this study attempted to explore if teaching english collocations through two different modes of awareness-raising and input flooding has any possible differential effect on immediate retention as well as retention in a delayed assessment. it also compared the possible differential effect of teaching english collocations implicitly and explicitly on actively using the items in writing. m...

dynamic assessment according to vygotskys sociocultural theory, states that instruction and assessment are interrelated. using static forms of assessment with second and foreign language students could do more harm than good. many teachers neglect to take account of the complexity involved in learning a second or foreign language and often wonder why learning of a language take so long. thi...

این تحقیق تاثیر آموزش استراتژیهای یادگیری لغت را روی collocation مورد مطالعه قرار داده است. 55 نفر از دانشجویان سال اول در این مطالعه شرکت داشته اند.تست آمارنشان داده است که دانشجویان سابقه اجتماعی و تحصیلی مشابه داشته اند. آنها به گروههای الف ( گروه کنترل) و ب ( گروه تجربی) تقسیم شده بودند.محقق در یک دوره چهار هفته ای به گروه کنترل، روش آموزش لغت به صورت سنتی و به گروه تجربی آموزش استراتژیهای ...

in chapter one we will describe definitions and preliminary results to provide the global context of our own results to be presented in detail in the subsequent chapters in chapter two we consider degree-one maps of the circle and we study their rotation set. our main result in this chapter says that if the map is topologically mixing then its rotation interval is nontrivial (that is, not reduc...

the current study aimed at investigating the relationship between motivation and test preparation strategies (tpss) used by iranian pre-university students in their preparation period for the university entrance exam (uee). due to the importance of uee in iran, this study also attempted to show its impact on these two important variables. to this end, 100 pre-university students in an iranian p...

this study was conducted to investigate the impact of podcasts as a learning and teaching tool on iranian efl learners’ motivation for listening as well as on their listening comprehension ability. the study also investigated the learners’ perception towards listening to podcasts and examined whether the learners were likely to accept podcasts. out of fifty-five intermediate learners studying e...