
Mansour KooshaUniversity of Isfahan · Department of English
Mansour Koosha
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This study attempts to tease apart the effect of first (L1) and second (L2) language knowledge on the acquisition of syntactic properties of L3 English in order to test current generative theories in the field of third language acquisition (L3A). The property under investigation is adjective placement. Participants are L1 Azeri / L2 Persian, and L1...
The current study investigated the effect of using colloconstructional corpus-based instruction on enhancing the pragmalinguistic knowledge of speech acts of request among intermediate EFL learners. The fundamental idea was that whether providing students with on-line corpora through using colloconstruction had any effects on enhancing their pragma...
In the present study, an attempt was made to probe into the probable difference between Iranian intermediate and advanced EFL learners' receptive and productive collocational knowledge. To this end, 60 EFL learners studying at Islamic Azad University, Isfahan Branch, including 30 advanced and 30 intermediate learners, were chosen through the Oxford...
THE PRESENT STUDY INTENDS TO EVALUATE TOTAL ENGLISH UPPER INTERMEDIATE (TEUI), AS AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING (ELT) MATERIAL IN THE EFL CURRICULUM SETTING. FOR THIS PURPOSE, TWO CHECKLISTS DEVELOPED BY LITZ (2005), NAMELY “STUDENT TEXTBOOK EVALUATION FORM” AND “TEACHER TEXTBOOK
EVALUATION FORM” WERE PRESENTED TO 101 EFL LEARNERS AS WELL AS 26 EFL...
Task-based language teaching (TBLT) can provide learners with more authentic communicative activities, particularly in foreign language context, where learners may experience few such opportunities. From the perspective of sociocultural theory (SCT), scaffolding is a process of supportive interaction that occurs when learners are communicating with...
Regarding the fundamental role of speaking in language skills, this study intended to investigate the effects of speaking portfolio as an alternative form of assessment for assessing Iranian EFL learners’ speaking ability at the intermediate and advanced proficiency levels and also its impact on their attitudes. Accordingly, from the population of...
The purpose of this study was to see whether any significant relationship exists among EFL learners’ self-esteem, autonomy, and reading comprehension; and whether there is any significant difference between EFL learners’ self-esteem and autonomy in predicting their reading comprehension skill. For this purpose, 121 EFL participants who were studyin...
This article reports on an empirical study that investigated the influence of explicit metacognitive strategy instruction on reading comprehension and self-efficacy in English as a foreign language (EFL) among university students in Iran. A randomized pre- test posttest control group design was employed. The quantitative data were collected by the...
The present study aims to reveal some facts concerning first language (\(\hbox {L}_{1})\) and second language (\(\hbox {L}_{2})\) spoken-word processing in unbalanced proficient bilinguals using behavioral measures. The intention here is to examine the effects of auditory repetition word priming and semantic priming in first and second languages of...
The significance and impact of vocabulary learning in reading comprehension and L2 language learning are apparent to teachers, researchers and language learners. Moreover, glosses are found as one of the most effective strategies regarding vocabulary retention. Therefore, the present study attempted to investigate the effect of different types of g...
Many teachers have not eagerly agreed that literature can be an effective part of foreign language programs because of the lack of empirical research that can prove the necessity of literature in language classes. This study attempted to discover whether literature can be a pedagogically powerful tool for increasing Iranian undergraduates' foreign...
Researchers have demonstrated that effective teacher leadership has a positive influence on English language students’ achievement and it is seen as an essential means for institution improvement and renewal. To this end, the present article aimed at exploring and quantitatively analyzing the extent to which EFL teachers perceive teacher leadership...
This study sought to explore the effect of teaching prewriting strategies through different methods of input delivery (i.e. conventional, web-based, and hybrid) on EFL learners’ writing quantity. In its quasi-experimental study, the researchersrecruited 98 available sophomores, and assigned them to three experimental groups (conventional, web-based...
Distance language learning provides an excellent opportunity for language learners to receive instruction in an adaptable environment. This type of pedagogy offers a flexible time management system for students under the pressure of shaping business and/or life responsibilities. By the emergence of new technological advances, research on distance l...
In bilingual studies, repetition priming across languages or translation priming can be used to examine themental representations of bilingual lexicon and language in memory. Motivated to demonstrate the effects ofdividing attention during implicit retrieval of L2 spoken words, we investigated the nature of the processesinvolved in translation prim...
The main concern of the present study was to investigate the probable correlation between the bilinguals’ second language grammatical proficiency level and their third language grammatical proficiency level. The current study was implemented on selecting a total of 100 Iranian female high school students studying at second grade from two educationa...
One of the most influential models of working memory (WM) is the one developed by Baddeley (1986, 2000, 2003) which views WM comprising several components—a central executive, an episodic buffer, the visuo-spatial sketchpad, and the phonological loop. The phonological loop or phonological memory (PM) deals with the temporary storage of verbal and s...
Evidence is accumulating that phonological memory (PM), a sub-component of working memory (WM), is closely related to different facets of second language (L2) learning. Moreover, little research has specifically delved into the relationship between the PM capacity and grammar among adult learners at different L2 proficiency levels. Therefore, it se...
Students' disengagement in class activities is usually interpreted from the instructors' viewpoints, disregarding students' perceived causes of the phenomenon. This study investigated instructors and students' perceptions on writing reluctance, aiming at exploring possible convergence and divergence between the participants' ideas. Twelve instructo...
Second language writing, not unlike other language skills, is an area of practice requiring due attention and meticulously planned instruction. With a prevalent shift of paradigm from product-oriented to process-oriented approaches to writing instruction, such learner variables as language learning strategies came to the forefront. Among second lan...
The purpose of the present paper was to present the rationale for the Task-based Language teaching and discuss its significance within the SLA approaches to language teaching. First, different approaches to Task-based language teaching research and practice were discussed, then the notion of 'Task Complexity" has been touched upon and different mod...
This study reports on an experimental investigation that examines the backward transfer of reading comprehension strategies from English language learners' second language to their mother tongue, i.e. Persian. The study was carried out at Islamic Azad University of Shahrekord, where 63 English majors took their advanced reading comprehension course...
Two important aspects of vocabulary knowledge, namely breadth and depth, continue to play an indispensable role in vocabulary research. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension, and to find out which aspect of vocabulary knowledge, breadth or depth, has greater impact on determining rea...
Textbooks play a very crucial role in the process of language teaching and learning. The present study carries out an evaluation of two series of ELT textbooks used for teaching English language in Iranian high schools from 1965 to the present. For this purpose, Tucker's (1975) textbook evaluation model is employed. The results suggest that one of...
Lexical bundles have been spotlighted by the researchers in the last two decades. The aim of this study was to examine the use of lexical bundles in physics research articles in terms of the frequency of occurrence and distribution of different structural types. The Physics research articles corpus (PRAC) developed in this study consisted of 800 re...