The aim of the present study was to investigate errors in the compositions of 30 Iranian students, both male and female and all at the intermediate level, who were selected from two language institutes, one in Rasht and the other in Bandar Anzali. The selected students were studying American English File 3, as their course book, and the researchers were their instructors. They were given a model from their course book to write a letter in reply to another letter. Thirty samples were collected, and analysed qualitatively and quantitatively following Keshavarz's (2013) linguistic classification of errors. Findings showed that students committed different errors with different degrees of occurrence. Morphosyntactic errors were the most frequently occurring, followed by orthographic, lexicosemantic, and phonological errors respectively.
The present study aimed at investigating the relationship between Short Term Memory and Listening Comprehension ability of the IELTS test takers at three levels of language proficiency. According to scholars like Revlin (2013) and Cowan (2008)
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