THE IMPACT OF FORM FOCUSED DISCOVERY APPROACH ON EFL LEARNERS ‘SPEAKING ABILITY………………………………………………………………………………………………………...10
Touran Ahour
Leila Mostafaee
A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF INTER- AND INTRA-CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS OF TEXTBOOKS: INSIGHTS FROM IRAN…………………………………………………………………...20
Zahra Alimorad
THE EFFECT OF WRITTEN CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK ON THE WRITING PERFORMANCE OF IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS………………………………………………………………………………..…28
Sara Amiramini
Batoul Ghanbari
Mohammad Reza Shamsoddini
CHILD LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT FROM SOCIOCULTURAL THEORY POINT OF VIEW……………………………………………………………………………………………………………36
Zahra Asvad
Firooz Sadighi
CROSS-LINGUISTIC INVESTIGATION OF REQUEST SPEECH ACTS AMONG NATIVE PERSIAN AND ENGLISH SPEAKERS…………………………………………………………………….43
Shiler Yazdanfar
Alireza Bonyadi
SOME TENTATIVE SUGGESTIONS FOR LOCALIZING EFL TEXTBOOKS IN CONTEXT OF IRAN…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….55
Sepeedeh Hanifehzadeh
Sara Ebrahimi
Arezu Haji maghsudi
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS AND ELEMENTS OF SOCIAL CONTEXT IN FOUR CORNERS SERIES, TOP NOTCH SERIES, INTERCHANGE SERIES, AND ILI TEXTBOOKS FROM A PRAGMATIC POINT OF VIEW…………………………………………...63
Vida Ezatzadegan
Seyed Jamal Abdorrahimzadeh
Mohammad Amin Sorahi
TEST FORM AND ESP: A STUDY OF IRANIAN UNDERGRADUATE BUSINESS MANAGEMENT STUDENT’S TRANSLATION SCORES…………………………………………….82
Masoomeh Fathi
Ramin Rahimi
COMPARING THE USE OF PERSUASIVE SPEECH ACT BY IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS' AT TWO DIFFERENT LEVELS OF LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY……………………………………….…89
Hadis Fendereski
Fateme Behjat
Arash Zareiaan
THE EFFECT OF TEACHER CREATIVITY ON SELF-ESTEEM OF BEGINNER EFL LEARNERS……………………………………………………………………………………………………100
Khadijeh Ghaffari
CONCEPTUALIZING WILLINGNESS TO COMMUNICATE: A QUANTITATIVE INVESTIGATION OF ENGLISH-LANGUAGE MAJOR STUDENTS………………………………103
Ali Asghar Ghasemi
Faezeh Vahedi Kermanshahi
Mehdi Moharami
THE EFFECTS OF BRAINSTORMING STRATEGY ON WRITING SKILL OF IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS……………………………………………………………………………………………………111
Masoud Khalilii
Abdoreza Tahriri
Elham Ghorbanpour
THE EFFECT OF ORAL VERSUS WRITTEN ERROR FEEDBACK ON PARAGRAPH WRITING ABILITY OF IRANIAN LOW-INTERMEDIATE EFL LEARNERS…………………………………...125
Besat Hamtaei
Ramin Rahimy
ITEM RESPONSE THEORY (IRT): STATE OF THE ART…………………………………………..…134
Pooneh Heydari
THE IMPACT OF SELF-ASSESSMENT ON EFL LEARNERS' CRITICAL THINKING…………………………………………………………………………………………………...145
Zahra Jafari
Samira Yavari
S. Dariush Ahmadi
ATTITUDES OF IRANIAN ADMINISTARAORS, STUDENTS AND TEACHERS TOWARDS THE USE OF INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARDS IN EFL CLASSROOMS, A CASE STUDY IN ANDIMSHK HIGH SCHOOLS…………………………………………………………………………....150
Gholam-Ali Kalanzadeh
Gholam Valizadeh
THE EFFECT OF TEACHING STANDARD PERSIAN-ENGLISH COGNATE WORDS ON INCREASING LEXICAL KNOWLEDGE IN IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS…………………………..170
Amirsaleh Kamali
THE EFFECT OF EMPLOYING LEXICAL MODIFICATION TECHNIQUES ON INCIDENTAL VOCABULARY LEARNING IN IRANIAN EFL CONTEXT………………………………………….179
Mohammad Saber Khaghaninejad
Elham Teymoori
THE IMPACT OF CODE SWITCHING ON ELEMENTARY EFL STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL………………………………………………………………………………………………………….190
Mohammad Reza Khodashenas
Mahnaz Shahroody
A GENRE ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC DEATH ANNOUNCEMENTS IN TABRIZ…………………..195
Biook Behnam
Khodaverdi Alizadeh
ATTITUDE OF IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS AND TEACHERS TOWARDS USING MOVIE CLIPS IN TEACHING IDIOMS……………………………………………………………………………………202
Masoud Mahmoodi-Shahrebabaki
Zeynab Mahmoodi
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EFL TEACHERS’ IDEALITY AND EFL LEARNERS’ ACHIEVEMENT…………………………………………………………………………………………..…211
Ataollah Maleki
Tahmine Ahmadlou
THE EFFECT OF GLOSSING TECHNIQUE ON INCIDENTAL VOCABULARY RETENTION, A COMPARISON BETWEEN TEXTUAL AND MULTI-MEDIA GLOSSES……………………………………………………………………………………………………..222
Zhaleh Moazzeni
Mohammad Sadegh Bagheri
Firooz Sadighi
Mostafa Zamanian
INVESTIGATING EFL LEARNERS’ PERCEPTION OF NEEDS: NECESSITIES, WANTS, AND LACKS IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGE SKILLS TAUGHT IN GENERAL ENGLISH COURSES……………………………………………………………………………………………..………236
Touran Ahour
Fatemeh Mohseni
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF METADISCOURSE MARKERS IN SOME SELECTED NEWS PROGRAMS ON VOA: THE CASE OF REGULAR ENGLISH PROGRAMS VS. SPECIAL ENGLISH PROGRAMS…………………………………………………………………………………….242
Biook Behnam
Nasrin Mollanaghizadeh
TECHNOLOGY AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING (ELT)……………………………….…256
Akram Kazemi
Mehry Haddad Narafshan
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SECOND LANGUAGE(L2) LEARNERS’ MOTIVATION AND LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES WITH L2 WRITING ABILITY OF THE STUDENTS OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY AT SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES…………………………………………………………………………………………………..…266
Sepideh Nourinezhad
Ali Asghar Kargar
Mohammad Rostampour
THE STUDY OF READING STRATEGIES BY EXTROVERT AND INTROVERT INTERMEDIATE EFL LEARNERS IN CHALOUS CITY, IRAN……………………………………...283
Mansoure Roudgarsaffari
LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION; MISCELLANEOUS APPROACHES…………………………………………………………………………………………….….295
Mohammad Reza Sadeghi
The EFFECTS OF PERSONALITY TYPE ON TRANSLATION QUALITY BASED ON THE FIVE FACTOR MODEL……………………………………………………………………………………………301
Elham Sahebi Poor
Ehsan Rasaee
INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN IRANIAN ESP TEACHERS' SELF-EFFICACY AND THEIR EXPERTISE…………………………………………………………………..…319
Seyedeh Sara Jafari
Ali Asghar Kargar
Mohammad Rostampour
USE OF METACOGNITIVE READING STRATEGIES BY IRANIAN EFL STUDENTS……………………………………………………………………………………………………330
Batool ShamsiNejad
Jahanbakhsh Langroudi
RezaPasha Moghimizadeh
ON THE CORRELATION BETWEEN IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS ' SELF-REGULATION CAPACITY AND THEIR SELF EFFICACY………………………………………………………………342
Moharram Sharifi
Saeedeh Ahangary
MIND MAP SOFTWARE: A NOTE-TAKING STRATEGY FOR LEARNING COMMON MEDICAL PREFIXES………………………………………………………………………………….….…351
Akbar Solati
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE LEARNING AND CRITICAL THINKING OF EFL LEARNERS……………………………………………………………………………………………………357
Samira Yavari
Hamid Gholami
EXPLICIT TEACHING AND FORM-MEANING CONNECTIONS IN SLA: THE CASE OF ENGLISH PREPOSITIONS IN AND INTO……………………………………………………………...362
Morteza Saraee
Behzad Nazari
TEACH-TO-TEST INSTRUCTION OF DYNAMIC ASSESSMENT: A CRITICAL MOVEMENT TO RAISE GRAMMAR……………………………………………………………………………………..369
Mohammad Reza Khodabakhsh
Behzad Nazari
EFL LEARNERS’ WRITING ACCURACY: THE EFFECTS OF GUIDED VS. UNGUIDED PRESSURED PLANNING………………………………………………………………………………..…385
Zhila Mohammadnia
Parisa Ayaz