although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

writing as a productive skill requires practice in the basic sub-skills of vocabulary and grammar. in fact, grammar has been viewed as the core of programs in writing classes to help the students put the elements of sentence together and combine sentences of specific lengths to come up with an error-free work of art. conceptualizing l2 writing in this way introduces writing as a product and enc...

Introduction: The aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of computer-assisted cognitive remediation on the difficulty of emotional regulation among students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Methods: The participants in this study included 24 (12 boys and 12 girls) students with ADHD and in the sixth to ninth grades of the seventh district of Tehran i...