Indubitably, the efficacy of metalinguistic awareness in improving EFL learners’ grammatical knowledge and writing quality has long been an area of great interest in applied linguistics Brown (2001). Accordingly, the main objective of the present study was to investigate the impact of planned and unplanned focus on form instruction on students’ ability to learn grammar and use it appropriately ...

Literature is a creative and imaginative work; it records human lives or experiences using language as its medium. Literary works medium rather than goal an end in the instruction will be revealed. There are four skills to developed process of instruction. These are: listening, speaking, reading well writing. This paper elaborate aspects: (a) some reasons strategies for educator utilize literar...

this study explored the effects of 2 different types of strategies—translatedwriting vs. reading to write—in the writings of some of iranian efl learners inesfahan payamenoor university. the results showed no significant differences inthe students’ writings (in the 2 experimental groups and 1 control group) for thepretest topic. with respect to the posttest, the results, however, indicated that...

since the emergence of the process-oriented approach in second language writing instruction, the issues of writing instruction have been predominantly concerned with what and how error feedback should be given to the students’ writing. the present study investigated the effect of explicit corrective feedback on writing accuracy of iranian intermediate efl learners (n = 44) in hamedan islamic az...

The present study was an attempt to investigate the effect of meta-cognitive strategy (planning, self-monitoring) awareness raising instruction on reading comprehension of Iranian ESP learners. Participants of three groups each comprising of 21 Iranian male students studying “Civil Engineering” in “Islamic Azad University of Buin Zahra” were selected and assigned to three groups: two experiment...