Abstract The role of EFL lecturers’ first language (L1) in the EFL courses has been an ongoing debate. A monolingual approach to EFL suggests that the use of the target language solely in foreign language (FL) classroom improves learning of the target language. Accordingly, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the attitude of Iranian lecturers and EFL learners towards using L1 as...

introduction: aphasia is a language disorder resulting from a lesion in the cerebral cortex. in this case report, we present a polyglot patient who recovered from aphasia by speaking his newly active learned language case report: a 69 years old male referred with acute onset right hemiparesis and global aphasia. after imaging, he treated with 75 mg r-tpa (0.9 mg/kg). after the fourth day of hos...

the purpose of the present study was to determine gender differences in the language development and skills of first grade students of primary schools in marivan-iran. to do this, 260 first grade students (140 males and 120 females) were chosen by multi stage cluster sampling and stratified random sampling methods among the first grade students in elementary schools in the 2011-2012 academic ye...