plagiarism is considered to be a very serious offence in most academic communities, particularly among western academia. there has been much discussion regarding the influential factors which result in plagiarism, such as ignorance and cultural attitudes. in the case of efl/esl students, it has been suggested that acts of plagiarism are often committed because students lack the proficiency to p...

Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) represents an innovative method of language instruction where learners acquire skills indirectly by engaging in purposeful tasks. Despite its popularity English as a Foreign (TEFL) circles, particularly the realms reading and writing, there has been notable scarcity research on TBLT concerning interplay between theoretical concepts practical application, doma...

Introducing effective approaches and providing equal opportunities for all language learners at any level of language knowledge to learn successfully seems to be an asset. In this study, the role of employing Partnership Approach (PA) to teach speaking to undergraduate EFL students through Streaming/Homogeneous-Grouping of the learners in Mixed-Ability classrooms was examined. A quasi-experimen...

the present study was an attempt to investigate the washback effect of the tefl ma university entrance exam on the teaching and learning behaviors of students and professors. the tefl ma uee consists of three sub-components that deal with particular aspects of applied linguistics; each of these parts measures the participants’ knowledge in linguistics, language testing, and teaching methodology...

Following Swales’ (1981) definition of genre analysis many scholars have attempted to characterize good academic writing; however, this can be difficult and worrying for non-native writers. Since a well-written abstract encourages readers more effectively, the present study intended to find differences in the rhetorical structures of abstracts by TEFL students from the University of Tehran (UT)...

Although statistics is an important compulsory course in a wide variety of disciplines, the vast majority students including TEFL postgraduate find it frightening and difficult to understand, thus suffer from underachievement. As result, specific kind anxiety called statistical emerges that requires immediate attention. To date, large growing body research has focused on exploring different asp...