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Books by Servat Shirkhani

Interactive Reading provides English learners with interesting mostly authentic passages. It teac... more Interactive Reading provides English learners with interesting mostly authentic passages. It teaches reading comprehension skills through various types of reading comprehension activities, such as guessing meaning, paraphrasing, making inferences, finding main ideas, and relating titles to passages.

Papers by Servat Shirkhani

This study examined the oral communication strategies (OCS) employed by Iranian intermediate Engl... more This study examined the oral communication strategies (OCS) employed by Iranian intermediate English as a foreign language (EFL) learners and the relationship between the use of these strategies and the learners’ self-efficacy beliefs and anxiety level. To this end, 160 participants were selected through convenience sampling. Next, three questionnaires were employed to determine the strategies the participants employ for coping with speaking and listening problems, their anxiety level, and their general self-efficacy. The results indicated that the most and the least frequently used strategies were “accuracy-oriented” and “massage abandonment” strategies when facing speaking problems and “word-oriented” and “fluency-oriented” strategies when confronting speaking problems. In addition, the results showed a significant positive relationship between OCSs and self-efficacy beliefs of the learners and a significant negative relationship between OCSs and their anxiety level. The findings...

i-manager’s Journal on English Language Teaching, Mar 15, 2012

i-manager’s Journal on English Language Teaching, Sep 15, 2011

i-manager’s Journal on English Language Teaching, 2014

i-manager’s Journal on English Language Teaching, 2011

Journal of new advances in English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, Sep 1, 2020

International Journal of Language and Linguistics, Sep 2, 2014

i-manager’s Journal on English Language Teaching, Dec 15, 2013

This study compared the efficacy of explicit and implicit instruction of requestive strategies on... more This study compared the efficacy of explicit and implicit instruction of requestive strategies on upper-intermediate female English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ email writing development. Sixty-two participants in four intact classes were randomly assigned to two explicit and implicit groups. In this quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design study two email evaluation tests and two written discourse completion tests (WDCT) were used to collect the data. In the pretest phase, an email evaluation test and a WDCT were administered to the participants in two sessions. Next, the two groups were provided with ten treatment sessions. The explicit group received direct instruction and metapragmatic explanation on the use of appropriate requestive strategies in writing emails. The implicit group, however, received instruction on writing requestive emails without any explicit explanation about the requestive strategies in emailing. Then, the participants took the posttest of email e...

Journal on English Language Teaching, 2020

Vocabulary is one of the language components with which many learners have problems. The present ... more Vocabulary is one of the language components with which many learners have problems. The present study compared the effect of note taking and semantic mapping on vocabulary learning and retention of intermediate Iranian EFL learners. A total number of 98 took a proficiency test and based on its scores, 74 more homogeneous learners were selected as the participant of the study. The participants were then non-randomly assigned to two experimental groups and a control group. Note taking and semantic mapping were used each in one of the experimental groups while the control group used none of the strategies. A pre-test, a post-test, and a delayed posttest were employed to assess the efficiency of the strategies. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and one-way ANOVAs. The results showed that note taking and semantic mapping strategies had no significantly different effects on the participants' vocabulary learning and vocabulary retention. However, note takin...

i-manager’s Journal on English Language Teaching, Jun 15, 2015

Corrective feedback (CF) has shown to be an effective way of developing learners' pragmatic a... more Corrective feedback (CF) has shown to be an effective way of developing learners' pragmatic awareness and subsequently pragmatic competence. However, one of the influential factors in the effectiveness of CF is teacher perceptions. On the other hand, teachers' perceptions are not always reflected in their teaching practices. Therefore, this study attempted to investigate the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers' perceptions of pragmatic corrective feedback and to compare their perception with their practice of pragmatic corrective feedback. To achieve this goal, a 44-item questionnaire was developed, piloted, and administered to 300 teachers and analyzed quantitatively in terms of the five components of the questionnaire which dealt with the teachers' perceptions of pragmatic corrective feedback. Furthermore, class recordings of 40 of these teachers were analyzed in terms of their ways of treating pragmatic errors. The findings revealed that the teachers had ...

Iranian Journal of Applied Linguistics