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Foreword: Profs. Askarzadeh and Robertson

   Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Iranian EFL Journal. This journal is the sister journal to the long established Asian EFL Journal and Linguistics Journal. We hope you support this new venture which adds a very important addition to the study and teaching of English as a foreign language in the Middle East areas. We also wish to hear from any academics who would like to serve on our Editorial team, for already the Iranian EFL Journal is drawing quite some considerable positive attention and  submissions are coming in.

   It is our intention to publish up to 4 times year, though this year, our inaugural year, we plan two editions. The first edition comes from articles that our sister journal the Asian EFL Journal, has published and has kindly granted permission, along with the authors, to re-print here.

   Each edition we will publish articles that cover a broad spectrum of second language acquisition learning and teaching articles. We encourage authors who are researching new areas of EFL to submit their work. The Iranian EFL Journal plans to hold, in conjunction with the Asian EFL Journal, an annual conference in Iran and other Middle Eastern countries where academics from across the globe can present on second language learning issues of international interest.

In this edition we publish 10 articles. We thank the authors for sharing their work and improving the knowledge and study of SLA. In our latter editions we will also present a Book Review section and Interview articles.

Paul Robertson
Time Taylor Corp

Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran

Volume 1. 2008.

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Foreword: Drs. Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh and Paul Robertson                         

1. Massoud Rahimpour & Massoud Yaghoubi-Notash
- Examining Gender-based Variability in Task-prompted, Monologic L2 Oral Performance

2. Ali Jahangard - Evaluation of EFL Materials  Taught at Iranian Public High Schools

3.  Javad Golami & Farraman Farrokhi - Reactive and Preemptive Language Related Episodes and Uptake in an EFL Class

4. Abdullah Ali Al-Eryani - Refusal Strategies by Yemeni EFL Learners                      

5. Masoud Khalili Sabet and Manijeh Youhanaee - The Relationship between  Syntactic Clustering of bligatory/Null
Subject Parameters and Proficiency Levels in L2 Acquisition: New Evidence from a Grammaticality Judgment Test

6. Karim Sadeghi - The Key for Successful Reader-writer Interaction: Factors Affecting Reading Comprehension in L2 Revisited

7. Ataollah Maleki & Ebrahim Zangani - A Survey on the Relationship between English Language Proficiency and the Academic Achievement of Iranian EFL Students

8. Abdolmehdi Riazi &  Mohammad Javad Riasati - Language Learning Style Preferences: A Students Case Study of Shiraz EFL Institutes

9. Nasrin Shokrpour &   Mohammad Hossein Fallahzadeh - A Survey of the Students and Interns’ EFL Writing Problems in Shiraz University of Medical Sciences

10. Ahmet Acar - Standards and Competence in English as an International Language Pedagogy

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