This study examined the effects of task complexity on written narrative production under different task complexity conditions by EFL learners at different proficiency levels. Task complexity was manipulated along Robinson’s (2001b) proposed task complexity dimension of Here-and-Now (simple) vs. There-and-Then (complex) in. Accordingly, three specific measures of the written narratives were targ...

this study examined the effects of aural and written prompts under two planning conditions (i.e. pre-task planning and no planning) on complexity, accuracy, and fluency of test takers' writing production. forty learners in an english institute, who had already been classified as intermediate according to the oxford placement test, were assigned to two planning conditions (i.e. no planning and p...

we live in a world,that is based on these conflicts! this is contrary to the broad meaning of the rituals of ancient persia, even though in zoroastrianism this conflict(spenta mino and ankrah mino) have established the creations .lion and bull dispute, one of the oldest iranian art motifs are used. the authors choose the baisonghor’s kalila wa dimna and the scene at persepolis:killing the bull ...

This quasi-experimental study set out to examine the effect of peer corrective feedback on feedback givers and receivers in L2 writing. The forms in focus were a/an, the, and the past tense.The study was conducted in an EFL classroom setting with 45 learners of English in three writing classes which served as the feedback givers, receivers, and the control group.  Over four sessions of treatmen...

Various individual differences, including ambiguity tolerance (AT), have gained momentum because of the influence they can exert on the process and product of learning, and thereby, on various aspects of the learner’s interlanguage system such as accuracy of oral speech. The present study was undertaken to examine the extent to which Iranian EFL learners’ AT was significantly correlated with th...

The linguistic input a child receives in the first years of life is foundational for cognitive and language development. In a corpus analysis, the vocabulary in picture books was richer and more extensive than that found in child-directed and even adult-directed speech. The grammar and complexity of these communication media, measured by reading grade level, indicated that picture books average...

Watanabe, Náñez & Sasak (2001) demonstrated that the perceptual learning of task-irrelevant items was enhanced under conditions when attentional resources were diverted away from the irrelevant stimuli. However, the current study suggests that when attention is depleted, recognition for task-irrelevant items is impaired in a subsequent recognition task. Participants were presented with a stream...