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Isavi, Ebrahim – Online Submission, 2012
Dynamic assessment research, with its roots in Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development, is still in its infancy (Lantolf and Poehner, 2004; Poehner, 2008). It came to the attention of scholars to break away from a static, incomplete and unfair form of assessment to the dynamic form of assessment in order to more comprehensively uncover learners'…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Writing Ability, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Khonamri, Fatemeh; Mahmoudi Kojidi, Elahe – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2011
We report an investigation on the relationship between metacognitive awareness of reading strategies and comprehension monitoring of language learners in English as a foreign language context. Participants were thirty first year university students majoring in electronics. They completed a questionnaire aimed at discerning the strategies that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Reading Ability
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Sadeghi, Karim – TESL Canada Journal, 2009
Collocations are one of the areas that produce problems for learners of English as a foreign language. Iranian learners of English are by no means an exception. Teaching experience at schools, private language centers, and universities in Iran suggests that a significant part of EFL learners' problems with producing the language, especially at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Language Tests, English (Second Language)
Catran, Jack – 1985
This transcript of and guide to a two-cassette course designed to assist Iranian immigrant speakers of Farsi in erasure of their foreign accents can be used for either individual or group study. Narrative and taped demonstrations of American English that pinpoint typical phonological barriers and pronunciation difficulties are outlined. The…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Consonants, Diacritical Marking, Diction
Shahheidaripour, Gholamabbass – Online Submission, 2000
Background: Persian English learners committed mistakes and errors which were due to insufficient knowledge of different senses of the words and collocational structures they formed. Purpose: The study reported here was conducted for a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for The Master of Arts degree, School of Graduate…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Comprehension, Interlanguage
Ghadessy, Mohsen – 1972
The purpose of this study was to review some of the criteria given by linguists for the development of language materials and to present a case for error analysis as a major criterion in the preparation of materials for the teaching of writing skills to Iranian freshman students. Chapter one reviews the major events and landmarks bearing upon the…
Descriptors: College Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, English (Second Language)
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