Volume 6-3. September 2010.

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Foreword

Welcome to the third edition of the year 2010. The Iranian EFL Journal has had strong growth over the last few years with a monthly readership now exceeding 1,800 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 third issue of volume 6 we present 6 articles for your reading. In the first article, the authors Mansoor Fahim, Parviz Maftoon, and Hossein Hashemnezhad have investigated the effects of scaffolding perspectives on Iranian EFL sophomores’ writing, and estimated the kinds and amounts of two scaffolding assessment techniques in Iranian EFL context.

In the second article, Azar Hoseini Fatemi and Hesamoddin Shahriari Ahmadi have addressed the pedagogical issues on the integration of accent training into the EFL classroom. In the third article, Nasser Rashidi and Mansoureh Sajjadi have investigated the effect of time intervals on vocabulary retrieval of Iranian female EFL learners who used the keyword method to encode the information entering the long term memory. Mohammad Reza Hashemi and Elham Yazdanmehr have examined EFL writing tasks between two groups of the most popular ESOL exam preparation courses in Iran: IELTS and TOEFL versus FCE and CAE.

In the next article, Masoumeh Akhondi, Faramarz Aziz Malayeri, and Arshad Abd. Samad have compared the interviewees’ performances in two experimental groups receiving different lengths of the same prompt and the third group who started an impromptu interaction with the interviewers.

In the last article, Amin Marzban and Mohammad Ali Ayatollahi have explored whether the nonstandard complex sentences can constrain sentence processing.

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

Volume 6-3. September 2010.
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Table of Contents

1. Foreword: Dr. Paul Robertson and Dr. Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh   
 
2. Mansoor Fahim, Parviz Maftoon and Hossein Hashemnezhad. Types and Amounts of Original vs. Modified Descriptions of Scaffolding in EFL Writing Ability

3. Azar Hoseini Fatemi  and Hesam Shahriari. To Teach or Not to Teach: On the Didactic Aspect of Accent Training in the EFL Classroom

4. Nasser Rashidi and Mansoureh Sajjadi. The Effect of Time Intervals on the Keyword Mnemonic Technique Used in Teaching Vocabulary to Iranian Female EFL Learners

5. Mohammad Reza Hashemi and Elham Yazdanmehr. A Process-oriented Evaluation of EFL Writing Tasks in FCE/CAE Preparation Courses versus IELTS/TOEFL Courses of Iran

6. Masoumeh Akhondi, Faramarz Aziz Malayeri and Arshad Abd. Samad. Assessing Speaking: Manipulating the Facet of the Length of Prompt in an Oral Proficiency Interview Setting

7. Amin Marzban and Mohammad Ali Ayatollahi. Accurate Recall Concerns in Language Classrooms: The Role of Clause Order in Memory Constraints