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- جایگاه : پژوهشی
- مجله: Journal of Teaching Language Skills
- نوع مقاله: Journal Article
- کلمات کلیدی: ethnicity (linguistic/cultural characteristics),integrative tests,recall test,cloze test
- چکیده:
- چکیده انگلیسی: Linguistic/cultural differences of learners’ native language with English as a foreign language, gender and English proficiency level are among those numerous variables which affect English learning and its quality in Iranian context. The present study was an attempt to illuminate the effects of these variables on performing integrative approach of general English tests (cloze test and recall task, in particular). Hence, participants who were 162 Persian/Arab English learners (students of Abadan Institute of Technology in Khozestan, a province in which Arabic and Persian ethnicities live together) of both genders and were at different levels of proficiency were categorized into two categories of 82 Persian and 80 Arab English learners, as the basic categories of the study. Then, subjects were exposed to the study’s instruments:clozed and recall tasks made out of culture-based texts. The obtained results of an independent samples t-tests implied that Persian English learners performed remarkably better than their Arab peers. This over-performance may be because of linguistic/cultural characteristics of Persian which is more analogous with English (structurally and phonologically speaking) compared with Arabic. With the aid of a three-way ANOVA, gender and language proficiency level were also found to be effective variables for successful performance of integrative tests. In better words, as students' proficiency level decreases, cultural parameters play more significant roles in their recall task performances. It was also found that, subjects’ performances on cloze and recall tasks as two manifestations of integrative tests were highly correlated.
- انتشار مقاله: 09-07-1391
- نویسندگان: Azar Hosseini Fatemi,Mohammad Saber Khaghaninezhad
- مشاهده
- جایگاه : پژوهشی
- مجله: Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies
- نوع مقاله: Journal Article
- کلمات کلیدی: Collectivist Cultures,Cognitive and Affective Factors,Individualist Cultures,Moral Competence
- چکیده:
- چکیده انگلیسی: In a broad dichotomy, cultures are divided into collectivists and individualists. This difference between cultures is manifested in educational settings and the way students and teachers approach educational tasks and activities (Hofstede, 1986). This study investigated the way the dominant culture can affect the cognitive and affective load of classrooms and eventually account for the development of students’ moral judgment. To this end, 400 Iranian university students majoring in English language and literature were asked to complete FAMC test (Javadimehr et al., 2015a). This test measures the role of four factors of “focus, sharing, challenge and support” in the development of moral competency. The results revealed that there was a growth in the pattern of affective and cognitive factors from the first to the last year of studying in this major. The results also indicated that “challenge” was the least attended cognitive factor but “support” was always the most prevalent factor in all academic years. The findings are then discussed by taking into account the findings of other related studies conducted in individualist and collectivist societies.
- انتشار مقاله: 17-02-1396
- نویسندگان: Somayeh Javadimehr,Azar Hosseini Fatemi,Behzad Ghonsooly,Reza Pishghadam
- مشاهده
- جایگاه : پژوهشی
- مجله: Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies
- نوع مقاله: Journal Article
- کلمات کلیدی: academic writing,creative writing,visual advertisement,writing attitudes
- چکیده:
- چکیده انگلیسی: Almost little is known about creative writing. In this research, creative writing has been introduced as an alternative to academic writing. The aims were to introduce creative writing as an alternative to academic writing to boost the participants’ attitude towards writing in general. The participants were 32 senior university students studying English Translation at Islamic Azad University, Tehran. The study includes two phases: quantitative and qualitative. For the quantitative phase, the participants were given a questionnaire so that the researchers could measure their attitudes about writing. Then, a creative writing pretest was administered, followed by a posttest to see to what extent the treatment could help the participants improve their writing skill. For the qualitative phase, a videotaped oral interview with the participants was closely examined to find out about the participants’ attitudes towards writing. The means of the pretest and posttest indicated a three-fold increase in the scores after the treatment was over. The oral interview, furthermore, showed that most participants had a negative attitude towards creative writing. It was finally concluded that creative writing might be considered as a useful asset in academic contexts, expected to alleviate the negative attitude of learners towards writing to feel more confident.
- انتشار مقاله: 17-09-1394
- نویسندگان: Salim Yassami,Mohammad Ghazanfari,Reza Pishghadam,Azar Hosseini Fatemi
- مشاهده
- جایگاه : پژوهشی
- مجله: Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies
- نوع مقاله: Journal Article
- کلمات کلیدی: Measurement error,TEFL Research,Narrative Positivism,Optimal Matching Analysis,Event History Modeling,Cox Proportional Regression Analysis,Algorithmic Knowledge
- چکیده:
- چکیده انگلیسی: The aim of this study is to investigate Iranian TEFL graduates’ conception of measurement error in research. Adopting a sequential explanatory multi-method strategy (Borg, 2009), the researchers analyzed causal and temporal relations in the research narratives elicited from 30 TEFL graduates. Gee’s (1986) framework for identifying narrative discourse units (lines, stanzas, and episodes) was adopted to investigate participants’ conceptions of logical orders in measure development algorithms and their knowledge of error sources. In addition, taking a narrative positivistic approach, the narratives were rated based on Optimal Matching Analysis (OMA). Finally in ‘continuous event history modeling’ phase of the study, Cox Proportional Regression Analysis showed how temporal markers in research narratives can be used to predict one’s knowledge of measure development in research design. The results suggest that researchers’ error-awareness and algorithmic knowledge correlate significantly with each other and constitute knowledge of measure development in general. The contribution of dimensionality and validity testing to this knowledge was also found to be statistically significant.
- انتشار مقاله: 06-10-1391
- نویسندگان: Azar Hosseini Fatemi,Saeedeh Shamsaee,Mohammad Ali Shams
- مشاهده
- جایگاه : پژوهشی
- مجله: Journal of English Language Pedagogy and Practice
- نوع مقاله: Journal Article
- کلمات کلیدی: Life-responsive language teaching belief,Life syllabus,Teacher success
- چکیده: طراحی برنامه درسی بخشی جدایی ناپذیر از آموزش زبان انگلیسی است. تعدادی برنامه های درسی توسط دانشمندان مختلف از زمان ظهور آموزش زبان انگلیسی ارائه شده است، که آخرین آن توسطپیشقدم (2011) به نام "برنامه درسی زندگی محور" ارائه شده است که در آن مسائل مربوط به زندگی بجای زبان در کلاس های آموزش زبان انگلیسی مورد اولویت قرار می گیرد. با توجه به ظهور اخیر این برنامه درسی و کاستی پژوهش در مورد اثربخشی آن، این مطالعه با هدف روشن کردن موضوع مورد نظرانجام شد. هدف اصلی این مطالعه بررسی ارتباط بین موفقیت مدرسان زبان انگلیسی و اعتقاد به آموزش زبان زندگی محور (LRLTB) در زمینه زبان انگلیسی به عنوان یک زبان خارجی،در ایران بود. برای این منظور، 200 نفر مدرس-100نفر از بخش مدارس خصوصی و نفر100 از بخش مدارس ملی و 1771 نفر از دانش آموزان آنها به عنوان شرکت کنندگان دراین مطالعه پژوهشی انتخاب شدند. در مرحله اول مطالعه به مدرسان "پرسشنامه باورهای آموزش زبان زندگی پاسخگو" وبه دانش آموزان آنها " پرسشنامه ویژگی های مدرسان موفق زبان انگلیسی به عنوان زبان خارجی" داده شد. نتایج مطالعه همبستگی نشان داد که همبستگی بالایی بین موفقیت مدرس و LRLTBو همچنین خرده مقیاس های دو متغیر وجود دارد. مقایسه مدرسان مرد و زن در مورد همبستگی بین متغیرها هیچ تفاوت معنی داری را نشان نمی دهد. اما مقایسه مدرسان مدارس غیر دولتی آموزش زبان انگلیسی و دولتی از نظر ارتباط بین متغیرها نشان داد که رابطه به شدت قویتری برای گروه دوم دارند.
- چکیده انگلیسی: The current study aimed at investigating the relationship between life-wise syllabus- as a new type of syllabus which emerged as the result of recent developments in applied ELT and corresponding to the "education for life"- and teacher success in an EFL context. Life-wise syllabus introduced by Pishghadam in 2011 directed English teachers’ attention to give priority to life issues rather than language in class. These new concepts encourage curriculum development based on life and all of its manifestations which is the core principle of humanistic education. Then teaching should not only comprise mathematics, chemistry, or literature, but also emotions, relationships, attitudes, thinking styles, feelings, and states of mind. Due to the recent emergence of this syllabus and the dearth of research over its effectiveness, this research study was carried out to shed more light on the issue. To this end, 200 teachers- 100 from private sector and 100 from public sector- and their 1771 students were chosen as the participants of the research study from Mashhad and Ghaen cities. In this study, the teachers were given "Life-Responsive Language Teaching beliefs Questionnaire" (hereafter LRLTB), and their students were given the "Characteristics of Successful EFL Teachers Questionnaire" (hereafter CSET). The results of the correlational study indicated that the main variables and also their subscales were highly correlated. The comparison between male and female teachers regarding correlation between variables did not show any significant difference. But the comparison between private and public school teachers in terms of the relationship between the variables displayed that they were more strongly correlated for the latter.
- انتشار مقاله: 28-01-1395
- نویسندگان: Hamid Khosravany Fard,Reza Pishghadam,Azar Hosseini Fatemi
- مشاهده
- جایگاه : پژوهشی
- مجله: Applied Research on English Language
- نوع مقاله: Journal Article
- کلمات کلیدی: Task-Based Instruction,Speaking Skill,Emotional Intelligence,Communicative Approaches
- چکیده:
- چکیده انگلیسی: This study tried to investigate the impact of task-based instruction (TBI) on the enhancement of Iranian EFL learners’ speaking skill. The study also tried to scrutinize the impact of TBI on learners’ emotional intelligence. To meet these ends, 60 students were randomly divided into two groups, the experimental group and the control group. At the very first session of the term, two speaking examinations were conducted for both experimental and control group. After the speaking examinations, the participants were asked to answer Bar-On’s emotional intelligence questionnaire. The experimental group was instructed through task-based approach and the control group received instruction through present-practice-produce (PPP) approach. The scores obtained by two raters from the interview post-tests were analyzed through non-parametric tests, and the data obtained from EQ questionnaires were analyzed through t-tests. Results of the statistical analysis revealed that the experimental group performed significantly better on the speaking post-test than the control group. Furthermore, the findings also indicated that the learners in the experimental group became more emotionally intelligent than those in the control group.
- انتشار مقاله: 14-11-1396
- نویسندگان: Akram Ashraf Ganjouee,Behzad Ghonsooly,Azar Hosseini Fatemi
- مشاهده