Teacher training programs in EFL contexts pursue the goal of promoting teaching skills and critical dispositions in prospective and experienced teachers and their ability to reflect on and enhance their mediating roles to maximize learning outcomes. Yet, discrepancies in teachers’ roles during and after the programs are not uncommon and accentuate the need to assess outcomes. This quasi-experim...

This study compared the use of strategies rereading, highlighting, and note-taking on levels comprehension, retention, learning from L2 texts. Nineteen intermediate students English (L2) participated in study. In phase 1, they studied three expository texts English, each with support a different strategy. After reading, answered an immediate recall true/false statements. Phase 2 took place week...

This study aimed to investigate the effects of Systemic Theoretical Instruction (STI), grounded in Socio-cultural Theory and proposed by Gal’perin, on developing Iranian EFL learners’ knowledge of English tense-aspect system. To this end, two low-intermediate classes, including 24 and 21 language learners aged between 12-19, were taught the distinction between simple past and present perfect te...