In recent years, with the continuous development of the society, the boom of global Chinese learning has flourished. The teaching and research of Chinese as a foreign language has received much attention. In order to explore the effective teaching methods in oral Chinese, to stimulate foreign students' love of learning Chinese, and to increase…

In the present study, an attempt has been made to determine the demotives affecting EFL learning of Iranian Islamic seminary students and also to distinguish the motivated and demotivated EFL learners in terms of their EFL learning as the major focus of this study. Fifty Iranian EFL seminary students were investigated using two validated…

This study examines the preferred vocabulary learning strategies of Iranian upper-intermediate EFL learners. In order to identify the aforementioned group in terms of language proficiency, a TOEFL test was administered to a population of 146 undergraduate EFL students at the university of Vali-e-Asr in Rafsanjan, Iran. Those scoring above 480 were…