until now many studies have been done over recent decades throughout the world to show the right age to start english. in iran, research is still at an early stage in terms of evaluating teachers’ beliefs about teaching children english. the problem of at what age to start teaching english and how to teach english to elementary school children has not been solved neither in this country nor els...

the present study is an attempt to investigate the potential impact of inspirational quotes on improving english abstract vocabulary recall. to achieve this goal, a multiple choice language proficiency test of 60 items including vocabulary and grammar component was administered to a sample of 63 second-semester male and female students whose age ranged between 17 to 22 and they were studying en...

پژوهش حاضر با پیوند رسانه های قدیمی و جدید یاد دهی و یادگیری _طرح داستان و بازی های همراه ــ در یک پو دمان ترکیبی، در صدد قیاس شیوه ی یاد دهی و یادگیری مبتنی بر بازی مهارت های فرعی و اصلی واژگان، خواندن و نوشتار سواد انگلیسی با شیوه های مرسوم آن بود. به این منظور با کاربرد یک طرح سه گانه همراه با الگوی نظام آموزشی (تومی، 2010)، بازی های از پیش ساخته شده و بومی قابل عرضه از طریق ارتباطات سیّار (ب...

plagiarism in esl/efl learning contexts has been established as a dynamic and multi-layered phenomenon and has become a topic engaging many researchers in a heated debate in recent years. comparisons of student-generated texts with their source texts have shown that students rely on source texts in their writings and copying is a major strategy used by both l1 and l2 writers. in our country a...

abstract: advertisements are the most accessible type of authentic materials, and this is one reason why they are used more and more in english teaching classes. for this cause, studies in the field of advertisements are very widespread nowadays. for pun is one aspect which makes advertisements more interesting, it is used more than before in advertisements. use of puns makes an advertisement m...

The purpose of this study was to investigate Learning disability diagnostic validation by Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Abilities in Ahvaz city. Statistical Society this study includes all male and female students with learning disabilities from the first to fifth grade of elementary school in Ahvaz. In the academic year 2012-2013, from the state and non-governmental centers, the indi...

Blind students have limitations that their teachers have to apply efficient educational methods for them. Since mathematics concepts are abstract for blind students and they cannot understand these concepts deeply, this research has tried that used and introduced cooperative learning method for this reason. Blind students have high listening capacity then cooperative learning method can pro...

the current study aimed at investigating the relationship between motivation and test preparation strategies (tpss) used by iranian pre-university students in their preparation period for the university entrance exam (uee). due to the importance of uee in iran, this study also attempted to show its impact on these two important variables. to this end, 100 pre-university students in an iranian p...