evaluation diversity of agricultural plants and effectiveness of management factors in non-hunting of gharaviz abstract biodiversity is the basis of agriculture. sustainable agriculture both promotes and is enhanced by biodiversity. during present study, agrobiodiversity and management factors were investigated in three villages of gharaviz area and four villages in surroundings area, in sarpol...

negotiation, as an interactional strategy and proactive focus on form (fof) have received increased attention in second language research. the combination of negotiation and proactive fof, however, has not been examined in relation to l2 vocabulary learning. to address this gap, the present study investigated how the amount of negotiation and proactive fof impacted learners’ vocabulary knowledg...

The purpose of this study is to explore the differences in using adjectives between native speakers and Chinese EFL learners at beginner intermediate levels, with research data taken from three sub-written corpora ICNALE, written corpus A2 B1 levels. coded by UAM Corpus tool, version 3.2. result presented two aspects, namely, overall frequencies specific overused underused wordings. reveals tha...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of blended learning and multimedia software on Iranian ESP students' vocabulary learning. To this end, 120 Iranian ESP learners were assigned to two groups: the experimental and control groups. The experimental group received instructions through multimedia software while the control group received traditional instructions. The data were c...

The present study aimed at investigating whether vocabulary-learning strategies had any impact on the vocabulary learning of Iranian EFL learners. The participants of the study were 67 male and female undergraduate university students, majoring in English Translation and English Literature at Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch, who were taking “Reading Comprehension II” course. In ord...

this study aimed at examining the relationship between emotional intelligence (ei) and learning english language vocabulary. the male (n= 119) and female (n= 98) participants who were randomly selected from high schools in zanjan province were asked to complete a persian version of an emotional intelligence (ei) questionnaire and answer a vocabulary achievement test. the ei questionnaire consis...

This study was conducted to compare the impact of two vocabulary learning techniques, namely context learning and translation learning, on vocabulary recall of sixty pre-university Iranian learners of English as a foreign language. They were divided into two groups of high and low proficient. In regard to two vocabulary learning conditions, each group was divided into two subgroups of fifteen. ...

This study investigated the amount of incidental vocabulary learning through comprehension-focused reading of short stories and explicit instruction to this goal.  Forty male high school students were selected randomly, and divided into two groups of twenty.  One group of these students was given five 400-word-level short stories to read with the purpose of comprehension, and the students in th...