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Recent studies suggest that word marginal glossaries are very useful in reading text when readers have no knowledge about some words and help them comprehend the text without wasting time for looking up the word meaning in dictionaries or making…

This study investigated the merits of pairing learners into different genders in peer interaction activates, here the cloze activities, in EFL classes in Iran. The participants were twelve pre-intermediate EFL students learning English in a Foreign…

The research examined an area of pragmatic competence that is rather underrepresented in the literature of interlanguage pragmatics: pragmatic comprehension. Pragmatic comprehension involves the inferential process of understanding what a speaker…

Charles Dickens and Emily Bronte are among the greatest novelists in the 19th century in English literature. Great expectations and Wuthering Heights can respectively be regarded as their representative works. In these novels both Heathcliff’s love…

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of instruction of concept mapping (CM) strategy as one of the metacognitive strategies on reading strategy utilization of Iranian EFL university students. Another purpose of the study was…

English is taught as a foreign language nearly in all higher education institutions in Turkey. Though the aim of teaching English is mainly based on communicational skills, it is rarely performed with innovative and technologically up to date…

The current study aims to find out whether the use of visual aids in writing classes facilitates the path that learners go though while acquiring writing skills in L2. Although strategy training in writing has been proved to be effective in L2…

The aim of this research is to define the effects of various teaching methods (classic teaching, using realia , picture-drawing ) on learning, short and long-term recall of new L2 vocabulary. This experimental model research is used in this study.…

This research paper is going to elaborate Middlemarch, one of the greatest works of George Elliot (her real name was Marie Ann Evans). It is one of the major pieces of the thesaurus of British Victorian period. The novel is subtitled as ‘A study of…

English for Academic Purposes (EAP) has become an expanding discipline within universities worldwide. Abundant research has been devoted to the study of EAP in various academic settings, and yet no studies have been conducted to investigate the…