This study aimed to investigate the relationship between HEXACO personality traits and Iranian EFL learners’ speaking ability. In order to achieve the purpose of the study, among all the language institutes (fifteen institutes) in Amol, Mazandaran Province, 8 were selected randomly (four institutes for female and four institutes for male language learners). Then, two classes were selected rando...

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between HEXACO personality traits and Iranian EFL learners’ speaking ability. In order to achieve the purpose of the study, among all the language institutes (fifteen institutes) in Amol, Mazandaran Province, 8 were selected randomly (four institutes for female and four institutes for male language learners). Then, two classes were selected rando...

Literature is replete with the studies focusing on the role of vocabulary knowledge in second language receptive skills. However, the relationship between the aspects of vocabulary knowledge and productive skills in general, and the speaking performance in particular has remained scanty in the related literature. This paper examined the relationship between knowledge of L2 vocabulary size at di...

One of the most important skills to acquire in learning a foreign language is speaking. It however, viewed as one difficult. This study involved observation non-English major students department Nanjing Tech University. Its aim was assess critically factors that affect speaking performances Chinese EFL Learners, find out their motivational levels and explore ways improve proficiency. Two survey...

As using cue cards is not common in Iranian EFL classes, this research aimed at examining the impacts of applying on developing speaking accuracy and fluency students. Additionally, study looked how employing helped learners reduce their anxiety. Sixty 97 students who took Oxford Quick Placement Test were selected as target sample for current research. The participants then indiscriminately des...

One focus of early foreign language learning in the primary EFL classroom is development oral skills. Imitative and reproductive speaking activities can provide opportunities for basic competencies fluency. Speaking practice aims at progressing acquisition target helping children to become communicatively competent speakers English. Using management as a basis, this contribution suggests practi...

This review aims at examining recent and relevant literature that investigates the correlations among learning style preferences, awareness of motivation, intelligence types, gender, Arabic Gulf region first-year college students’ EFL performance. A lot studies about influence learners’ their motivation types on ESL (English as a second language) performance have been conducted in English speak...

In regard to recent revolution in the education domain, English Language Teaching (ELT) assigns a sociopolitical dimension to itself in the light of Critical Pedagogy. The present study, in line with the recent educational revolution, aimed to investigate the effectiveness of critical thinking on improving EFL learners’ productive skills. The statistical population consisted of 164 pre-i...

This study investigated the acquisition of grammatical aspect by Iranian EFL learners. The main question addressed in this study was whether Iranian EFL learners could distinguish conditions under which they must use either the perfective aspect  or imperfective aspect. A group of 110 adult, Persian-Speaking learners of English both at BA and MA levels Took a Michigan test based on which they w...

This study investigated the effect of transactional and interactional strategies on developing Iranian intermediate EFL learners’ spoken language performance. First of all, to homogenize the participants, the researcher administered IELTS speaking tests to 50 participants as the pre-test in order to select the main sample of the study which were 30 students. That is, those participants whose sc...