in view of native/nonnative language teacher dichotomy, different characteristics have been assigned to these 2 groups. the dichotomy has been the source of different actions and measures to clarify the positive and negative points of being (non)native teachers. in recent years, many researchers have revisited this dichotomy. the challenge to the dichotomy can be a source of motivation to explo...

The present study attempted to investigate the probable relationship between Iranian young language learners’ identity processing styles and their learning styles. To this end, 29 advanced learners, 23 females and 6 males were randomly selected from an English language Institute. Twenty nine advanced young language learners were chosen randomly out of whole advanced young language learners in t...

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This paper aims to study Vygotsky’s (1987) sociocultural theory of learning with respect to how it relates to technology-based second language learning and teaching. The researchers selected their participants from advanced students from Payame Noor University. We divided the participants into two groups- an experimental group and a control group. After teaching the course an experimental group...

Foreign language enjoyment and speaking anxiety in the classroom are two potential emotion-inducing factors for foreign language learning. This sequential mixed methods study investigated whether and to what extent Iranian EFL students experienced foreign language enjoyment and public speaking anxiety in their English classrooms, and how they characterize the sources of the enjoyment and speaki...

stuttering as a disorder from which many people suffer has drawn the attention of many psychologists and theorists. however, very few studies have investigated the incidence of this phenomenon in second language learning. this study deals with the problem from only one perspective: how does stuttering in second language of a stammerer come to exist? the answer to this question seems to be vague...

We developed a knowledge and information on demand system, KIDS, which structures free-form text as knowledge to provide the user with knowledge fit for his natural language query. For a period of four years, we carried out knowledge sharing experiments using the system at a research center that includes around 1,000 researchers engaged in various fields such as computer science, display device...