The main purpose of the present quasi-experimental study was twofold; its first purpose was to investigate the effects of using of two approaches namely; genre and process on EFL learners’ accuracy, fluency, and complexity in written task production. Secondly, it attempted to investigate the effects of mentioned approaches on EFL learners’ attitude toward writing skill. to this end, 60 learners...

This study examined the transportation effects of alcohol consequence narratives varying in source (written by the narrative protagonist vs. protagonist's partner) and type of heath consequence (physical or emotional). Additionally, this study examined the role of narrative transportation and cognitive and discrete affective responses in the persuasion process. In this study, 501 students of a ...

in this study, the researchers investigated a critical aspect of efl/esl writing pedagogy-the impact of teacher written commentary on student writer’s earlier drafts. compositions of 80 iranian undergraduate english majors were commented on using a trio of imperatives, statements, and questions on both content and form. overall, the results indicated that the comments in the imperative form hel...

This paper, as part of an ongoing study, reports a qualitative case study in investigating pre-writing activities among three English as Foreign language (EFL) learners in an online community via a facebook group. The data were collected from the learners’ interactional exchanges, observation notes of their interaction and responses to online written interview questions. Based on a qualitative ...

The present study aimed at furthering the understanding of the potential effects of e-learner characteristics on e-learner satisfaction in an EFL context. Specifically, it examined the collective impact of computer anxiety, computer-mediated communication (CMC) apprehension, metacognitive self-regulation strategy use, mastery goal orientation, and performance goal orientation on EFL e-learner s...

Research background: The effectiveness of Corrective feedback has been a controversial issue and thus central part second language writing instruction worldwide.Gap in knowledge Purpose the study: It argued that provision written corrective can affect complexity text negatively, is not sufficiently investigated. Therefore, this studyinvestigated effects two types comprehensive strategies: direc...

This study examines the correct and incorrect use of local cohesive ties cohesion errors in written narratives eleven- to twelve-year-old Spanish learners English as a Foreign Language (EFL) at different proficiency levels. The was carried out with pairs who collaboratively wrote narrative text response picture prompt. young learners’ texts were examined identify their four categories: lexical,...

conclusions the current study showed that poorness and unreliability of “al-kafi” narratives is a vain thought. hence, it is recommended to perform clinical trial studies (at least) on accurate/authentic narratives, and also consider them as reputable and valid narratives, along with traditional medicine references. results from all narratives of the book “al-kafi” (pillars, furoo, and rouzat a...