This mixed-methods study investigated English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners’ perceptions of task difficulty and their use metacognitive strategies in completing integrated speaking tasks as empirical evidence for the effects instruction. A total 130 university students were invited to complete four answer a strategy inventory self-rating scale. sub-sample eight participated subsequent in...

The impetus for conducting the present study came from Thornbury's (2005) approach to teach speaking in which he claimed that awareness-raising techniques, along with appropriation strategies, facilitate the process of teaching and learning speaking. Therefore, the present study attempted to explore the impact of the appropriation-based syllabus to teach speaking by using chunks-on-card...

Linguistic/cultural differences of learners’ native language with English as a foreign language, gender and English proficiency level are among those numerous variables which affect English learning and its quality in Iranian context. The present study was an attempt to illuminate the effects of these variables on performing integrative approach of general English tests (cloze test and recall t...

But we still have a long way to go. There are many who still maintain that Endometriosis "can be cured by pregnancy or hysterectomy," and who believe that the disease only occurs in and on the reproductive organs. Though referred to as "uncommon," two specific manifestations of the disease are becoming more prevelant. This recognition may be due in part to the practitioner's increased understan...