this paper summarizes the educational implications of current research on cognitive neuroscience for foreign-language learning to provide an overview of myths and realities in this appealing area of research. although the potential benefits of neuroscientific research into language acquisition are great, there are a number of popular myths that none of which are supported by scientific evidence...

it is argued that language learning is regarded as the cornerstone of human existence. the widespread use of english as an international language makes it highly important in the world. it is no more working as the status of language of the elite class or the educated class of the society such as professors, rather it is working as an instrument to bring success in life. nowadays, teachers need...

this study reports on the findings of a genre teaching course for developing academic writing of a class of efl students in iran. the information report genre was taught in a cyclical way of teaching and learning, which was started from ‘setting the context’ and ‘deconstruction’ of prototype information report genre, and continued with ‘joint construction’, ‘independent construction’, and final...

to testify the contrastive properties of two combinations of emotional intelligence (ei) index including emotional vs. cognitive subscale dyads among some one hundred and twenty university students (52 male & 68 female), this study was carried out to predict their success in their general english (ge) course during one academic semester. datasets were obtained through a self-report bar's o...

with the advent of the distinctive characterization of academic languagein the past thirty years, there has been atremendous move in the esl/efl world towardsformulatinginstructional techniques compatible with the very nature of these skills. as a part of this effort, this studyinvestigated the role of content and language integrated learning (clil) approach in achieving these ends. the study e...