Objectives: Specific language impaired children, despite being normal in cognitive and neurological characteristics, and also normal levels of hearing, experience multiple problems in syntax comprehension. This study compared the passive comprehension as one of Syntactic Structures in Persian-speaking typically developing children and Specific language impaired children. Methods: 10 children w...

This review aims at examining recent and relevant literature that investigates the correlations among learning style preferences, awareness of motivation, intelligence types, gender, Arabic Gulf region first-year college students’ EFL performance. A lot studies about influence learners’ their motivation types on ESL (English as a second language) performance have been conducted in English speak...

Linguistic/cultural differences of learners’ native language with English as a foreign language, gender and English proficiency level are among those numerous variables which affect English learning and its quality in Iranian context. The present study was an attempt to illuminate the effects of these variables on performing integrative approach of general English tests (cloze test and recall t...

Language learning strategies guide language learners to become active that can provide their own needs and choose preference in the language. Therefore, this study was done used by high low achieving students speaking as well how they apply strategies. There were 20 participants taking part study. They classified into achievers based on score of performances. SILL questionnaire proposed Oxford ...

This study was undertaken to test the hypothesis that some of the items included in the Canadian Language Benchmarks Assessment Reading Subtest favour certain cultural groups. For example, it was posited that Mandarin speakers, who have a tendency to use bottom-up, local reading strategies, would perform better on particular questions than Arabic speakers, who tend to use topdown, global readin...

Slobin’s thinking-for-speaking (TFS) hypothesis suggests that speakers are habitually attuned to aspects of an event that are readily codable in the language while they are formulating speech. This TFS process varies considerably cross-linguistically and can be observed in all forms of production and reception including listening for understanding or mental imagery. This study explored whether ...