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Due to the potent role of critical thinking in learners’ academic success and its connection with factors conducive to learning such as argumentation ability, the present study seeks to primarily probe the correlation between Iranian EFL learners’ critical thinking ability and their argumentative writing achievement, and investigate the predictability of the students’ argumentative writing achievement based on their scores on critical thinking scale. Furthermore, the effect of gender on Iranian EFL learners’ argumentative writing achievement was investigated. In so doing, 'Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal' (2002) as well as an argumentative writing assignment was employed, and the participants of the study included 178 EFL learners in three universities in Mashhad, Iran. Structure Equation Modeling (SEM) was utilized to analyze the data. The results substantiated the positive correlation between critical thinking ability and argumentative writing revealing that these two variables significantly and positively related to each other; among the predictors (subscales of the critical thinking) of argumentative writing, inference, assumptions, arguments were the stronger predictors. Finally, gender was not found to significantly affect Iranian EFL learners’ argumentative writing achievement. The conclusions and implications of this study are pointed out with reference to foreign language teaching context.

Since the emergence of the process-oriented approach to second language writing instruction two main questions have been what and how error feedback should be given to the students. The question of whether teachers should provide feedback on grammar in the writing assignments of English as a foreign language students, and if so how, has been a matter of considerable debate in the field of second language writing. The present study investigated the possible effect of implicit and explicit corrective feedback on descriptive writing accuracy of Iranian intermediate EFL learners (N=39) in Hamedan Islamic Azad University. Two groups were selected: explicit corrective feedback group (N=22) and implicit corrective feedback group (N=17). They received corrective feedback on three grammatical structures. The results showed that written corrective feedback can lead to writing accuracy improvement in the short-term, but it may be unhelpful in the long-run.

هدف پژوهش حاضر مطالعه رابطه ی بین استفاده از راهکارهای شناختی و فراشناختی توسط آزمون شوندگان و عملکرد آنها در آزمون خواندن و درک مطلب بود. پژوهشگران از ابزارهای ذیل برای جمع آوری داده های خودکاوانه و پس کاوانه از شرکت کنندگان در پژوهش استفاده کردند: (1) آزمون جندگزینه ای خواندن و درک مطلب، (2) چک لیست حاوی راهکارهای خاص که باید بلافاصله پس از انتخاب هر گزینه مورد استفاده قرارمی گرفت، (3) چک لیست حاوی راهکارهای عامتر که باید بعد از اتمام آزمون مورد استفاده قرار می گرفت. نتایج نشان داد که آزمون شوندگان از راهکارهای منتهی به پاسخ درست و راهکارهای منتهی به پاسخ نادرست استفاده کرده اند. الگوی استفاده از راهکارها نشانگر گرایش آزمون شوندگان به استفاده بیشتر از راهکار ""بازگشت به متن خواندنی"" به عنوان راهکاری که به پاسخ درست منتهی می شود و راهکار ""حدس"" به عنوان راهکاری که به پاسخ نادرست منتهی می شود می باشد. نتایج همچنین نشان می دهند که عملکرد راهکارهای دوگانه فوق هنگام مقایسه در دو آزمون ساده و مشکل متفاوت است.