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Lexical inferencing is one of the most important strategies in vocabulary learning and it plays an important role in dealing with unknown words in a text. In this regard, the aim of this study was to determine the lexical inferencing strategies used by Iranian EFL learners when they encounter unknown words at both text and sentence levels. To this end, forty lower intermediate students were divided into two groups. For the first group, a text with 10 underlined words was given and for the second group, the same underlined words were given in separate sentences. The students were supposed to read the text and the sentences and to guess the meaning of the underlined words. Then some lexical inferencing strategies were given to them to determine which strategies they used in guessing the meaning of unknown words. The results showed that they used different strategies like using local context and word association in lexical inferencing and also they were more successful at the text level than the sentence one. The results also indicated that they were strategic learners using their own strategies including translation and cultural background knowledge to guess the meaning of the unknown words.

This mini-corpus, cross-linguistic, comparative, and norm-referenced study intends to render the most frequently and oft-used affixes in the written descriptive tasks in the performance of English language materials developers (ELMDs) and Iranian English language undergraduates (IELUs). Samples of writings of both groups were studied and analyzed through affixation principles. The frequency of nearly 63 affixes both inflectional and derivational morphemes was taken into account. The statistical analysis showed a highly significant correlation (.86) with (.75) coefficient determination (shared variance) between the performance of IELUs and ELMDs. The result of the study bears approximately a close resemblance to the findings by Bauer et al.(1982), Fry and Kress (2006), Honig, Diamond, Gutlohn, and Mahler (2000), and White, Sowell, and Yanagihara (1989). Finally, the implications of the study were taken into account.

انسان، همواره به لحاظ ماهیت زندگی اجتماعی اش، برای برقراری ارتباط با همنوعان خود از ابزارها و وسایل متعددی استفاده کرده که در این میان "" زبان"" به عنوان یک پدیده اجتماعی (قوه ناطقه خاص بشر که نقطه تمایز او با نوع حیوان می باشد) مهمترین وسیله ارتباطی او محسوب شده که به واسطه آن نیات و مقاصد خود را به مخاطب خود انتقال می دهد. و اما اکنون سئوال این است؛ آیا متکلم (گویشور) همیشه، طی یک دیالوگ و تعامل با مخاطب خود، با ادای منظم واج ها و تکواژهای زبان در زنجیره گفتار صرفاً قصد استفهام، نفی و یا تأیید صوری حقیقتی را دارد؟ اینجاست که باید اذعان کرد که در اوایل دهه 60 قرن بیستم میلادی، به دنبال تحقیقات ج. ل. آستین فیلسوف و زبانشناس بریتانیایی، زبانشناسی و نقد ادبی با فاصله زیاد از نظریات ساختارگرایانه فردینان دو سوسور رویکرد دیگری به خود گرفته و بدین طریق پایه های زبانشناسی پراگماتیک بنا شد. آستین بر این باور بود که سخن گفتن همیشه تنها و فقط و فقط به معنای تأیید چیزی یا حقیقتی نبوده، بلکه می تواند بطور ضمنی حامل پیام دیگری برای مخاطب بوده باشد، مثلاً درخواست انجام کاری یا القاء چیزی دیگر غیر از معنای سطحی کلام. معمولاً نیت و معنای اصلی کلام گوینده هم در این لایه های درونی گفتار مستتر است که مخاطب کلام باید طی فرآیند خاصی آن را رمزگشایی کرده و بدان واکنش معقول و منطقی نشان دهد، تا اینکه یک تعامل زبانی به معنای واقعی کلمه برقرار گردد. در این مقال اندک نگارنده تلاش خواهد کرد- ضمن توجه و تمرکز به این اصل که نمی توان همیشه و حکماً از طریق شکل ظاهری زبان (ساختواژه ها، واج ها، صیغه گان و عناصر همنشینی حاضر در زنجیره گفتار) به کشف معنا و نیت باطنی کلام گویشور(ان) دست یافت؛ بلکه پارامترهای مهمتر دیگری چون فضای روانی، اجتماعی و فرهنگی حاکم در یک تعامل زبانی نیز سهم بسزایی در رمزگشایی معنا دارند- اصطلاح «زبانشناسی پراگماتیک» را ریشه شناسی، تعریف و تحلیل کرده و به مسائلی از جمله: کلام استعاری و کنایی، حروف ربط استدلالی، معنای ضمنی و گزاره های اجرایی بپردازد.

The use of effective multimedia instructions such as mobiles, computers, and the internet in language learning has turned out to be useful since the last decades. The impact of multimedia and synchronous approaches of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' learning of language skills and components has been studied to some extent. However, the impact of computerized mediated instruction through multimedia (text and graphics) on learning collocations requires further investigations. This study aimed at investigating whether synchronous and asynchronous multimedia components: text and text with added graphics had any effects on EFL learners' learning of collocations. In doing so, 150 male EFL learners at pre-intermediate proficiency level were selected through convenience sampling. They were divided into six groups. The results of the study showed that computerized mediated instruction was more effective than non-computerized instruction. Also, synchronous computerized instruction was more effective than asynchronous computerized instruction. The results also showed that presentation through text with added graphics was more effective than presentation through simple text. The results are discussed and some pedagogical implications are presented.

EFL learners who loved to read newspapers but have difficulty in comprehending. Present paper is a study on the significance of special styles of newspapers’ writing that may contribute in decreasing reading and comprehension skills for EFL learners and also is primarily concerned with the language and style of newspaper reportage. Skilled readers don’t just read, they interact with the text. The present study aims to probe into this important issue by providing formal instruction of the strategies to a group of Iranian EFL learners and comparing their newspapers’ reading comprehension performance with another group not receiving such an instruction.