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Direct linkSaadatnia, Mahmood; Ketabi, Saeed; Tavakoli, Mansoor – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate two levels of reading comprehension, namely literal and inferential, of two text types of narration and exposition in Iranian EFL learners. The elicitation instruments were four expository texts and four narrative ones. One hundred eighty upper-intermediate EFL learners were assigned the reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Expository Writing
Download full textKhazaei, Zeinab Moradi; Zadeh, Ahmad Moin; Ketabi, Saeed – English Language Teaching, 2012
Willingness to communicate can be considered as one of the important factors in modern language pedagogy which put emphasis on meaningful communication. The present study investigated the effect of class size on the Iranian EFL students' willingness to communicate among three different class sizes. The researcher collected the data through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Boroujeni, Fatemeh Abbasian; Ketabi, Saeed – English Language Teaching, 2012
The present research was conducted with the aim of examining the foreign language learning needs of graduate and postgraduate students of Genetics in Iran in order to help students to meet the growing present and emerging future language demands. The study was designed on a qualitative-quantitative survey basis using interviews and questionnaires…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students, Student Needs, Second Language Learning
Soleimani, Habib; Moinnzadeh, Ahmad; Kassaian, Zohreh; Ketabi, Saeed – English Language Teaching, 2012
The purpose of the present study is investigating the effect of instruction based on Multiple intelligence (MI) theory on attitude and learning of General English course among students of Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah Branch in the second semester of educational year of 2010-2011. 61 male and female students in two different classes…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, English (Second Language), Pretests Posttests, Experimental Groups
Abdolrezapour, Parisa; Tavakoli, Mansoor; Ketabi, Saeed – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2013
The aim of this study was to gain more in-depth understanding of students' emotions in an EFL context by applying dynamic assessment (DA) procedures to the development of learners' emotional intelligence. The study with 50 intermediate learners aged 12-15 used three modalities: a control group, which was taught under institute's normal procedures;…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Guidelines, Emotional Intelligence, Student Evaluation
Piri, Faramarz; Barati, Hossein; Ketabi, Saeed – English Language Teaching, 2012
Previous studies on the effect of planning on language production have revealed that planning does have a positive effect on language performance in terms of fluency, complexity, and accuracy. The present study was an attempt to investigate the effects of pre-task, on-line, and both pre-task and on-line planning on fluency, accuracy, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
