Volume 6-1. March 2010.

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Foreword:
Drs. Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh & Paul Robertson

Welcome to the first edition of the year 2010. The Iranian EFL Journal has had strong growth over the last few years with a monthly readership now exceeding 1,500 readers. For a new journal examining the topic of English second language acquisition from a local perspective, the growth and readership has been pleasing. Statistically, readers are coming from almost 80 countries. In the first issue of volume 6 we present seven articles for your reading. In the first article the authors, Mohammad Reza Atai and Mahboobeh Saberi report the results of a study which investigate the underlying traits of word recognition skills, probing their validity as predictors of reading ability.

In the second article the authors, Reza Pishghadam, Mohammad Reza Hashemi, and Mohammad Reza Adel, employing the qualitative design, examine the dominant classroom discourse in formal and informal contexts of second language education in Iran. The study analyzes the situation from the Bakhtinian discourse perspective.

Hassan Soodmand Afashar investigates the learning
vocabulary strategies most and least used by Iranian language learners. He also takes the role of gender into account. Next article by Jalilifar and Hashemian deals with the use and the function of discourse markers in interviews of Persian learners of English as a foreign language.

Marandi and Mokhtarnia, in their study, have attempted to find out the probable relationship between metacognitive awareness of hypertext reading strategies of Iranian EFL learners and their degrees of computer familiarity. In the next article, Zahedi and Khajooei have tried to investigate different aspects of collocations and Iranian EFL students’ performance at different levels of interchange Books in collocational cloze test.

Finally, Salimi, Tavakoli, and Ketabi aim at investigating how the judgment of collocational patterns is affected by noticing and whether the effect of noticing is
mediated by collocational complexity and proficiency level.

We hope you enjoy this edition and look forward to your readership.

1. Foreword: Dr. Paul Robertson and Dr. Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh

2. Mahmood Reza Atai and Mahbobeh Saberi.
The Contribution of Perceptual, Linguistic, and Cognitive Processing Skills to Early EFL Reading Development

3. Reza Pishghadam, Mohammad Reza Hashemi and S.M. Reza Adel. Dialogical Interaction in Formal and Informal Contexts: A Study in an EFL Situation

4. Hassan Soodmand Afshar. Iranian EFL Learners’ Most and Least Frequently-used Vocabulary Learning Strategies: The Relationship to Success and Gender

5. A. R. Jalilifar and M. Hashemian. Uh Well, You know, I Mean It: Discourse Markers Use by Non-Native Students in Interview Settings

6. Susan Marandi and Shabnam Mokhtarnia. Reading Strategies in Electronic Environment: An Emerging Concern

7. Hamid Zahedi and Mahsa khajooei Mirzadeh. Collocational Cloze: The Effect of Deletion Procedure and Gender

8. Esmaeel Ali Salimi, Mansoor Tavakoli and Saeed Ketabi.
The Effect of Noticing on the Judgment of Lexical Collocations: The Case of Language Proficiency and Complexity of Patterns