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Download full textYavari, Fereshteh; Shafiee, Sajad – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
The present study attempted to explore the effects of employing shadowing and tracking on Iranian EFL learners' speaking fluency. From among 112 intermediate Iranian EFL learners at Jahad Danesheshgahi Language Institute in Isfahan, Iran, 60 were selected in the wake of administering the Preliminary English Test and divided into four groups:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Direct linkNamaziandost, Ehsan; Neisi, Leila; Kheryadi; Nasri, Mehdi – Cogent Education, 2019
The current study tried to investigate the impact of cooperative learning (CL) on improving Iranian intermediate EFL learners' oral proficiency motivations toward learning English. To fulfil this objective, 90 participants were selected and divided into two equal groups; one experimental and one control group. Then, the sample's speaking skills…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Ebadi, Saman; Ebadijalal, Marjan – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
This study reports the results of a mixed-methods investigation on the impact of a virtual reality (VR) tool on Iranian EFL learners' willingness to communicate (WTC) and oral proficiency. Twenty upper-intermediate EFL learners were divided into experimental and control groups role-playing as museum guides with and without Google Expeditions VR…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Farshi, Najmeh; Tavakoli, Mansoor; Ketabi, Saeed – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2019
The present study examined the effects of different types of written input on the learning and retention of collocational knowledge. Eighty-three second language (L2) learners from four intact classes were divided into a control group and three treatment groups. The treatment groups were provided with infrequent grammatical collocations embedded…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Second Language Instruction, Written Language
Explicit Instruction through Task Repetition: Effects on Explicit and Implicit Knowledge Development
Khezrlou, Sima – Language Awareness, 2021
The present study explored the effect of task repetition with and without explicit instruction on EFL learners' (n = 26) explicit and implicit English regular past tense structure development. One group (REP) repeated the same task (n = 12) while another group (EI + REP) received explicit instruction between performances of the same task (n = 14).…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language
Shakhsi Dastgahian, Elahe; Turner, Marianne; Scull, Janet – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2020
Despite the recent emphasis on oral English language proficiency in the Iranian education system, the teaching of oral communication remains a challenge for secondary school English language teachers. In this article, we suggest that this, in part, relates to the continued emphasis on literacy practices. The article explores the approach taken by…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Literacy, Task Analysis, Teaching Methods
Zare, Mostafa; Shooshtari, Zohreh Gooniband; Jalilifar, Alireza – Language Teaching Research, 2022
This study aims to explore the impact of oral corrective feedback types on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' willingness to communicate across proficiency levels. It also investigates how EFL learners view different types of feedback in relation to their willingness to communicate. Sixty Iranian EFL learners were tracked in four…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Estaji, Masoomeh; Farahanynia, Mahsa – Educational Assessment, 2019
The present study aimed to investigate the effect of two major approaches of Dynamic Assessment, namely, interventionist and interactionist approaches, on learners' oral narrative performance and anxiety. To this end, 34 Iranian EFL learners were assigned to an Interactionist Group (InA.G) and Interventionist Group (InV.G). Initially, both groups…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Hassanzadeh-Taleshi, Mobin; Yaqubi, Baqer; Bozorgian, Hossein – Language Learning Journal, 2023
This study aimed to examine the effects of combining task repetition with immediate post-task transcribing (TRIPT) on L2 learners' immediate and delayed oral repetitions of the same task in terms of complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF). For this purpose, 38 intermediate Iranian learners were randomly assigned to two groups: TRIPT and task…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Task Analysis, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
Yatroon, Parisa – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2020
Needs analysis is regarded as an essential step for developing a curriculum for English for specific purpose courses. Assessing learners' present and real-life language needs can contribute to learners' active participation in learning processes. This study aimed to assess English geared law learners' needs and to analyze the pedagogical tasks in…
Descriptors: Oral Language, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Saeli, Hooman; Rahmati, Payam; Dalman, Mohammadreza Dalman – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2021
This study examined low-proficiency Iranian EFL students' affective, behavioral, and cognitive engagement with oral corrective feedback (OCF) on interdental fricative errors: /?/and/ð/. The data were collected from 27 learners with favorable and unfavorable perceptions about OCF. After receiving OCF on 30 tested and 30 untested lexical items in…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Error Correction, Pretests Posttests, Accuracy
Bahador, Hamid; Mofrad, Marzieh Hatami – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2020
EFL learners often have problems to speak properly in English. As the purpose of teaching speaking is to improve the learners' oral production, language teaching should maximize language use in the classrooms (Haozhang, 1997), which is achieved through implementing proper teaching techniques to require learners to learn and practice the language…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Females, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation
Sepehrinia, Sajjad; Fallah, Nahid; Torfi, Soad – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2020
Studies on oral error correction in second language acquisition have been tilted towards cognitive aspects ignoring the affective and practical dimensions. This study attempted to fill this gap by investigating the role of students' proficiency levels in five English language teachers' corrective behavior. Follow-up interviews were conducted with…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Oral Language
Bagheri, Mehdi; Hadian, Bahram; Vaez-Dalili, Mehdi – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
The present study intended to examine the effectiveness of the Vaughan method for the development of EFL learners' speaking skill. The Vaughan method was compared with two other methods, namely the Audiolingual method and communicative language teaching with regard to the development of learners' speaking skill. In a quasi-experimental design,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Nguyen, Hanh thi, Ed.; Malabarba, Taiane, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2019
This edited volume brings together 10 cutting-edge empirical studies on the realities of English language learning, teaching and testing in a wide range of global contexts where English is an additional language. It covers three themes: learners' development of interactional competence, the organization of teaching and testing practices, and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence
