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  Foreword: Profs. Askarzadeh and Robertson.

   Welcome to  second edition of the Iranian EFL Journal. This journal is the sister journal to the long established Asian EFL Journal and Linguistics Journal. 2008 was a wonderful year for the Asian EFL Journal group, with the rapid growth of the Iranian EFL Journal, and with numerous SLA & ESP conferences planned for 2009 in China, Korea, India and the Philippines.
    In this second edition of the  Iranian EFL Journal we publish 7 articles. We thank the authors for their dedicated work and also to our Editorial team who helped bring this edition together.
    The first article by  Purya Baghaei who  is an assistant professor in the English Department of Islamic Azad University, Mashad.  In this study three analyses are applied to a C-Test to demonstrate its construct validity. The results show that the C-Test deviated from unidimensionality principal. It is therefore concluded that every C-Test battery requires rigorous empirical research for construct validity before it is used for practical testing purposes. The second article by Mohammad Mehdi Soleimani   reports the results of an investigation into Iranian EFL learners’ perceived use of language learning strategies (LLSs) and the impact of strategies instruction on the learners’ performance on reading comprehension tasks.  In the third article by Behzad Ghonsooli, Reza Pishghadam and  Fatemeh Mohaghegh Mahjoobi, the authors attempt to investigate the effect of collocational instruction, on Iranian EFL learners' English writings through quantitative as well as qualitative methods in two phases: product phase and process phase.
    The fourth article by Mohammad Reza Ghorbani examined the impact of the University Entrance Examination (UEE) on pre-university English teachers’ (PETs) teaching and curricular planning in six dimensions. The next study by Abdolmehdi Riazi & Mohammad Ali Mansoorian. investigated the preferred learning style(s) of Iranian EFL students who were studying English at EFL institutes in different cities in Iran. The implication of the study is that students should be introduced to different learning styles so that this familiarity can ease their way of learning a foreign language.
    The sixth article by A. Majid Hayati & Ehsan Ghassemi aimed at investigating the relationship between anxiety and reading comprehension, on the one hand, and the role of gender in the amount of anxiety experienced when reading an English text, on the other. Finally S.A. Razmjoo & M. Shaban investigate the relationship between Introversion/Extroversion and English grammaticality judgment among the Iranian EFL learners currently studying in domestic colleges.
    We look forward to your continued support through 2009 and onwards. The readership of this journal has grown considerably  since its inception this year. Within a few years we expect to grow four editions per year, with an ultimate goal of holding an Iranian EFL Journal International Conference.

Table of Contents:

Foreword: Drs. Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh & Paul Robertson

1. Purya Baghaei.  An Attempt to Fit the Rasch Model to a C-Test 

2. Mohammad Mehdi Soleimani.   Strategy teaching and its impact on reading comprehension in an EFL setting

3. Behzad Ghonsooli, Reza Pishghadam & Fatemeh Mohaghegh Mahjoobi. The Impact of Collocational Instruction on the Writing Skill of Iranian  EFL Learners: A Case of Product and Process Study

4. Mohammad Reza Ghorbani.  The Washback Effect of the University  Entrance Examination on Iranian English Teachers’ Curricular Planning and Instruction

5. Abdolmehdi Riazi & Mohammad Ali Mansoorian. Shiraz University Learning Style Preferences Among Iranian Male and Female EFL Students

6. A. Majid Hayati & Ehsan Ghassemi. The effect of anxiety on readingcomprehension across genders: A case of Iranian EFL learners

7. S.A. Razmjoo & M. Shaban. On The Relationship Between
Introversion/Extroversion and Grammaticality Judgment among the Iranian EFL Learners