abstract the present study investigated the effects of task types and involvement load hypothesis on incidental learning of 10 target words (tws) in junior high schools (jhss) in givi, ardabil. the tasks deployed in this study were two input-based tasks (reading plus dictionary use with an involvement index of 3, and reading plus gap-fill task with an involvement index of 2), and one output-ba...

this study was conducted to investigate the impact of podcasts as a learning and teaching tool on iranian efl learners’ motivation for listening as well as on their listening comprehension ability. the study also investigated the learners’ perception towards listening to podcasts and examined whether the learners were likely to accept podcasts. out of fifty-five intermediate learners studying e...

abstract the present study was an attempt to investigate the effect of critical thinking on writing ability of 60 iranian intermediate efl learners studying at chenar language institute in khuzestan, iran. to this end, the participants of the study were selected based on their performance in an pet test, a cornell critical thinking test form x and a pre-test of writing. the participants un...

abstract this study examines the effect of teaching lexical inferencing strategies on developing reading comprehension skill of iranian advanced efl learners. participants were female students of meraj and shokouh institudes of garmsar a quasi-experimental design using two intact advanced classes of efl students at meraj and shokouh institutes. as the first step, a general toefl proficiency te...

این پژوهش سعی بر آن داشت تا سه کتاب رایج آموزش زبان انگلیسی در موسسات اصفهان را مورد ارزیابی قرار دهد. به این منظور، ابتدا پیمایشی انجام شد که نشان داد سه کتاب four corners،top notchو interchange بیشتر از دیگرکتابهای موجود در بازار مورد استقبال و استفاده این موسسات قرار گرفته اند. پس از انتخاب کتابها برای ارزیابی، این پژوهش در دو مرحله انجام گرفت. در مرحله اول، برای تعیین ملاک های ارزیابی سه کت...