the present study investigated school general english achievement and group work among iranian junior high school students. the main question this study tried to answer was whether group work could enhance a higher general english achievement among junior high school students. to answer this question, 60 female learners were divided into experimental and control group randomly with 30 members i...

Writing is an important early literacy skill for English as a Second Language (ESL) students’ academic success, underlining the importance of effective ESL writing instruction at K-12 level. However, there little empirical research on in school settings. The goal this systematic literature review to examine extant evidence challenges teachers encounter teaching and strategies that can be adopte...

The purpose of the article is to prove theoretically and check experimentally effectiveness explicit models for language learning strategies based on instructions in process professionally oriented English communication. hypothesis research implies that level professional communicative competence will increase case combining such as “top-down” “bottom-up” while study employed mixed design metho...

Discourse markers improve both the quality and comprehension of a written text. This study aimed at investigating the effect of explicit and implicit instruction of formal meta-discourse markers on writ- ing skills. The quantitative data were collected from 90 upper-intermediate students at Shiraz Univer- sity Language Center. Two experimental groups went through an instruction, while the contr...

the phenomenon of how tests influence teaching and learning is commonly described as “wash back”in language instruction. literature indicates that wash back effect is a complex concept that becomeseven more complicated under different interpretations of the wash back phenomenon in teaching andlearning. in the present study, some definitions of wash back and its two major types were introduced,a...

<p>The coronavirus disease case, commonly known as Covid-19, has spread internationally since March 2020. Approximately 100 countries, including Vietnam, closed their schools due to a public health emergency, according UNESCO. Due the circumstance, teachers were forced convert from in-person instruction online instruction. In context of this study investigated how EFL high school instruct...

the present study intended to propose a causal model of factors that would predict oral communication apprehension (oca) of iranian learners of english as a foreign language. to conduct the study, 135 male and female university students majoring in english were selected. five variables including: learners’self-esteem and introversion/extroversion(as independent variables), their gender and prof...

This paper presents firstly a set of seven principles that lie behind the development of a vocabulary learning resource destined for French learners of English in higher education, and secondly an experiment investigating the use of narrative as a device to facilitate recall of target words. The seven principles can be combined in different ways, and it is suggested that all merit careful consi...

Teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses is highly demanding for EAP teachers as they are faced with diverse pedagogical and administrative challenges in such courses. This study addressed the level of burnout among EAP teachers and variations in relation to their demographic and organizational characteristics. To this aim, a demographic questionnaire along with the Persian version ...