Abstract The present study was an attempt to investigate the relationship between EFL learners’ anxiety and writing complexity. For the purpose of the study, 70 female learners, between 17 and 24 years old (mean=20) from Najm language school in Tehran participated in the study. The participants’ level of anxiety was measured using Horwitz, Horwitz, and Cope’s Anxiety Questionnaire (1986) and th...

Despite the crucial role of introductory sections in argumentative academic writing, the effects of genre- based approaches to writing introductory paragraphs have not been much explored yet. The present study aimed to investigate whether the provision of genre knowledge through modeling and non-modeling could enhance learners’ ability in writing introductory paragraphs of argumentative essays....

Geography education can facilitate learners’ critical thinking and argumentation skills to make well-reasoned decisions on social environmental issues. This study reports a geography course consisting of 18 lessons, each them 75 min, designed afford intensive practice in upper secondary school students (n = 21) following the dramatic arc. The produces examples different developmental pathways s...

This study aims to compare the effect of storytelling in teaching on students' academic achievement with traditional method. In addition, it reveal story education given students writing skills and their opinions regarding teaching. The was carried out a public primary school. mixed research method employed study. A total 61 school 3rd-grade students, 31 experiments 30 controls, participated "A...

This paper highlights lessons learned while developing the Clinical Trials Education for Native Americans (CTENA) curriculum. The CTENA is a culturally specific clinical trials education curriculum that evolved from another ongoing NCI-supported project, Clinical Trials Education for Colorado Providers. The multicultural team learned many lessons while developing, pretesting, and revising this ...

Recent years have witnessed a phenomenon that major English teachers in China adopted the traditional teaching pattern, mechanically linking pronunciations directly with meaning of Chinese, which gradually dampens learners’ enthusiasm. The chief purpose this paper was to design one vocabulary lesson based on incidental acquisition. More specifically, questions raised are, hand, whether imprints...