سنجش پویا در نظریه ی فرهنگی اجتماعی ویگوتسکی به عنوان رویکردی نوین در سیستم آموزش و سنجش............................................ 12
مجید عامریان
احسان مهری
THE EFFECT OF SEMANTIC MAPPING STRATEGY ON EFL LEARNERS’ VOCABULARY LEARNING…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…..23
Farhang Aghaei
THE IMPORTANCE OF SILENCE IN CONVERSATIONS……………………………………………………...……30
Biook Behnam
Khodaverdi Alizadeh
ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WILLINGNESS TO COMMUNICATE AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE: A CASE OF IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS…………………………………………………………..…36
Fatemeh Alsadat Amini
Zahra Sabber
COLLABORATIVE OR INDIVIDUALISTIC WRITING: WHICH ONE IS A BETTER VENUE TO IMPROVE IRANIAN PRE-UNIVERSITY FEMALE STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL?.........................................................................................................................................................................................46
M. Rostampour, F. Behjat, Saeedeh Arvane
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF UNIVERSITY AND INSTITUTE EFL STUDENTS’ USE OF GAMBITS……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..55
Zohre G. Shooshtari, Mehran Memari, Bita Asadi
ON ETYMOLOGICAL ELABORATION AND ITS POTENTIAL EFFECT ON THE IRANIAN EFL LEARNER’S KNOWLEDGE OF OPAQUE IDIOMS……………………………………………………………………………….…..63
Sherwin Atrchian
Hamed Babaie Shalmani
THE EFFECT OF METADISCOURSE AWARENESS ON EFL LEARNERS’ LISTENING COMPREHENSION PERFORMANCE………………………………………………………………………..……………………………………69
Zohreh Seifoori
Maryam Babapour
THE STUDY ON THE ROLE OF READING COMPREHENSION STRATEGY INSTRUCTION ON ENGLISH READING COMPREHENSION DEVELOPMENT AMONG INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS………………………………………………………………………………………………….………………..75
Fariba Mohammad Derakhti, Masoud Sharififar, Reza Pasha Moghimizade
A CROSS CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF NEWSPAPERS HEADLINES ON IRAN AND 5+1’S Geneva DEAL IN TERMS OF ATTITUDINAL FEATURES………………………………………………………………………………..88
Biook Behnam
Shokoufeh Abbasi Dogolsara
ON THE EFFECTS OF PAIR WORK ON EFL LEARNERS' WRITING………………………..……………………100
Erfaneh Eftekharian, Farhad Tayebipour
AN ALTERNATIVE STANDPOINT ON THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN MP AND SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR: A MATTER OF DIVERGENCE OR OTHERWISE?...............................................................................113
Mohieddin Manouchehr Eghbalitabar
A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF AMERICAN AND PERSIAN COMPLIMENT SPEECH ACT…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….……...120
Zohreh Seifoori
Seyed Emad Emadi
YOU ARE WHAT YOU BELIEVE, TOWARDS A NEW IDENTITY ISLAMIC IDENTITY…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….132
Biook Behnam
Seyed Emad Emadi
INTERMEDIATE EFL LEARNERS’ LISTENING PERFORMANCE VIEWED IN THE LIGHT OF METACOGNITIVE STRATEGY INSTRUCTION……………………………………………………………….……..140
Sima Farhadi
Masoud Zoghi
Zahra Talebi
TEACHERS' CRITERIA VERSUS STUDENTS' CRITERIA IN SPEECH ACT RATING…………………………………………………………………………………………….……………………..…147
Jalil Fat'hi
Katayoun Parsa
Niloufar Shahmirzadi
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN IRANIAN EFL TEACHERS’ SELF-EFFICACY AND BURNOUT AND POSSIBLE DIFFERENCES WITH RESPECT TO DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….……164
Rozhin Ghaslani
CATEGORY PROMPT TASK AND REACTION TIME TO LEXICAL MEANING: AN INVESTIGATION OF IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS’ LEXICAL KNOWLEDGE IN L1 AND L2……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………....174
Seddigheh Golmohammadi
Ramin Rahimy
THE EFFECT OF EXPLICIT INSTRUCTIONS ON PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE OF REQUEST…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….179
Hamid Reza Khalaji
Maasomeh Jaafari Golnesaei
THE STUDY OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIFFERENT GENRES AND OPEN- ENDED CLOZE TEST…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..……….189
Saedeh Ahangari
Farhad Golpour
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REFLECTIVE TEACHING AND EFL TEACHERS’ EVALUATION OF STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT…………………………………………………………………………………………….195
Hooshang Yazdani, Majid Amerian, Ahmad Hadadi THE EFFECT OF TEACHING CIRCUMLOCUTION TASK ON IRANIAN UPPER-INTERMEDIATE LEARNERS’ CONVERSATION ABILITY……………………………………………………………………………….208 Fahimeh Haghighi , Shahrokh Jahandar
EFFECTS OF NARRATIVE COMPLEXITY AND TASK STRUCTURE ON EFL LEARNERS' WRITTEN PERFORMANCE…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….214
Sedigheh Haghjou
THE EFFECTS OF FLASHCARDS ON THE EFL HIGH SCHOOL FEMALE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE AND READING ABILITY……………………………………………………………………….……..232
Rouya Hamzehbagi , Alireza Bonyadi
THE EFFECT OF SUMMARY WRITING AS A CRITICAL READING STRATEGY ON READING COMPREHENSION OF IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS………………………………………………………………….240
Fatemeh Hassanloo
Marjan Heydarpour Meymeh
A SURVEY ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CRITICAL THINKING AND READING COMPREHENSION PROFICIENCY OF IRANIAN EFL STUDENTS…………………………..………….……246
Mehdi Kargar
Mostafa Zamanian
AN EVALUATION OF COMMONLY USED GENERAL ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS OF IRANIAN UNIVERSITY CONTEXTS……………………………………………………………………………………………………………....…..257
Sadegh Karimi, Ali Asghar Kargar and Fatemeh Behjat
EFFECTS OF GLOSSARY ON IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS’ ENGLISH WRITING SKILL…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….……265
Zahra Kheradmand Saadi
Pegah Safae
Saeed Mehrpour
Modern Journal of Language Teaching Methods ISSN: 2251-6204
Vol. 5, Issue 3, September 2015 Page 10
WHICH GRAMMAR TEXTBOOK BEST FITS MY ATTITUDE TOWARD FORM-FOCUSED INSTRUCTION? A CASE OF IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS…………………………………………………………………………………272
Zahra Kheradmand Saadi
Naser Rashidi
THE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS OF PLAGIARISM IN ESP/EAP COURSES……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..281
Marzieh Mehrnoush
Anita Lashkarian
A COMPARATIVE SEMANTIC-SYNTACTIC INVESTIGATION INTO THE CHARACTERISTIC OF ADJECTIVAL COLLOCATIONS IN IRANIAN EFL STUDENTS' ACADEMIC WRITING……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….……286
Homayoun Moayedi
Marjan Heydarpour Meymeh
THE IMPACT OF OPEN-ENDED DISCOVERY ACTIVITIES ON EFL LEARNERS’ SPEAKING ABILITY…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….………..297
Zohreh Seifori
Leila Mostafaee
THE EFFECT OF ASSESSMENT PORTFOLIOS ON THE PARAGRAPH WRITING DEVELOPMENT OF IRANIAN INTERMEDIATE EFL LEARNERS………………………………………………………………..…….…..306
Parviz Behrouzi
Rohollah Mowlavian
THE EFFECT OF USING PICTURE-WORD-INDUCTION METHOD (PWIM) ON IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS’ LEXICAL KNOWLEDGE………………………………………………………………………………..………………..321
Leila Nikbin, Ramin Rahimy
HOW CHILDREN ACQUIRE LANGUAGE, A LITERATURE REVIEW………………………….………………327
Ahmad Reza Lotfi
Ali Asghar Pourakbari
SENTENCE CONTEXTUALIZATION V s. TABULAR TEACHING OF PARTS OF SPEECH: THE EFFECT ON IRANIAN UPPER INTERMEDIATE EFL LEARNERS' KNOWLEDGE OF GRAMMATICAL FUNCTION…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…..336
Azita Pourrahimi, Ramin Rahimy
THE IMPACT OF WILLINGNESS TO COMMUNICATE (WTC) ON IRANIAN UPPER INTERMEDIATE EFL LEARNER'S SPEAKING ABILITY………………………………………………………………………..……………342
Shahrokh Jahandar
Davoud Rahimzadeh
COLLABORATIVE LEARNING, COLLABORATIVE TEACHING & AUTONOMY: A SURVEY STUDY ON ENGLISH AS A SECOND / FOREIGN LANGUAGE……………………………………………………….………..348
Shamsi Bagheri, Narges Pour Rostami, Soraya Jalil Pour Kivy, Elham Raji Lahiji
A GENRE ANALYSIS OF DEATH ANNOUNCEMENTS IN AN IRANIAN DAILY……………….………...…356
Biook Behnam
Milad Ramezani
THE EFFICACY OF VARIOUS TYPES OF CORRECTION FEEDBACK FOR IMPROVING GRAMMATICAL FEATURE……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…….365
Zahra Sabber
Fatemeh Alsadat Amini
ON THE CORRELATION BETWEEN IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS’ SELF ESTEEM AND TEST ANXIETY………………………………………………………………………………………………..……………………373
Saeedeh Ahangary
Moharram Sharifi
THE EFFECT OF FSP_ BASED TEACHING OF DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH ON IRANIAN EFL LEARNER’S KNOWLEDGE OF DIRECT/INDIRECT SPEECH…………………………………………….……….380
Somayeh Soleymanpour, Ramin Rahimy
THE EFFECT OF SELF-ASSESSMENT ON IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS` READING COMPREHENSION SKILL………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….388
Rozhin Ghaslani
INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN READING FLUENCY AND READING COMPREHENSION IN IRANIAN INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED LEARNERS……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………394
Mojdeh Sultan Es-hagh
Fereydoon Vahdany
EbrahimEzzati
PARADIGM SHIFT AND IMPLICATIONS FOR TEACHERS……………………………………………………….403
Zahra Talebi
Masoud Zoghi
Sima Farhadi
IRANIAN PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVE OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF EXAMS: MULTIPLE CHOICE, ESSAY AND COMPUTERIZED-TYPE TESTING……………………………………..…………………...408
Saeideh Ahangari
Mohammad Ali Yaghchi
THE EFFECT of EXPLICIT TEACHING VS IMPLICIT TEACHING ON IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS' KNOWLEDGE OF MODAL VERBS………………………………………………………………….………………….420
Mohaddeseh Asheghian
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PERSIAN FEMALES AND MALES' SPEECH PATTERNS WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN LINGUISTIC FEATURES SUCH AS EMPTY ADJECTIVES……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…..434
Farideh Ataeifar
EVALUATION OF THE NEW IRANIAN HIGH SCHOOL SERIES BOOKS BASED ON BLOOMS'S REVISED TAXONOMY : PROSPECT ONE IN FOCUS……………………………………………………………….……………439
Narges Baktash, Mohammad Reza Talebinejad
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND TEACHERS’ DISCIPLINE STRATEGIES IN EFL CLASSES………………………………………..…………………………………………………………………………….446
Sepideh Berenji
Nasser Ghafoori
THE EFFECT OF PRE-WRITING ACTIVITIES ON IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS' PARAGRAPH COHERENCE………………………………………………………………………………………………………….……..453
Shiva Borjikhani Avanaki
Ramin Rahimy
THE EFFECT OF SELF-REGULATED STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT (SRSD) ON ACADEMIC WRITING SKILL OF EFL UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS………………………………………………………….…….…….462
Adel Dastgoshadeh
Arman Bozorgi
TEACHER STRATEGIES IN IMPROVING SPEAKING ABILITY FO EFL LEARNERS IN IRAN (COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO ENGLISH INSTITUTES)…………………………………………………………470
Gohar Darvishi