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Direct linkMehrpour, Saeed; Rahimi, Mohammad – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2010
The present study was carried out to determine the effect of general vocabulary knowledge and gaining familiarity with the specific vocabulary content of a reading or listening comprehension test on a group of Iranian EFL learners' reading and listening comprehension ability. Two groups of male and female English majors (N = 58) participated in…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Control Groups, Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension
Sarrafzadeh, Maryam; Hazeri, Afsaneh; Alavi, Soheila – Education for Information, 2011
The present paper discusses results of a study which aimed to explore the knowledge and use of Web 2.0 technologies by LIS academics in Iran and to explore the challenges they face for using these technologies. The research method was explorative and empirical. Data was collected through a web-based survey questionnaire containing both open and…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Discussion Groups, Familiarity
Download full textDehghan, Farzaneh; Sadighi, Firooz – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2011
Reading skill has taken on an important role in most EFL teaching situations. While linguistic knowledge is only one aspect of this skill, background knowledge including culture can also play an important role (Alptekin, 2006; Johnson, 1981; Pritchard, 1990; Steffensen, Chitra, & Anderson, 1979). This study investigated the effect of cultural…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Zare-ee, Abbas – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2011
Because of the potentialities and influences of information communication technologies (ICTs) in facilitating research and instruction in higher education, students' learning products and processes can no longer be restricted to ink on paper. The problem, however, is that ICT use for instructional purposes by staff members at institutions of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Familiarity, Foreign Countries, College Faculty
Kiomrs, Razavipour; Abdolmehdi, Riazi; Rashidi, Naser – English Language Teaching, 2011
It is by now well established that teacher characteristics play a major role in the way high stakes tests impact education (Alderson and Hamp-Lyons, 1996). What remains an open question, however, is specifying the type of characteristics that have the potential to moderate the backwash effects of tests. This study was designed to isolate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Literacy, Case Studies
Ozmusul, Mustafa, Ed. – Online Submission, 2018
These proceedings contain the abstracts of papers of EDUSREF 2018, which was held in Ankara, Turkey on 6-7 April 2018. Establishing in 2018 as a scientific initiative; Education, Society & Reform Research (EDUSREF-2018) is an International Conference that aims to bridge the knowledge gap, promote social research esteem, and produce democratic…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Social Systems, Social Integration
Hayati, A. Majid – English Language Teaching, 2009
The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of cultural knowledge on improving Iranian EFL learners' listening comprehension. To achieve this purpose, out of three hundred participants, one hundred and twenty pre-intermediate language learners were selected based on their scores on a listening comprehension test and were randomly…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Listening Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Shokouhi, Hossein; Maniati, Mahmood – English Language Teaching, 2009
This study was intended to determine whether or not the genre of a reading text affects the incidental vocabulary acquisition of L2 learners while reading. To this aim, 40 Iranian EFL students whose vocabulary knowledge was within a limited range (already determined by Nation's Vocabulary Levels Test) were divided into two groups of 20 each for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development
Peer reviewedRahimpour, Massoud; Hazar, Fatemeh – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2009
This paper presents the results of a study investigating the impact of interactional feedback on interlanguage variation in terms of accuracy, complexity, and fluency of learners' discourse in performing tasks with familiar vs. unfamiliar topics. The participant of the study who were randomly assigned into an experimental and a control group were…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Interlanguage, Familiarity
