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The Effects of Task Complexity on English Language Learners’ Listening Comprehension

عباس زارع

دوره 1، شماره 2 ، دی 1392، صفحه 225-250

چکیده
  This article reports on the findings of a study that investigated the impact of manipulating task performance conditions on listening task performance by learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). The study was designed to explore the effects of changing complexity dimensions on listening task performance and to achieve two aims: to see how listening comprehension task performance was affected and to investigate possible overlaps between EFL learners’ perceptions of task difficulty and hypothesized task complexity. A purposive sample of 54 first-year EFL learners randomly assigned to ...  بیشتر

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The Relationship between Internal Forms of Engagement (Cognitive-Affective) and Academic Success across Years of Study

ژاله حسن خواه؛ عباس علی خان زاده؛ سعیده محمدزاده

دوره 1، شماره 2 ، دی 1392، صفحه 251-272

چکیده
  Literature has already confirmed that student engagement as an external or multidimensional construct may contribute to the academic success of college students. However, very few studies have tried to examine the contributions the more "internal forms of engagement" (cognitive and affective) might make in this regard, and how the engagement patterns may change over the academic years. To fill the gap, this study was carried out to answer two research questions: (1) what is the relationship between the internal forms of engagement (cognitive-affective) and students’ academic success (represented ...  بیشتر

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The Comparative Effect of Practicing Cooperative Learning and Critical Thinking on EFL Learners’ Writing

مونا خبیری؛ مینا فیروز

دوره 1، شماره 2 ، دی 1392، صفحه 371-394

چکیده
  During the last decades various researchers noticed that the traditional approaches to teaching had failed to teach learners to their utmost actual ability, therefore they put great efforts into developing post-modernist approaches and techniques such as critical thinking (CT) and cooperative learning (CL) for improving learning.The present study was an attempt to investigate the comparative effect of practicing CL and CT skills on EFL learners’ writing in a process-based approach to writing on EFL learners’ writing. Sixty Iranian female EFL learners at the intermediate level of English ...  بیشتر