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This study aimed at examining the effect of movies on learning English idiomatic and everyday expressions among Iranian EFL learners. The sample population of this study was English major students of Islamic Azad University, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch. Their first language was Persian and their age ranged between 25 and 45. The participants were 30 male and female students who were chosen based on their scores in a placement test to ensure that they were in the same level of English language proficiency. An experimental design was used in which pre-test–post-test was utilised. After the data were analysed statistically through a paired-samples t-test, the results showed that movies had significant effects on learning English idiomatic and everyday expressions among Iranian EFL learners and improves their English learning. Thus, language teachers and syllabus designers can include movies as an effective and interesting tool in teaching vocabulary in general and idiomatic and everyday expressions

This study aimed at investigating the effect of collocations as language chunks on Iranian female intermediate EFL learners’ writing skill. Moreover, the researchers intended to find out the attitude of learners towards writing skill after collocations were taught. To this end, 30 female Iranian EFL learners who were studying English in a language institute in Isfahan, aged between 18 and 26 years old formed the sample. The instruments used for data collection included three tests (Oxford Placement Test, writing pretest and posttest) and an attitude questionnaire developed by Peter Elbow and Pat Belanoff. The results obtained from the statistical analyses revealed that there was a significant effect of using collocations on the writing skill of Iranian female intermediate EFL learners. Furthermore, based on the findings, it can be claimed that the learners’ attitude boosted in the course of this experiment, indicating that using collocations had a significantly positive impact on the attitudes of Iranian EFL learners towards writing skill.  Keywords: attitude, collocations, language chunks, writing skill