyzed into means, medians, standard deviations, ranges and Mann-Whitney U test scores. The results show that no...

This study investigated the effects of partial dictation on the listening comprehension (LC) ability of Iranian intermediate EFL learners. Two homogeneous groups of intermediate EFL learners at the Abrar Language Institute in Qa’emshahr were chosen. Each group consisted of 30 female intermediate EFL students. One of the groups was chosen as the experimental group (EG), and the other as the cont...

The genes egl-1, ced-9, ced-4, and ced-3 play major roles in programmed cell death in Caenorhabditis elegans. To identify genes that have more subtle activities, we sought mutations that confer strong cell-death defects in a genetically sensitized mutant background. Specifically, we screened for mutations that enhance the cell-death defects caused by a partial loss-of-function allele of the ced...

According to Teacher Education Curriculum Development Document (TECDD) of Farhangiyan University, teacher professional competencies include Content Knowledge (CK), Pedagogical Knowledge (PK), Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) and General Knowledge (GK). Of these competencies, CK and PCK are specific to teachers of each major while PK and GK are common among all majors. This study was an attem...

This is a quanti-litative case study that parts of theory sociocultural principles applied to Second Language (SL) and Foreign Language (FL) Acquisition and studies in Computers in Education in order to investigate the effects of a pedagogical agent's (PA) mediation with specific mediation strategies in English as a foreign language (EFL) collaborative learning in a virtual environment. From th...

The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of providing background information on students’ discourse of “Before Their Time” and “The Lottery” texts. The writer assigned these two short stories at intermediate readability level to 40 freshman and Sophomore students, chosen at random and divided into four groups. Each group was exposed to two treatment conditions. The two conditions we...

This study focused primarily on an investigation of how four reading strategies training (cognitive, metacognitive, compensation, and testing strategies) affect the development of Taiwanese EFL learners’ reading comprehension. Specifically, this study aimed to identify different reading strategy uses among good and poor readers. One hundred and ten seniors (27 males and 83 females) majoring in ...