this study focused on investigating the impact of keeping oral dialogue journals on efl learners’ oral fluency. sixty participants were ed out of 80 undergraduate freshmen who were studying english translation at sanandaj islamic azad university and pre-intermediate students at passargadeh jam language school based on their scores on a piloted proficiency test. they were then randomly divided i...

  This study attempted to investigate whether there was any significant difference between the speaking achievement of learners who were trained by means of audiotaped dialogue journal, dialogue journal writing, or traditional free speech. The participants, 45 male and female students aged between 21 and 32, were selected by random sampling from among free speech classes in an English teaching...

This study investigated the effect of oral dialogue journals on communicative competence of Iranian EFL learners. Participants of this study were 80 students of two Payam-e-Noor Universities who were proved to be homogenous in the communicative competence based on TSE (Test of Spoken English) interview. The participants of one of these universities were considered as the experimental group. The...

this study investigated the effect of oral dialogue journals on communicative competence of iranian efl learners. participants of this study were 80 students of two payam-e-noor universities who were proved to be homogenous in the communicative competence based on tse (test of spoken english) interview. the participants of one of these universities were considered as the experimental group. the...

background: there is a paucity of information about the oral pathology related articles published in a pathology journal. this study aimed to audit the oral pathology related articles published in iranian journal of pathology (iran j pathol)from 2006 to 2015. methods: bibliometric analysis of issues of iran j pathol from 2006 to 2015 was performed using web-based search.the articles published w...

i am delighted to announce completion of the second issue of the new journal of “geopersia”, a product of the new era of replacing the persian language journals with specific english-language ones. our purpose is to provide a journal that offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of issues concerning geology subjects (i.e. sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleontology, petroleum geology, engineering geo...

I am delighted to announce completion of the second issue of the new journal of “Geopersia”, a product of the new era of replacing the Persian language journals with specific English-language ones. Our purpose is to provide a journal that offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of issues concerning Geology subjects (i.e. sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleontology, Petroleum Geology, Engineering Geo...

Task variation is an integrative method aiming at the importance of learner-to-learner interactions in a wide range of learning contexts and fostering authentic use of language and meaningful communication. This study investigated the impact of task variation on the accuracy and complexity of Iranian EFL learners’ oral speech. In so doing, 80 intermediate EFL learners, majoring English at the I...

Background: There is a paucity of information about the oral pathology related articles published in a pathology journal. This study aimed to audit the oral pathology related articles published in Iranian Journal of Pathology (Iran J Pathol)from 2006 to 2015. Methods: Bibliometric analysis of issues of Iran J Pathol from 2006 to 2015 was perf...

This paper presents a human-machine dialogue model in the field of task-oriented dialogues. The originality of this model resides in the clear separation of dialogue knowledge from task knowledge in order to facilitate for the modeling of dialogue strategies and the maintenance of dialogue coherence. These two aspects are crucial in the field of oral dialogues with a machine considering the cur...