Abstract This paper investigates measures of change to help demonstrate the necessity variability as a developmental mechanism for advancing different features L2 learning (related here primarily writing, but also reading) with particular focus on learners at stages development. To do so, work draws three studies build case using meaningful marker change. Lowie, Wander M. & Marjolijn Verspo...

teaching and learning a second language, especially in postgraduate courses requires teachers to use appropriate teaching approaches and strategies since they can facilitate language learning considerably. the present research aims to study the relationship between instructional scaffolding and language learning among a selected group of persian learners in persian language centre in qazvin, ir...

introduction: children of the ages 5-6 are in a distinct educational condition. on the one side, they are biologically inclined toward movement and on the other side their parent’s preference toward straight and categorical education like second language starts. this study investigates the effect of neshaat language and movement integrative program on children’s gross motor development and thei...

introduction: children of the ages 5-6 are in a distinct educational condition. on the one side, they are biologically inclined toward movement and on the other side their parent’s preference toward straight and categorical education like second language starts. this study investigates the effect of neshaat language and movement integrative program on children’s gross motor development and thei...

this study investigated language learning styles of iranian efl learners and their class achievement. to this end, sixty female ad- vanced learners of instruction and different ages (15-30), studying at a language institute in shiraz were asked to take part in the study. a 30- item language learning styles questionnaire developed by reid (1987) was employed to elicit information for the study. ...

Existing research indicates that instructed learners’ L2 proficiency and their metalinguistic knowledge are moderately correlated. However, the operationalization of the construct of metalinguistic knowledge has varied somewhat across studies. Metalinguistic knowledge has typically been operationalized as learners’ ability to correct, describe, and explain L2 errors. More recently, this operati...

abstractthe interference of the native language in acquiring a foreign language is unavoidable. in an attempt to explore the phenomenon why this occurs, the study was conducted in english as a foreign language writing. the study also investigated how the native language interference occurred in the writing process. in fact, this qualitative study explored the reasons and the process of native l...