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“You must be crazy!” Teacher Corrective Feedback and Student Uptake in Two Tanzanian Secondary Schools

Gastor Cosmas Mapunda; Elizabeth Kyara

Volume 10, Issue 4 , October 2023, Pages 1-20

https://doi.org/10.30479/jmrels.2023.18556.2188

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  This study aimed at investigating teachers’ behaviours that co-occur with the oral corrective feedback strategies and their influence on the students’ responses to oral corrective feedback (OCF) in teaching English in Tanzanian secondary schools. In Tanzania English is a foreign language, ...  Read More

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A High Frequency Word List for Political Sciences

Reza Bagheri Nevisi; Mahmood Safari; Rasoul Mohammad Hosseinpur; Reyhaneh Mousakazemi

Volume 10, Issue 4 , October 2023, Pages 21-43

https://doi.org/10.30479/jmrels.2023.18213.2161

Abstract
  Recent research favors specific academic word lists over a general academic word list for preparing university students to read and publish academic papers in English. Although researchers have developed word lists for various disciplines, some academic fields do not enjoy a well-developed technical ...  Read More

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A Linguistic Error Analysis of ESL Written Essays by Indian Tamil University Students

ASTERIA GABRIEL NGAIZA

Volume 10, Issue 4 , October 2023, Pages 45-59

https://doi.org/10.30479/jmrels.2023.18208.2160

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  Although many ESL university students know grammar rules, most cannot write competently. Meanwhile, effective writing would affect students' overall academic performance. This article examined the written errors of the Indian Tamil learners of English as their Second Language (ESL). The study adopted ...  Read More

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A Study on the Development and Validation of an EAP Teachers Identity Questionnaire in the Iranian Context

Hanieh Azizi; Neda Hedayat; Neda Gharagozloo

Volume 10, Issue 4 , October 2023, Pages 61-86

https://doi.org/10.30479/jmrels.2023.17932.2134

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  The importance of studying teachers’ identity is to guide teachers to choose an appropriate methodology to teach as well as to lead learners to learn the target language which is related to notion of identity. The present study was an attempt to develop and validate an identity questionnaire regarding ...  Read More

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The Impact of Peer Corrective Feedback on Extroverted and Introverted Iranian Elementary L2 Learners’ Reading Comprehension

Afshin Mansouri Qadikolaei; Amir Marzban

Volume 10, Issue 4 , October 2023, Pages 87-111

https://doi.org/10.30479/jmrels.2023.17541.2095

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  There seems to be a link between the type of corrective feedback students receive in the classroom and their personality styles. The current study investigated the effect of peer corrective feedback on the reading comprehension of extroverted and introverted Iranian elementary L2 learners. At first, ...  Read More

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The Effects of Three Types of Flipped Learning through Shad Application on EFL Learners’ Lexical and Grammatical Achievement

Mahmoud Nabilou; Abbas Ali Zarei

Volume 10, Issue 4 , October 2023, Pages 113-133

https://doi.org/10.30479/jmrels.2023.18868.2219

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  This study explored the effect of three models of flipped learning through shad application on lexical and grammatical knowledge of Iranian high school EFL learners. 120 male pre-intermediate English learners took part in the study. They were placed in four groups (three experimental and one control) ...  Read More

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Unveiling the Argumentative Nature of Meta-Analysis in Applied Linguistics: An Argument Mining Approach

Arsalan Yaghoobi; Mohammad Amini Farsani; Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli; Ali Asghar Taghizadeh

Volume 10, Issue 4 , October 2023, Pages 135-162

https://doi.org/10.30479/jmrels.2023.18873.2222

Abstract
  Despite paradigmatic research advancements and movements in applied linguistics, the issue of rhetoric, which serves as one of the fundamental pillars of each paradigm, remains largely unaccounted for. Considering the commensurability of argumentation and meta-analysis, coupled with the increasing rate ...  Read More

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Using a Process-Based approach to Teaching Paragraph Development: Composing Strategies and L1/L2 Transferability in Focus

Hajar Ghafarpour; Reza Biria

Volume 10, Issue 4 , October 2023, Pages 163-182

https://doi.org/10.30479/jmrels.2023.18063.2147

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  The writing process is founded principally upon language learners’ decision making behaviors that are believed to be under the influence of their first language (L1) experiences. Hence, the main objectives of this study are (a) to investigate the extent to which activating cognitive processing ...  Read More