It is often wrongly assumed that the provision of teacher corrective feedback naturally entails learners' attendance to and application of it, but learners have repeatedly been reported not to pay attention to teacher feedback due to lack of motivation and the distracting effect of the grades they receive. The present study was an attempt to tackle this problem. To do so, the technique named Dr...

Abstract Learners’ metacognitive competencies play a vital role in affecting their learning outcomes, especially for language learners who need to write English as foreign (EFL). Much research has widely explored writers’ knowledge and strategies EFL contexts, yet the of experiences writing is underexplored. To fill this gap, we conducted study investigate effects student-writers’ on performanc...

the present study was carried out tofind if the personality traits of introversion and extroversion have anyeffects on the speaking ability of iranian students of japanese in terms of accuracy, fluency and lexicaldensity. to this end, 60iranian students of japanese were given the eysenckpersonality inventory; they were also given a role play interview test toelicit speaking samples from them. t...