After Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Theory (MIT), some language teaching practitioners set out to teach students in a way to help their dominant intelligence(s) blossom. In an EFL context, usually teachers’ main focus is to develop communication skills. Nowadays, writing is one of the main ways by which people communicate. Thus, this study aimed at investigating possible relationship between...

There are a number of factors which influence the success of learning foreign languageincluding students’ learning styles. This study investigated language learning styles of IranianEFL learners and their class achievement. To this end, sixty female intermediate learners ofinstruction and different ages (15-25), studying at a language institute in Rasht city wereasked to take part in the study....

  A growing body of research has indicated that students of ESL/EFL are reticent and unwilling to be engaged in oral activities in English lessons. Communicative language ability includes speaking ability, so vocabulary knowledge plays an integral role in speaking a language. However, there have been few studies examining the degree to which vocabulary knowledge affects speaking ability. The pr...

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...

The main aims of this study are to point out whether some aspects language such as ‘‘hedges and fillers, tag-questions, hypercorrect grammar, interruption, soft swear words emphatic stress, super polite form, intensifiers, empty adjectives rising intonation’’, which indicated by Lakoff, used females English Kurdish societies for different purposes or not, if the level literacy has any effect th...

The present exploratory study aimed to provide a more tangible and comprehensive picture of the construct of investment in language learning through investigating the issue from a quantitative perspective. To this end, the present researchers followed three main phases. First, a hypothesized model of investment in language learning with six components was developed for the Iranian English as a ...