in spite of the highly beneficial applications of corpus linguistics in language pedagogy, it has not found its way into mainstream efl. the major reasons seem to be the teachers’ lack of training and the unavailability of resources, especially computers in language classes. phrasal verbs have been shown to be a problematic area of learning english as a foreign language due to their semantic op...

background and aim: in spite of the effect of the left hemisphere domination on first langu­age acquisition in human, studies suggest activi­ties and the role of both hemispheres in learning second language. therefore learning a second language requires more communication between the two hemispheres. regarding the role of the corpus callosum as the only data-centric inter­face between the two h...

the importance of vocabulary learning has been underlined in the field of english for academic purposes (eap) because non-english majors who require reading english texts in their fields of study have to expand their english vocabulary knowledge much more efficiently than ordinary esl/efl learners. since academic vocabulary instruction in iranian universities is realized through the use of gene...

in the introductory stages of language learning, students are exposed to parative forms explicitly taught in their textbooks. as knoch (2004) mthis is accomplished by teaching the comparative form of the adjective generally directly followed by a than clause. this study aimed to compare between native and nonnative material developers with regard to the coverage of comparative forms. in doing s...

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