This research is a quasi-experimental study investigating the effect of different types of teacher Written Corrective Feedback (WCF) on Iranian EFL learners’ writing accuracy in using two functions of English articles (the first mention and anaphoric reference) and simple past tense (regular and irregular). Ninety-four Iranian learners of English were assigned into three experimental groups of ...

This study explored the acquisition of Arabic and English relative clauses by L2 learners. It examined extent to which Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy (NPAH) (Keenan Comrie 1977) Markedness Differential Hypothesis (MDH) (Eckman account for pronouns Twenty Arabic-speaking learners twenty English-speaking were selected. To this end, four different tasks used in regard, namely Sentence Combina...

The current study investigates the influence of phonological neighborhoods on the accuracy of speech production in aphasia by examining errors produced in both spontaneous and structured speech tasks. Characteristics of the phonological neighborhoods of spontaneously produced aphasic errors are compared to the neighborhood characteristics of correctly produced targets in a picture description t...

Different methods of language teaching have tried to help EFL learners to develop good language skills based on their various perspectives. Research findings have underscored the effect of using task types in promoting language skills in terms of accuracy in written discourse. Therefore, this study set out to investigate whether there is an evidence of correct use of simple past tense (Accuracy...

Six experiments investigate syntactic priming online via a picture description task in which participants produce target sentences whose initial phrase is syntactically similar or dissimilar to that of the prime sentence produced on the previous trial. In the ®rst experiment it is shown that a syntactically related prime sentence speeds onset latencies to a subsequent target sentence by approxi...

siniya, al-buhturä«'s famous poem for the deseription of ivan kasra is a descriptive masterpiece in arabic poetry , the most beautiful part being his description of “the antioch battle”, an awe-inspiring picture depicting the victory of iranian over the romans. this picture inspired him with wonder, then he reproduced it in his poem, so much so that when readers read it they can visual...