The use of mother tongue in foreign language classes has been a controversial issue in the history of language teaching. The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of using L1 in teaching vocabulary to EFL students. To do so, 72 participants (36 boys and 36 girls) were divided into 6 classes in three levels based on their language proficiency, namely beginner, elementary and preintermediate. The students in each level were randomly assigned to control and experimental groups. In order to measure the effect of using L1 on their vocabulary learning, the control and experimental groups were taught for 20 sessions through the use of different methods. In the experimental groups, after teaching the new words through images and pictures, students’ L1 was used to tell the students the Persian meaning(s) of the words, while in the control group, the Persian meanings were not told to the students and only the target language and visuals were used for teaching the new words. The.....

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There have been many controversies in the history of language education regarding the effectiveness of using students mother tongue in the classroom. Some researchers believe that it can cause interference and procrastinate the process of language learning while others believe that it can have educational benefits. The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of using translation in teaching grammar to English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students. 30 EFL students were selected and randomly assigned to two groups, namely control and experimental. To examine the effectiveness of using translation in teaching grammar, the two groups were taught for 18 sessions using two different methods. In the experimental group, students L1 was judiciously used while teaching the grammatical rules, while in the control group, English language was used as the only language of instruction. After 18 sessions of instruction, the performance of the two groups in the pre-test and posttest were .....

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