Giti Mousapour Negari

• assistant professor at University of Sistan and Baluchestan

Teacher credibility is assumed to be the most important variable which affects teacher-student interaction. It may be one possible reason for why students prefer to have more classes with some particular teachers than others. Highly credible teachers can motivate the students and maximize their overall academic performance. In light of the foregoin...

Teacher credibility is assumed to be the most important variable which affects teacher-student interaction. It may be one possible reason for why students prefer to have more classes with some particular teachers than others. Highly credible teachers can motivate the students and maximize their overall academic performance. In light of the foregoin...

The present study attempted to investigate the effects of audio input enhancement on EFL learners' retention of intensifiers. To this end, two research questions were formulated. In order to address these research questions, this study attempted to reject two null hypotheses. Pretest-posttest control group quasi-experimental design was employed to...

The present study tried to find out the relationship between Iranian EFL teachers’ emotional intelligence and their teaching styles. Moreover, it tried to explore the components of emotional intelligence that could act as predictors for Iranian EFL teachers’ teaching styles. The participants of this study were 90 Iranian EFL teachers from Sistan an...

Based on Involvement Load Hypothesis (LAUFER; HULSTIJN, 2001), current study examined the effect of involvement load and task type on vocabulary acquisition. Six classesof EFL learners were assigned to one of six experimental groups with different involvement loads, thus leaving three groups with receptive tasks and three with productive tasks. Lea...

The present paper aims at investigating the relationship among Iranian EFL learners’ attitudes to autonomous learning, thinking styles, and their language learning strategy use. The instruments were Cotterall’s (1995) Attitudes to Autonomous Language Learning Inventory (AALLI), Sternberg’s (1997) Thinking Styles Inventory (TSI) and Oxford's (1990)...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the students' anxiety in essay writing and their writing performance in EFL context. The subjects were chosen from among 75 Iranian EFL students who took part in TOFEL proficiency test. 27 students majoring in English have been selected. They studied either English translation or...

Research on teacher attitudes toward language and cultural differences has revealed that teachers form negative stereotypes of students with non-standard dialects (Münstermann, 1989). They consider dialect differences as deficiency in language learning, or sloppy pronunciation. Teacher's attitude toward the students is important in that it creates...

The present article reports on the results of a study designed to investigate the effects of two types of lexical modification i.e., lexical simplification and elaboration, on incidental vocabulary acquisition of Iranian EFL learners.To this end, four versions of experimental texts containing 20 target words were created: baseline and simplified ve...

Writing in a second or foreign language seems to be the most difficult language skill for language learners to acquire in academic contexts. While explicit instruction of strategies is not a usual practice in foreign language classrooms, it could be beneficial for language learners. The present study aims at investigating the effect of concept mapp...

The present paper investigated the effectiveness of concept mapping as a learning strategy on EFL students' self-regulation (metacognitive self-regulation, time and study environment, effort regulation, peer learning, and help seeking). Sixty university students participated in the study. They were randomly assigned to control and experimental grou...

This study attempts to investigate the role of translation in improving EFL learners' reading comprehension. To that end, 120 learners studying English at different Language Institutes were selected. The Michigan Test of English Language Proficiency (Corrigan, 1979) was administered to determine their level of proficiency. The participants were ran...