this study was an attempt to investigate the relationship between efl teachers’ emotional intelligence (ei) and their effectiveness in managing young learners’ classrooms. a total of 25 female teachers of kish language school in tehran expressed their willingness to participate in this study and a briefing session was conducted for them. two sessions of each teacher’s classes were observed by t...

the objective of the present study was to identify and examine the influence of instructional tools, namely, games, songs and stories on young iranian efl learners’ achievement utilizing a quantitative design. to conduct the study 65 iranian efl learners, divided into an experimental group and a control group, learning english at navid english institute, shiraz, iran, participated in the study....

the bulk of research within the interactionist framework seems to be consensually pointing to the beneficial effects of interaction in sla. however, few studies have investigated the role of training in providing and perceiving interactional feedback, especially among young learners. this study probed the effects of training prior to engagement in interaction in case of young learners acquiring...

once severely rejected, first language (l1) use is no more considered to be inherently detrimental in foreign language pedagogy. recent research within sociocultural framework has come up with numerous facilitative roles for l1 use (anton and dicamilla, 1999; swain and lapkin, 2000; storch and wigglesworth, 2003). also, studies from humanistic perspectives that deal with the teachers’ and learn...

this study investigated the manifestation of bloom’s revised taxonomy (brt) in two series of young and adult teaching persian to speakers of other languages (tpsol) textbooks. to this end, the contents of the textbooks were analyzed based on a coding scheme. the results showed statistically significant differences between the different volumes of young learners’ series and between the two serie...

The paper examines how the use of mobile technologies such as tablets and handheld MP3 players can support and promote oral language production among young language learners. It explores how the use of these mobile technologies in the language classroom supports pedagogical practices anchored in socioconstructivist theories of SLA that emphasize the role of dialogue and social interaction among...

The present study attempted to investigate the probable relationship between Iranian young language learners’ identity processing styles and their learning styles. To this end, 29 advanced learners, 23 females and 6 males were randomly selected from an English language Institute. Twenty nine advanced young language learners were chosen randomly out of whole advanced young language learners in t...

abstractthis study investigated the effect of digital games on vocabulary acquisition of low-proficiency iranian male and female efl learners. in order to select homogeneous learners in terms of their english language proficiency, the standard nelson proficiency test was administered, and based on the obtained results, 60 low-proficiency efl learners were selected (31 females and 29 males). the...