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Shafiee, Zahra; Sotoudehnama, Elaheh – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2019
This mixed methods study investigated the contextual and educational dimensions of engaging language teachers in second language acquisition (SLA) theory and research to inform second language pedagogy. To this end, 132 Iranian English teachers completed the questionnaire designed by Nassaji (2012) that includes both Likert-scale items and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Talebi, Seyed Hassan – Issues in Educational Research, 2014
Cross-linguistic transfer studies began from linguistic aspects of language learning and moved to non-linguistic aspects. The intriguing question is whether students are aware of the nature of these cross-linguistic interactions in their minds. For this purpose, a semi-structured interview was conducted with four Iranian university students. It…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Transfer of Training, Foreign Countries
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Abbasi, Zahra; Azizifar, Akbar; Gowhary, Habib; Heidari, Mina – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The Impact of using Supplementary books alongside the national academic text book has received great attention of the curriculum and material developers. Since the beginning of language studies, Second & Foreign Language Acquisition (SLA & FLA) researchers have been searching for effective ways of improving learners' language skills. This…
Descriptors: Supplementary Reading Materials, Experimental Groups, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Khatib, Mohammad; Fat'hi, Jalil – International Education Studies, 2011
Prompted by the recent shift of attention from just focusing on the top-down processing in L2 reading towards considering the basic component, bottom-up processing, the role of phonological component has also enjoyed popularity among a selected circle of SLA investigators (Koda, 2005). This study investigated the effect of the automatization of…
Descriptors: Phonology, Reading Instruction, Control Groups, Second Language Learning