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Investigating the relationship between depth and breadth of vocabulary knowledge and listening comprehension across different proficiency levels among Iranian EFL learners
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)
This study was an attempt to investigate the particular role of learners’ depth and breadth of vocabulary
knowledge in their listening comprehension. Moreover, it also sought to find out whether there is any
difference ...
Cooperative and competitive teaching techniques affecting iranian EFL learners’ autonomy level
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)
This study investigated the effects of competitive and cooperative teaching techniques on Iranian adult EFL
learners’ autonomy. To this end, a sample of 88 non-English major university students at Sohrevardi Nonprofit
College ...
The status quo of teacher-training courses in the Iranian EFL context: a focus on models of professional education and dynamic assessment
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)
Given that Teacher-Training Courses (TTC’s) have responsibility for assisting prospective teachers with
building up a repertoire of technical & pedagogic knowledge, the systematically evaluation of such courses
is regarded ...
How computer technology transforms writing performance: an integration of the process/genre approach and blogs in EFL writing courses
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)
This quasi-experimental research examined the effects of the process/genre approach (PGA) with the
integration of blogs in EFL university-level students’ writing classrooms. This was a mixed-method study in
which the ...
Towards an understanding of target language use in the EFL classroom: a report from Norway
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)
For a considerable number of years, mother tongue (MT) use has been ostracized in English as a foreign
language (EFL) classrooms as a form of poor teaching that negatively affects target language (TL)
acquisition (McMillan ...
Using ICT to contact the target culture: teachers’ view
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)
While information and communication technologies (ICT) have made speakers of and content from the
target foreign culture easily accessible to learners and teachers alike, they may cause conditions for FL
teachers. This ...
The long way to bilingualism: the peculiar case of multilingual South Tyrol
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)
In the present contribution we discuss the challenges and the results of learning a second language in
South Tyrol, the multilingual border region in northern Italy where the autochthonous German- and Ladinspeaking
communities ...
Vocabulary knowledge learning and reading comprehension performance: which one is superior - breadth or depth?
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)
Reading has been and is a demanding task for foreign language learners. Correspondingly, vocabulary
knowledge plays an extremely vital role in foreign language learning and numerous researchers have
investigated the ...
English for academic purposes for the construction of students’ scientific identity
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)
Modern Europe is considered within such three strategic priorities (Moedas, 2015) as Open Innovation,
Open Science, and Openness to the World. These three strategic priorities put a particular emphasis on the
construction ...
Official pedagogy, foreign language teaching and literacy: a functionalist perspective
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)
The theoretical framework that informs this paper is systemic functional linguistics (Halliday, 1994,
Mathiessen, 1995 and Halliday and Mathiessen, 2004). This paper is not meant to be a guide for foreign
language teachers ...