This study attempts to elicit the perceptions and attitudes of EFL learners of the Preparatory Year Program at KSU towards dialogue journal writing as an EFL learning strategy. The descriptive research design used incorporated both qualitative and quantitative instruments to accomplish the objectives of the study. A learners’ attitude questionnaire and follow-up interviewswith learners from a r...

The examination of emotion and its contribution to L2 learning began four decades ago; however, despite the advancements in this area, there seems be also a need for more research on role milieu education. Accordingly, present study has been intended shed light relationship between Iranian language learners’ engagement their achievement emotions. To end, 403 English as Foreign Language (EFL) le...

goal: the goal of this research is to evaluate iranian state university websites using wai . method: this study is descriptive and delphi survey. the research sample consists of 100 iranian state university websites. data collection was used by checklists that prepared in the wai. results: assessing of the iranian state university websites according to five main criteria (accessibility, speed, ...

The present study examines the associations between tactical performance indexes with quality of tactical behaviours and birth-date quarters of youth Soccer players. The sample comprised a total of 534 youth players classified into four seasons of 3 months (January-March; April-June; July-September; October-December). A system of tactical assessment in Soccer (FUT-SAT) was used to collect data....

This study investigates the validity of a writing model proposed as the underlying structure of the writing skill in English as a foreign language (EFL). Four writing prompts were administered to 178 Iranian EFL learners. The scripts were then scored according to writing benchmarks similar to the IELTS Writing criteria but narrower in scope. After interand intra-rater reliability analysis, a th...

The present study has been conducted with two main questions: Does using mobile phones by intermediate EFL learners have a significant effect on the learners' vocabulary retention? And is there a significant difference between male and female intermediate EFL learners in vocabulary retention while using mobile phones? This study was a true experimental research and to do the research 111 studen...

On the Impact of Literature Reading on Iranian Upper-intermediate Male and Female EFL Learners’ Creative Writing Ability