this study investigated the effects of three kinds of gloss conditions, that is traditional non-call marginal gloss, audio gloss, and extended audio gloss, on reading comprehension and vocabulary gain of iranian upper- intermediate efl learners. to this end, three experimental and one control groups, each comprising 15 participants, took part in the current study. in order to ensure that the pa...

Iranian Rehabilitation Journal is the only English journal in Rehabilitation and research in Middle East. Number fourteen of this journal is going to be published with variety of articles in rehabilitation issues. We welcome original articles, reviews and case reports. Open Access Journal is a journal that uses a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. DOAJ...

the present study sought to examine whether a task-based approach could have an impact on raising awareness of collocations. moreover, it sought to investigate the facilitative role of consciousness-raising tasks of collocations in the communicative instances of use. to this end, 68 intermediate learners of english were selected via a placement test. the participants were taught with classroom ...

this study investigated the effects of manipulating the cognitive complexity of tasks along +/- few elements and the time limits on l2 learners writing performance. to conduct the study, 60 iranian efl learners with two levels of proficiency, low and high intermediate, were selected and assigned to three groups based on the time devoted to task completion. the participants performed both a simp...

تحلیل پوششی داده ها به عنوان یک علم نوپا به ابزاری برای اندازه گیری کارایی در آمده است. تحلیل پوششی داده ها به بررسی و ارزیابی واحدهای تصمیم گیرنده که یک یا چند ورودی را برای تولید یک یا چند خروجی مصرف می کنند می پردازد. از مشخصه های اصلی تحلیل پوششی داده ها حساس بودن آن نسبت به داده ها می باشد بدین معنی که عدم دقت در جمع آوری داده ها باعث به دست آمدن نتایج نادرستی می گردد. از جمله کاربردهای ان...

abstract the first purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of consciousness-raising (c-r) activities on learning grammatical structures (simple present tense in this case) by iranian guidance school efl learners. the second one was to investigate the effect of gender on learning the simple present tense through c-r activities and tasks. finally, this study aimed to investigate the ...

the current study examined iranian undergraduate efl students’ willingness to communicate with regard to their vocabulary knowledge. in general, participants were somewhat willing to communicate in english. the total mean score of 730 university students’ perception of willing to communicate was 83.53 out of 135. results, regarding four parts of willingness to communicate, revealed that part...