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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Fazeli, Fatemeh; Shokrpour, Nasrin – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2012
Complement constructions vary significantly in English and Persian. There are more complementation structures in English than in Persian and a complement structure in Persian might have more than one equivalent in English. Producing complement structures (CSs) in English is very difficult for native speakers of Persian, especially in an EFL…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Indo European Languages
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Shokrpour, Nasrin; Fotovatian, Sepide – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2006
To enhance reading comprehension, several strategies have been identified in previous research conducted (Naiman et al. 1978; O'Malley & Chamot 1990; O'Malley, Chamot, Manzanares, Russo and Kypper 1985; Politzer and McGroarty 1985; Prokop 1989; Oxford 1990; Salataci and Akyel 2002; Tercanlioglu 2004). However, using different types of Reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Inferences, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Shokrpour, Nasrin – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2003
Describes a new model for teaching academic English-as-a-Second-Language/Foreign-Language reading. The model emphasizes considering texts, function, meaningfulness, and rhetoric, rather than sentence, form, grammaticality, and logic, as expressed by systemics. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education