Manijeh Youhanaee

• University of Isfahan

The primary objective of this study was to compare monolingual and bilingual Iraqi EFL learners’ autonomy, motivation, and willingness to Communicate. To conduct this study, 200 intermediate Iraqi male and female EFL students studying at Baghdad and Erbil universities were selected based on the convenient sampling method. One hundred monolinguals a...

Arabic and English share parallels and contrasts in diverse linguistic domains, including grammar. Significant issues in both languages include intransitivity and transitivity. The present study aims at investigating the following question: What are the properties of Transitive, Intransitive and Passive forms in Arabic and English? This is a qualit...

This study aims at investigating the influence of using flipped classroom model on Iranian EFL eleven graders’ English achievements and their willingness to communicate. A pre-experimental design was used in this study. The participants were students in four classes of two high schools in Sanadaj, Iran. Two classes functioned as experimental and tw...

Cognitive complexity is traditionally used for describing human cognition along a simplicity-complexity axis in tests like TOFEL IBT and GRE where text creation and rhetorical organization are quintessentially important. Accordingly, this study sought to investigate the impact of mentor text modelling on cognitive complexity of academic writing tas...

The current study compared the effectiveness of recasts which triggered learners’ modification to their incorrect forms with recasts which triggered no modified output. To this end, 60 Iranian EFL learners randomly selected from two EFL classes received recasts for their errors during task-based interactions with their interlocutors. Using a tailor...

Arabic and English share parallels and contrasts in diverse linguistic domains, including grammar. Significant issues in both languages include intransitivity and transitivity. The present study aims at investigating the following question: What are the properties of Transitive, Intransitive and Passive forms in Arabic and English? This is a qualit...

The present study aimed at investigating the influence of L1/L2 (Cross-linguistic influence) on the acquisition of resumptive pronouns in English relative clauses by three groups of intermediate learners: L1 -Persian, L1-Azari L2-Persian, and L1-Turkish EFL learners. This study has investigated two pairs of syntactically similar languages concernin...

en The present study investigated the effectiveness of input‐based vs. output‐based practice in learning an unsalient grammatical aspect (obligatory null objects) in English complex infinitival structures. The participants were 57 Persian learners who were divided into three groups (input‐based, output‐based and control), received instruction for t...

The aim of this study was to discover teaching practices and strategies employed in IELTS preparatory courses taught via strategy-based vs. nonstrategy-based instruction in Isfahan, Iran. In so doing, two preparatory courses: strategy-based vs. nonstrategy-based instruction were selected. Courses were observed by employing Communicative Orientation...

The present study is an attempt to investigate the effect of intentional vs. incidental practicing through games on young EFL Persian speakers’ vocabulary learning. To this end, thirty six male learners were divided into one intentional group and one incidental group. In order to determine the effect of intentional vs. incidental practicing on youn...

Being a first exposure one, the current study aimed at answering Gullberg et al.’s (2010) call for studying the relationship between the earliest stages of acquisition in reception and production in order to elucidate how the two modes of language use may interact in the early stages of acquisition. As such, this study was an attempt to compare the...

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between the frequent administrations of English tests and students' motivation, anxiety, and feelings. It also aimed to explore the effect of frequent administrations of English tests on students' scores on final achievement tests. Three groups of participants with frequent, semi-frequent, a...

The present study attempted to explore the acquisition of the English article system by Persian speakers. Using data elicited through a grammaticality judgment test and a translation test from forty-three learners at three levels of grammatical knowledge, it was shown that such learners had persistent difficulty in acquiring both definite and indef...

This research was conducted to investigate the effect of using movie scripts on improving listening comprehension. Forty five intermediate learners were selected based on an IELTS test to carry out the study, and then they were divided into 3 groups: a Home Scripts Group (HSG), a Class Scripts Group (CSG), and a Non Scripts Group (NSG). Each group...

In her theory of Feature Re-assembly, Lardiere (2007) claims that the problems learners face in acquiring a second language grammar are not due to their inability to learn new features. Rather, learners are unable (temporarily, at least) to disintegrate the features associated with a particular form in their first language and re-assemble them in a...

The fact that ELT textbooks play a crucial role in most EFL/ESL settings around the globe may not be rebuffed. This role is noticeably pivotal in language institutes in Iran where global textbooks determine much of what happens in classrooms. It is therefore crucial to know how well a textbook plays the role it is assumed to do. When decisions are...

This study was an attempt to investigate the effectiveness of advance organizers and textual Enhancement (TE) on the acquisition of inchoative and unaccusative verbs by EFL learners. A hundred EFL Persian-speaking learners in four intact classes constituted the groups. One of the experimental groups was exposed to Intralingual advance organizers (I...

The present study investigated the effectiveness of 3 types of grammar presentation on the acquisition of passive constructions. Eighty EFL Persian-speaking learners in 4 Iran Language Institute intact classes constituted the groups. One of the experimental groups was exposed to Intralingual advance organizers (Intra-AOs). The second group received...

It is widely accepted by both linguists and psycholinguists that our implicit linguistic knowledge consists of both abstract rules that enable speakers to construct sentences productively and exemplars that are represented in the form of unanalyzable chunks that are memorized, stored and accessed as wholes. There are two major perspectives towards...

This study was an attempt to evaluate Iranian high school English textbooks in terms of vocabulary, grammatical structures and compatibility between reading comprehension texts and grammar exercises. Readability formula and experts' judgment were used to ensure that high school textbooks, English American headway and English American file books wer...

The present study attempted to explore the acquisition of the English article system by Persian speakers. Using data elicited through a grammaticality judgment test and a translation test from forty-three learners at three levels of grammatical knowledge, it was shown that such learners had persistent difficulty in acquiring both definite and indef...

This study investigated the effect of output practice on the proceduralization, transfer and retention of knowledge on English modals, adopting Anderson's ACT-R model of skill acquisition. A pretest posttest and delayed posttest design was used where the procedural knowledge on production skill was specifically operationalized through the groups’ p...

This paper reports on one aspect of a qualitative study conducted in an EFL setting, of the perception of writing attitudes of 65 EFL students in the University of Isfahan. An open-ended questionnaire was administered to 65 undergraduates to examine firstly what the Iranian EFL students' attitudes towards writing in general are; secondly, whether I...

The definiteness restriction or definiteness effect (DE) is one of the cross-linguistic variations, influencing the syntactic distribution of definites and indefinites. Generally speaking, sensitivity to definite determiner phrases (DPs) where definites are favored over indefinites is called definiteness effect and such an effect has been observed...

In countries in which English is learned as a foreign or as a second language, children's language education has been recognized as an important factor. The present study aims to investigate the progress of EFL young learners via the two methods of Audiolingual and Natural approach. The focus therefore is on the acquisition of English words and com...

An interesting area in second language acquisition research is the way the concept of generic reference is expressed in different languages. This study examines the role of the article system in the expression of generic noun phrases in English and focuses on the problems Persian learners face. Analysis of the performance of Persian learners at thr...

The present study was conducted to investigate the differences between using authentic and pedagogical materials. To run the study two groups were formed: one authentic (AMG) and one pedagogical (PMG). Using an IELTS listening section, 48 intermediate learners were chosen and divided into two groups. AMG participants were taught by three feature fi...

The progressive aspect in stative verbs, due to their semantic, and in achievement verbs, due to their occurrence at a single moment, is widely recognized as unacceptable and uncommon. This paper reports on the judgment of EFL learners of English as well as native speakers on compatibility of progressive aspect with these two verb categories. To th...

This study is an attempt to identify and examine the poetic diction in dramatic/literary texts and their translations. Diction is an important stylistic element of all literary texts. The present study focuses on this element in texts of drama and the strategies used for its translation. To show such strategies at work a dramatic/literary text, nam...

This study investigated the effect of content familiarity and test format on Iranian English learners. The participants of this were advanced students studying at different language institutes in Isfahan, Iran. To sample the subjects of this study, the latest version of Oxford Placement Test was administered to 428 students studying at advanced lev...

Considering the communicative framework of language teaching, writing has an advantage- a person can give a variety of information to a close or distant, known or unknown reader or readers. Such way of communicating is highly important in the modern world, whether the communication is in the form of paper-and-pencil writing or advanced electronic w...

This thesis intends to study the effect of type (Nastaligh and Tahrir) of Persian font and the letter space (normal, condensed and expanded) on the rate of morpheme recognition. The population of this project is a number of 30 boys and girls (11-13 years old) ،of Isfahan gaidance school Students who are randomly chosed from the students who have th...

This paper reports the results of a study on collaborative writing in a foreign language context, Iran, comparing the performance of one group of Iranian intermediate learners on three different writing tasks: individual writing (N=26), pair writing (N=13), and individual writing using a bilingual dictionary (N=26). When writing in pairs, each pair...

This article provides a syntactic analysis of Topicalization and Focalization processes in Persian within the framework of minimalist syntax. According to Haegeman and Gueron’s Split CP Hypothesis (1999), Topicalization is a recursive process and can apply to more than one constituent in a sentence, while Focalization is unique and therefore appear...

This study investigates L2 acquisition of telicity, in particular, how the Persian EFL learners interpret a/telic sentences comparing with English native speakers. To the mentioned aim, 70 EFL learners of English assigned to four groups of elementary, low intermediate, high intermediate and advanced speakers were asked to contribute to the present...

This thesis intends to study the effect of size (12, 14, 16) and type (Nastaligh and Tahrir) of Persian font) on the speed of text reading. The population of this project is a number of 30 boys and girls (11-13 years old)،of Isfahan gaidance school Students who are randomly chosed from the students who have the same level of physical (with no visua...

This study investigates L2 acquisition of telicity, in particular, how the Persian EFL learners interpret a/telic sentences comparing with English native speakers. To the mentioned aim, 70 EFL learners of English assigned to four groups of elementary, low intermediate, high intermediate and advanced as well as 10 native speakers were asked to contr...

The current study explored the effects of recasts and metalinguistic feedback on the acquisition of implicit and explicit knowledge of English by Persian EFL learners. Three intact EFL classrooms were assigned to three groups: two experimental and one control group. Learners in one experimental group received recasts whenever they made an error dur...