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Direct linkHemmati, Fatemeh; Mortazavi, Mahboobeh – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2017
This study aimed to investigate the impact of different types of scaffolds on the writing regulatory skills of a cohort of Iranian learners of English (N = 120). The article reports a comparison of the pretest and posttest performance of learners in 4 experimental conditions--namely, the metacognitive scaffolds, conceptual scaffolds, procedural…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Download full textSoltani, Azimeh; Kheirzadeh, Shiela – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2017
This study aimed to explore EFL students' use of writing strategies and their attitudes towards reading-to-write and writing-only tasks. The primary purpose of this study was to see whether there was any significant difference between the writing performance of reading-to-write and writing-only task groups of Iranian EFL learners. Also, this study…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Questionnaires
Abadikhah, Shirin; Aliyan, Zahra; Talebi, Seyed Hassan – Issues in Educational Research, 2018
The aim of the present study was to investigate EFL university students' attitude towards self-regulated learning strategies in writing academic papers. A further aim of the study was to compare the attitudes of two groups of university students (third and fourth years) in the employment of self-regulated learning strategies to find out whether…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
Zare-ee, Abbas; Fatemeh Mahdavi – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
In the study reported here, we explored writing processes employed by 70 undergraduate learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) through questionnaires and think-aloud protocols. Then we looked for possible differences in the writing processes employed by high- and low-aptitude learners. We observed that learners with higher aptitude scores…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Bagheri, Mohammad S.; Fazel, Ismaeil – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2011
Although translation in learning a foreign or second language is frowned upon by many language practitioners, it is nonetheless used by language learners as a viable strategy. To date, few studies have investigated the effect of translation on writing. This study explored the use of translation by Iranian university students, particularly with…
Descriptors: Translation, Learning Strategies, Interviews, Writing Skills
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
Ansari, Dariush Nejad; Varnosfadrani, Azizollah Dabaghi – English Language Teaching, 2010
This study tries to shed some light on the Iranian EFL students' writing strategies at the revision stage of the process of writing in relation to students' interpersonal or intrapersonal intelligences. A total of 73 students majoring in English participated in this investigation. The results indicated that there was a significant relationship…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing Strategies
