English for Specific Purpose (ESP) instruction in vocational schools necessitates the use of materials that are tailored to students' particular requirements. However, currently available institutions lack an adequate needs analysis. In order address this issue, purpose study is determine requirements students computer and network engineering department procedure text teaching materials. Eleven...

One of the difficulties in pronouncing English for Japanese learners can be traced to unfamiliar English syllable structures (such as CCCV or CVC). It is commonly believed that native speakers of Japanese overcome this problem through the use of epenthetic vowels. This study examines to what extent these extra vowels are suppressed to approximate more closely the syllable structure of English a...

Recent language testing research investigates factors other than language proficiency that may be responsible for systematic variance in language test performance. One such factor is the test takers' cognitive styles. The present study was carried out with the aim of finding the probable effects of Iranian EFL learners' cognitive styles on their performance on communicative tests. For purposes ...

This study was an attempt to investigate the relationship among EFL learners’ language aptitude, anxiety, and willingness to communicate (WTC). Accordingly, two questionnaires and a battery were used: Language Aptitude Battery for Iranian Learners (LABI), Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS), and WTC Scale. A total of 164 undergraduate students majoring in English literature and Eng...

this study was an attempt to find out to what extent efl learners at different levels of language proficiency experience inner speech as mental rehearsal and to identify some of the characteristics and functions of their inner speech. for this purpose, one hundred seventy-four iranian female students majoring in english translation at islamic azad university, tehran central branch, took part in...

This paper outlines a mentoring experience in which undergraduate students majoring in Computer Science spent their summer teaching robotics to high school students in Harlem. We describe two programs in which we worked with undergraduates to develop and implement robotics curriculum. Then we report on a valuable and often overlooked piece of the project — the learning experience of the undergr...