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تاریخ برگزاری : 20 آذر 1398
Taking the crucial role of corrective feedback in L2 acquisition, the present research study aimed to investigate the effects of prompts and recasts on the acquisition of initial consonant clusters by Iranian EFL learners. Furthermore, attempts were made to find if recasts and prompts equally affect the acquisition of initial consonant clusters by Iranian EFL learners. Data wer و...
In this research we investigated the effects of teaching academic words with and without their collocates on the writing quality of Iranian medical students. To this aim, we selected, with the help of a subject matter expert, 300 academic words from the Academic Vocabulary List which bore high relevance to Medicine. A cohort of 32 medical students were then divided randomly int و...
Culture is defined as the norms and rules that govern the behavior of a group of individuals. This behavior is unique to a group of people and therefore different groups of individuals enjoy different cultures. Culture is reflected in the language spoken by a society of community. When one group of individuals strives to learn a foreign language they are also exposed to the for و...
Mobile technology is unique in terms of the unprecedented pace with which it has spread over the last years. Taking a broad sociocultural stance, Pachler, Cook, & Bachmair ( 2010) truly assert that mobile phones can be seen as cultural tools which can transform socio-cultural practices and structures existing in all domains of users’ lives. Such transformation can empower the u و...
Listening comprehension occurs when listeners can reasonably interpret the speaker s intention; therefore, reducing foreign language listening anxiety (FLLA) among EFL learners plays a significant role in facilitating their comprehension. The present study was designed to determine the effect of metacognitive instruction (MI) and metacognitive instruction through dialogic inter و...
There have always been injustice and discrimination against ethnic minorities. It is justified that some people are inherently superior to others. Literary works like poetry could be an efficient means in oppressing minorities. It also could be a good way to counter this discrimination. While scholars affirm the importance of literature as imagination, it is believed that its r و...
One of the most important languages in the world is English, which has been the focus of international attention for many years. We Iranians, too, who have rich Iranian-Islamic civilization and culture, should be able to use English more than ever before as a global tool to express our views internationally. Add to our experiences and knowledge by taking advantage of English و...
The present research explores the aftermath of 9/11 on the paradigm shift taking place between the Orient and the Occident. The collapse of the Twin Towers has had many effects on several arenas and this field is not exempted. Bearing in mind the teachings of Edward Said on Orientalism, this paper attempts to explicate the matter in light of Translocational Postitionality (TPF) و...
English for Academic Purposes (EAP) is considered currently as a developing branch of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instruction in Iran. The presented study tries to evaluate an EAP textbook specified for economics students entitled, ‘English for the students of Economics’, which is published in the Center for Studying and Compiling University Books in Humanities (SAMT). و...
In the process of making and remaking any culture, mankind has encountered various challenges leading to the regeneration or degeneration of civilizations. Hence, coming to the realization that individuals can have active participation in creating and recreating their identities in the process of the cultural formation is regarded as the most influential human experience. Post- و...
This article dealt with the fourth goal of the seventeenth goals related to the education of young children in particular preschoolers. However, this goal aims at educating all people in different age ranges regardless of their status, poor or rich, male or female. Related to education and edification, the research intended to discover how it is possible young children acquire و...
In second language acquisition, form-focused instruction (FFI) in which forms are attended to within meaning-based activities are considered effective for language learning; however, when is a better time to direct learners attention to form in FFI has been widely ignored. To fill this gap, this study investigated the contributions of two FFI types, namely, isolated and integra و...
اکرم امیرخانی عزیزی1⸲ دکتر عزیزه چالاک2⸲ دکتر مرتضی طبیبی جبلی3 1 دانشجوی دکتری آموزش زبان انگلیسی⸲ دانشگاه آزاد اصفهان amirkhani.a91@yahoo.com 2 استاد یار دانشکده زبان انگلیسی⸲ دانشگاه آزاد اصفهان (خوراسگان) azichalak@gmail.com 3 استاد یار دانشکده ی حقوق⸲ دانشگاه اصفهان Tabibi890@gmail.com چکیده از آنجایی که درک دقیق متون حقوقی انگلیسی برای دانشجویان حقوق بسی و...
Present study aims to explore J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000), initially children literature aimed to please British audience, in terms of Julia Kristeva’s intertextuality. This paper examines the main characters in the contemporary context of the fourth instalment of the Harry Potter heptalogy regarding their similarity to their original accounts. It و...
As a qualitative inquiry, this paper seeks to examine the perspectives of Iranian EFL policymakers, teachers, and learners about the conception of English language proficiency (ELP). To this end, the researcher interviewed some respondents from the prospective groups under a naturalistic setting, using pseudonyms in reporting the results, and having their informed consents. Aft و...
The present study is an attempt to examine the relationship between contemporary or critical (as we argue) translation studies (CTS) and critical discourse analysis (CDA). A number of critical, modern and salient translation theories, to this end, as representative and purposive samples, are compared to CDA-oriented theories. Elaborating on the relationship between translation و...
Task repetition is a research domain that has captured increased attention in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) over the last two decades. A growing number of task repetition studies have investigated the effects of repeating tasks on learners’ oral production in general. However, there appear to be only few studies in the literature which have sufficiently acknowl و...
Assessment is an umbrella term incorporating language teachers’ goals, proficiencies, teaching and testing preferences. Some studies have been conducted on different aspects of assessment. One of these aspects is the assessment needs of teachers. Having gained the importance of assessment needs, the present study focuses on the present assessment needs of Iranian EFL teacher و...
The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of data–driven learning (DDL) on the vocabulary size of Iranian intermediate EFL learners. The participants of this study were 25 Iranian male and female intermediate EFL learners who were studying English as a foreign language at Mehre Iran institute, Lahijan, Iran. The participants were recruited through applying a co و...
The role of listening is significant in L1 and L2 acquisition because the child learns to listen before all other skills (Rost, 2005). Due the mentioned fact, an array of studies have been conducted on the importance of listening skill. In this regard, some researches were conducted on the process of listening (Anderson, &Lynch, 1988), on the influential factors (Brindley, & Sl و...
Teachers and course books are two key elements of any education curriculum. They interact closely based on teacher beliefs, school setting, and instructional objectives. Moreover, course books can serve as dynamic sources of learning for both learners and teachers. The present study is the outcome of a three-year attempt to investigate the dynamic role and the evolutionary effe و...
Abstract Using narrative theory as its theoretical framework, this study investigates how the three Persian Iranian Websites are presented to their readers in their Persian and English versions. The three websites of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bank Melli Iran and the Municipality of Isfahan were selected for the purpose of the study. Since Baker’s narrative theory (200 و...
Being in contribution with hard of hearing students takes more teachers’ time in order to cope with their educational challenges rather than normal students. The gap in the literature and lack of knowledge regarding this issue for hard of hearing individual makes situation complicated for developing appropriate programs for their second language learning. The purpose of this st و...
Treading the historical trajectory of tragedy from ancient Greek to contemporary drama, what strikes us as the common thread is the way female characters have been associated with transgression, liminality, spectrality, sacrifice, death, and a death-oriented or deadly desire. The works of the Irish dramatist Marina Carr, replete with transgressive female characters who straddle و...
Foreign cinematic products have gained unparalleled popularity as a source of entertainment everywhere, even among the people of non-western countries, including Iran. Watching foreign cinematic programs has experienced dramatic changes, in recent years, with the emergence of participatory practices, such as amateur subtitling because it offers an unprecedented opportunity for و...
The overall framework of student achievement includes personal and environmental factors such as: a. Academic engagement (Walker & Pearce, 2014) which includes emotional, cognitive, and behavioral factors (Appleton, Christenson, Kim, & Reschly, 2006); b. Individual and environmental contexts which can affect individual’s knowledge and academic engagement including intelligence و...
In spite of the fact that the teacher-assessment is still used in the educational system of Iran, many students have negative attitudes towards the teacher-assessment. Therefore, this study is conducted to examine the correlation between self-, peer-, and teacher-assessments in EFL learnersʼ grammar level. In doing so, 92 Iranian female junior students were selected randomly fr و...
Self-efficacy is concerned with people’s beliefs in their capabilities to produce given attainments (Bandura, 2006). As students interpret information from four sources; mastery experience, vicarious experience, social persuasion and physiological wellbeing, they develop their self-efficacy (Bandura, 1997). The purpose of the current study was to compare the sources of self-eff و...
Previous studies demonstrate a controversy over lexical selection in bilinguals with two broad language-specific and language-universal approaches to address the issue. To contribute to the bulk of related enquiries, this study investigated if having two lexical items causes any competition and whether this competition causes any delay in lexical selection time. To that aim, tw و...
Research on Dos Passos’s U.S.A. trilogy has mostly been focused on its technicalities or the notion of the American Dream and the cultural issues from a non-Veblenian point of view. Though Veblen s The Theory of the Leisure Class has been used in researches on U.S.A., and considering Veblen s influence on Dos Passos, still no study of the concept of efficiency has been conducte و...
Encountering second language issues (speaking skills) for many learners as an unattainable desire can be manipulated by electing beneficial techniques and ameliorate them to the useful methods for other learners in different classrooms. The child learns various skills through the educational games which they are one of the main and specialized topics in the educational field th و...
The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the impacts of metacognitive strategies on brain dominance of Iranian intermediate EFL learners’ reading comprehension. Research participants were 50 intermediate EFL learners. They were homogenized by validated OPD. They were divided into 2 groups, that is, experimental and control. The chosen methodology for this experi و...
The present study sought to investigate EFL teachers’ perceptions and practices regarding the use of L1 in L2 classrooms. The participants were eighteen Iranian EFL teachers, teaching adults’ EFL classes at different proficiency levels. Their mother tongue as well as that of their students was Persian. Classroom observations and semi-structured interviews were the instruments e و...
Entwicklungsroman is usually defined as the subgenre of the ‘coming of age’ novels which investigates a protagonist’s process of identity formation and personal growth; according to Tobias Boes (2006), it can be distinguished from other similar forms by its autobiographical features. Moby-Dick (Melville, 2002) is one of the most prominent works in classical American literature و...
Despite the fact that virtual learning seems to have considerable potential for enhancing language learners’ abilities in various language skills and components, it has received less attention regarding improving pragmatic competence in Iranian classroom. The present study was an attempt to investigate the impact of virtual and real classroom instruction of speech acts on the p و...
The content for ESP courses has been mostly determined on the basis of the intuitive judgments and personal preferences of syllabus designers and teachers, rather than a standard needs analysis. The present study was an attempt at assessing the current English language abilities of undergraduate students majoring in medical sciences as well as identifying their target needs for و...
The current study aimed to investigate the Iranian EFL Learners Perceptions of Recast during Face to Face, Audio-based and Video-based Mobile Assisted Communication. To accomplish the above mentioned goal, sixty intermediate students who were studying English at two different Language institutes were selected. Of this number, twenty were female and forty were male students. The و...
There has been a plethora of research and discussion on test fairness during the last couple of decades. The scope of fairness analyses range from a mere comparison of mean performance across groups of participants to large scale (qualitative and qualitative) studies of both psychometric features of the test and the uses to which test scores have been put. Differential item fun و...
Listening is the rudimentary skill amongst the four in language learning.There has been a growth in utilizing metacognitive strategy instruction to expedite the processes of listening comprehension. Most previous studies reveal that the metacognitive strategy instruction is more rewarding for less-skilled L2 listeners than their counterparts. Further, there has been a consensus و...
Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, was published in 2003. The novel attracted a wide readership worldwide, and the Persian translation of the novel was enthusiastically read in Iran. The novel is the story of the friendship between two Afghan boys, Amir and Hassan, Amir being the master and Hassan a servant. The story, a life in retrospect, encompasses the events in Kabu و...
عناصر زمان و مکان از عناصر وابسته به فرهنگ هر جامعه میباشند و در هر نوع متنی و هر ژانری کاملاً حضور دارند. مترجم هنگام مواجهه با این عناصر وابسته به فرهنگ باید کمال دقت و توجه را داشته باشد، زیرا کوچکترین خدشهای در این مورد میتواند مخاطب مقصد را در فهم مطلب دچار سردرگمی کند. هنگام ترجمۀ عنصر زمان، باید دقت داشت که زمان متن مقصد با متن مبدأ همخوانی داشته باشد. در ترجمۀ عنصر و...
Taking a journey on self-recognition and a heroic quest to find true self is not confined to a special time or place. The Hand maid s Tale as a timeless myth that links us to all people everywhere discourses the quest of Offred, a segregated and dispossessed handmaid, in a male centered regime to regain her freedom and identity barehanded. Archetypes are manipulated as inner gu و...
The productive skills of speaking and writing are perceived challenging by Iranian high school EFL learners as they usually lack required level of syntactic knowledge to rely on. This paper reports an interactive and dynamic cycle of group error correction through which EFL learners iteratively transfer their implicitly learned syntactic knowledge from writing to speaking and f و...
In his dystopian novel, George Orwell coined a number of brand new terms to represent totalitarian and authoritarian fashions of politics, certain neologisms previously unknown to literature, society and culture. Since achieving the proper equivalents in translation of such language-specific expressions seems to be of a great significance, the present paper aims to make assessm و...
Wallace Stevens’ Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Bird, as a manifesto to his aesthetic principles and his concern for beauty, has been long praised. As a philosopher of aesthetics he vigorously explored the essence of poetry as the excellent mix of creative imagination and objective reality. His extreme technical and thematic complexity has fit to a many critical analyses. و...
The significant role of Hollywood, in particular, in disseminating information and creating images of the Iranian history, as a powerful social tool is evident. Although critical analysis of the movie discourse is a fashionable trend among the critical discourse analysts, there is a paucity of research on movie discourse in Iran. Besides, the increasing number of the anti-Irani و...
Deixis and cognition, in Stockwell’s words, are tightly interwoven. Deictic shift theory, as an approach to cognitive deixis, recently has provided a means for investigating the viewpoints in the literary texts. Generically speaking, drama has been tended to disregard. The present study aims to examine deictic shift theory in Sam Shepard’s Cowboy Mouth (1971) and to demonstrate و...
Despite emphasizing the potential of audiovisual materials for incidental vocabulary learning, scholarship on the affordances of these materials for vocabulary uptake is scant. This study investigated whether the insertion of an oral output task between 2 viewings of a TED talk positively affects vocabulary learning. To this end, 30 Iranian intermediate EFL students participate و...
Modern schemata theorists believe that meaning exists neither in oral nor in the written language itself, but in the reader s mind, and brain schemata could be triggered by using techniques such as graphic organizers. This study aimed at employing graphic organizers to enhance schematic activation. To this end, a total number of 173 Iranian upper-intermediate EFL learners recei و...
Teacher assessment has always been of serious concern to higher-level directors and educational policymakers alike. A widely popularised means of assessing a language teacher’s performance is classroom observation, but lack of an objective, standardised, and well-researched observation tool that takes into account the evaluations of all the stakeholders has embroiled classroom و...
Research on Classroom Assessment (CA) in general, and teachers’ grading practices in particular, has gained momentum in recent decades. Validity concerns have been raised around teacher-assigned grades and subsequently, the factors that influence teachers’ grading have been brought into the spotlight, fueling the concept of ‘hodgepodge grading’. The purpose of this study was to و...
This study was aimed at investigating the effect of collaborative assessment, on the EFL learners’ reading comprehension, and thinking abilities. In this mixed methods research design study, 62 intermediate EFL learners out of a population of 110 English language learners, were randomly selected and divided into two Groups of experimental and control with 31 participants in eac و...
Multimodality is a prominent concept in communication and language education research which considered human communication as an amalgamation of various modes. One’s perceived communicative competence can also be strongly related to his willingness to communicate (WTC) in EFL contexts. While research on WTC has been flourishing, the relationship between multimodal pedagogies an و...
The past decade has seen a significant amount of research on the role of task planning as a means for improving learners’ L2 speech. This study was an attempt to investigate the effects of strategic and unpressured within-task planning on Iranian EFL learners’ oral performance. The participants were 60 male and female intermediate EFL learners chosen from an English language in و...
EFL classroom management has frequently been addressed. However, it seems to be underresarched in EAP settings. Considering the significant role of the instructors in holding, moderating, and managing EAP courses, the current study aimed to investigate the possible relationship between the instructors’s interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligences and their classroom managamen و...
The present study aimed to investigate the effect of language use vs language learning strategies on Iranian EFL learners’ l 2 speaking ability. The main question this study tried to answer was whether applying language use, language learning strategies or both might have any effect on Iranian EFL learners l 2 speaking ability at intermediate level. To answer the questions, 60 و...
The purposes of this study were to explore language learners’ and instructors’ knowledge and use of tools, applications, and websites, their attitudes to using technology, and their perceptions of advantages and challenges of using technology in academic listening classes. The participants of this study were 184 undergraduate students of Engineering and four academic listening و...
As a challenging skill for EFL teachers and learners, various aspects of listening comprehension have been studied during the past years. In line with this, the present study aimed at investigating the effect of dynamic assessment, as an innovative type of assessment, on EFL learners’ performance on selective and productive listening tasks. To begin with, to check the proficien و...
As an author who writes only a single novel in his life span, Ralph Ellison (1913-1994) shot to fame for his literary masterpiece, Invisible Man(1952). It was the first time a black writer’s novel won the prestigious award of National Book Award. However, Invisible Man’s study of Afro-American themes of injustice, racism and identity does not present its great aesthetic values و...
Language translation is not a simple technical, but a socio-cultural, subjective and ideological process. Translation is evaluated in terms of its forms and functions inside the historically developed systems of the receiving culture and literature. This study aimed to evaluate the quality of the Persian translation of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS1) based o و...
Listening has an important role both in daily life and academic contexts as it is crucial for people to sustain effective communication. One of the techniques that might improve listening comprehension is shadowing technique. Therefore, this study explored whether shadowing training improves the listening comprehension skill of elementary and intermediate Iranian EFL learners. و...
Abstract Errors are unavoidable parts of the foreign language learning (L2) process; however, learners might commit different grammatical errors depending on the genre of the manuscript. The present study intends to identify Iranian EFL learners’ written grammatical errors in two genres namely, descriptive and narrative and then determines the likely existence of correlation b و...
The critical work on fiction after 9/11 mainly focuses on the trauma experienced by characters. “Traumatic event,” “traumatic attack” and “traumatic moment” are all phrases which emerged in the post-9/11 culture and literature describing September 11, 2001 attacks. Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003) best reflects the post-9/11 traumatic trait through representation of characters’ i و...
EFL learners require Willingness to Communicate (WTC) in order to be communicatively competent. WTC is, therefore, considered a necessary condition for language learning. Previous research on WTC has confirmed that various individual, social, situational, and contextual variables affect EFL learners’ tendency for communication. Given the paucity of research on the role of teach و...
This study was performed to research emotional intelligence of Iranian EFL teachers in Iranian public schools and investigates relationship between this variable and their classroom management. A modified validated version of the Teacher emotional intelligence Scale (Daniel Goleman, 1995) was used to collect data and assess teachers’ perceived Emotional intelligence. The partic و...
Recently, flipped teaching has become a new trend in the realm of teaching, and it is becoming widespread throughout the educational system. The purpose of the current study was to find out if there was any significant difference between the participants’ oral CAF in traditional and flipped classrooms. In order to have a homogenous sample, 40 lower-intermediate participants wer و...
The researchers in the current study mainly strived to explore the areas of school university partnerships in Iranian EFL context. In so doing, a total of 150 English language professors and school teachers from a number of schools and universities across Urmia and Sardasht were selected as participants of the study. The study sample was quite varied in terms of teaching experi و...
This study was carried out to examine the effects, if any, of Mobile-Assisted Spelling Instruction on the learning of English spelling among Iranian EFL learners. To this aim, 40 Iranian university students were recruited as the participants of the study and were randomly assigned into two groups of experimental and control. As for the experimental group, the participants embar و...
The purpose of this study was threefold: to explore graduate students’ attitudes, interaction patterns, perceptions of teaching quality, and satisfaction with blended learning technology; (b) to determine the relationship between learner’s satisfaction with attitude, interaction, and the quality of teaching; and (c) to investigate the extent to which attitude, interaction, and و...
While the construct of identity is now well integrated into a wider body of the second language written discourse, studies focusing on the enactment of the writer identity in the genre of article bios have been relatively limited in number. To fill this gap, the present study sought to explore how Iranian senior and junior researchers made use of textual features to project the و...
The present study investigated the effect of task repetition on resilience of extroverted versus introverted Iranian EFL learners. For this purpose, 150 female intermediate EFL participants were selected through administration of the standardized Preliminary English Test (PET). Then they were assigned into two groups of sixty, namely control group and experimental group. Then, و...
This article employs Ibtissam Bouachrine’s feminist perspective to explore Elif Shafak’s stand on the notion of amnesia and identity in Three Daughters of Eve (2016). It focuses on Shafak’s sensitivity toward the concept of multiculturalism and using it as an “Ottoman Utopian” concept to tackle the modernization with its nationalist sensitivities that, she believes, is drying m و...
Writing is a complex skill and for many language learners and teachers, making a progress in writing skill cannot be satisfactorily fulfilled in a short period of time. Owing to the fact that writing has been presented as a low priority skill in the field of ESL/EFL teacher education and also teachers who play an effective role in developing learners’ writing find it a very int و...
Retrospective and Introspective Think-Aloud Protocols in Translation Quality Assessment: A Qualitative Research Samaneh Heidari Department of English, Islamic Azad University, Karaj Branch Email: Samane.heydari71@gmail.com Natasha Pourdana Department of English, Islamic Azad University, Karaj Branch Email: Natasha.pourdana@kaiu.ac.ir Abstract Recently, one of the maj و...
In today’s digital era, it is necessary to prepare students for the market by incorporating electronic language resources into classes. The aim of the present study was to use electronic resources and foster collaboration in the translation classrooms to bridge the gap between theory and practice. To this end, in a twenty-session translation course that was offered in a private و...
The ability of the brain to learn is one of the fundamental pillars supporting the link between education and brain-based language learning (hereafter BBL). BBL derived from Cognitive neuroscience is developing and increasing our understanding of early brain development, brain state, genetic state, and hormonal state and how these brain changes might relate to learning processe و...
This study aimed at investigating the effect of EFL teachers’ online grammar tests on EFL students’ grammatical competence. Having administered an Oxford Quick Placement Test (OQPT), 30 out of a pile of 68 ninth grade Iranian high school EFL students with intermediate level of English proficiency were selected and randomly assigned into two equal groups of control and experi و...
Testing translation performance of the EFL students has not been paid due attention compared with the bulk of the literature on testing other language skills namely reading, writing, speaking and listening. This has led some translation teachers to face serious problems in measuring their students’ translation performance. In most cases, they have to opt for the existing develo و...
Following the critical discourse analysis framework, the present study attempts to investigate the perspectives of twenty translators of Hafiz and the aspects of his poetry discussed by them, according to three macro-level elements (titles, illustrations and prefaces). It also examines the possible significant similarities/differences in the translator’s selections of the ghaza و...
The ability to write in a foreign language is an important skill, especially in academic contexts. Teachers, learners, and researchers try to find factors affecting L2 writing achievement. There are many variables which affect learners’ L2 writing ability. The goal of this study is to examine relationship among some of these factors- i.e. L2 anxiety, self-efficacy, tolerance of و...
Isolated Focus on Form Instruction (FFI), introduced by Spada and Lightbown (2008), is divided into two forms: early and delayed FFI. The former offers explicit instruction before communicative practice tasks, while the latter provides it after the tasks. This study aimed to investigate whether sequential isolated (FFI) has variable effects on learning grammatical structures wi و...
Listening has gained notable significance in any English teaching program, including English for academic purposes, in a way that no one would deny the fact that skillful dealing with listening comprehension will lead to academic success (Jeon, 2007). The present study was an attempt to investigate the effect of presenting critical thinking skills on EAP learners listening comp و...
English language as an important means of international communication has received an undeniable role in international business communications around the world. In this respect, in an attempt to find the distinguishing features of different texts many studies have been carried out with a focus on the analysis of different written genres in EBP (English for Business Purposes). S و...
This study aimed at examining the presentation of the cultural elements in internationally-distributed ELT textbooks, namely, Top Notch series and locally- developed ELT textbooks, namely, Prospect series. To this end, Top Notch and Prospect series were quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed through content analysis in order to investigate the cultural elements included in t و...
Nowadays, technology is a facilitator for different aspects of human life, particularly for education systems. Education is an important part of our life so if we want to make it easier and more efficacious, the use of technology is inevitable. Technology will accelerate learners’ learning and it also makes teaching process more comfortable specially in TEFL because new methods و...
Considering the current status of English as a lingua franca that transcends the boundaries of a particular culture and society, policymakers’ attempt is to foster critical and cultural awareness in language learning curricula. Textbooks, as the primary classroom materials, play an essential role in how this goal is realized. In the current study, Strategic Reading, a series co و...
While there is a burgeoning of research in self, peer and teacher assessment, there is a paucity of research in longitudinal terms of this kind of assessment. Furthermore, oral assessment in English as a foreign language context is relatively underexplored. Therefore, the current study was designed to investigate the reliability and validity in 30 oral presentations that spanne و...
The importance of pragmatic knowledge in the language ability construct is not disputed, yet its role in interlanguage development has only recently begun to be researched empirically, particularly within the aspect of comprehension (Beltrán-Palanques, 2016). The present mixed-methods study investigated whether pragmatic knowledge or vocabulary knowledge can better predict infe و...
Drawing on Narrative Theory, the present article is an attempt to investigate whether translator’s patriotism impacts on the way they render subtitles for a movie that tells an antagonistic narrative of their homeland. Given their anti-Iranian representation of two narratives (i.e., a historical and a contemporary), two feature films, namely, 300 and Argo, were selected. The Fa و...
Professional identity development is a challenge for novice TESOL teachers; commitment is another. Both occur in the workplace, yet the workplace itself is seldom treated as more than a site for research, even when it is a site of struggle. This case study looks at the multiple identities, situated activity system, and multiple components of organizational commitment to explain و...
The long-standing view that the practice of translation consists of two languages, the language translated from and the language translated into, introduced by Jakobson (1959) as interlingual translation. Corrius and Zabalbeascoa (2011) introduce the theory of third language to translation. In their points of view, L3 is less frequent language than the main language(s) and its و...
Considering the importance of test anxiety and its negative effect on students’ performance, the current qualitative study was conducted to explore strategies Iranian EFL teachers use to reduce students’ test anxiety. As to the objective, a survey with 10 open-ended questions was administered among 38 Iranian EFL teachers. Thematic analysis was used to identify common themes an و...
The current genre analysis study sought to investigate the rhetorical structure of ‘Highlights’ as a rather recently emerged genre. The corpus (including 240 highlight sections) complied from two leading journals, ‘English for Specific Purposes’ and ‘English for Academic Purposes’ during a five-year period (2014-2018), was analyzed through a grounded theory approach. The qualit و...
Non-native English speaking (NNES) authors are increasingly being pressured to refer to copy editors to have their manuscripts linguistically improved to get published in accredited international journals. Despite the important responsibility that copy editors shoulder in deciding the ultimate fate of academic papers, nearly no studies have systematically explored the effects e و...
Meta-discourse markers constitute a significant part of a reader friendly text. This study focused on the types and frequency of meta-discourse markers in applied linguistics book reviews (BR) published in ISI and non-ISI journals. To this end, meta-discourse markers were analyzed in 86 BRs selected from six journals (three ISI and three non-ISI journals) based on the model dev و...
The present study offers a comparative analysis of J.R.R. Tolkiens novel, The Hobbit (1937) and Peter Jackson s movie adaptation, in terms of fantastic elements and how they are transferred from a verbal to a visual experience. In comparative literature, some points are to be taken into consideration in both verbal and visual fields, for although they overlap in some points, it و...
Recent attention to audiovisual translation has given rise to the accumulation of a rich literature in this area. As one of the audiovisual modalities, voice-over, however, has been under-researched which is why it has been called orphan child and ugly duckling. Therefore, it can be fruitful to devote more attention to voice-over, especially in such countries as Iran where voic و...
This study explored translation strategies by five translation students while translating informative texts. This empirical research applied Think-aloud protocol to gather data by utilizing Bandicam screen recorder. Five BA translation students were requested to translate two informative texts while the Bandicam screen recorder, recorded all their activities. Afterward, the cap و...
This investigation encompasses a discursive analysis to explore how Iranian EFL learners intentions can be construed in terms of some manifestative tokens they apply such as body movements, gestures, styles and facial expressions during their academic lectures. In other words, the focus of the study is on learners’ iterative creation of gesticulations (McNeill, 2005) while givi و...
This study is situated within the tradition of systemic functional linguistics, in the field of second language education, and presents a multimodal analysis of three related undergraduate level textbooks. The purpose of the research is to determine the veracity of claims made by publishers of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) textbooks that their books enable students to dea و...
In the present study, three pre-reading activities including pre-questioning, acquiring knowledge, and information-gap tasks were used to examine the effects of production and comprehension tasks on students reading comprehension. The participants of the study were 90 Iranian male and female English as Foreign language (EFL) learners from two English Institutes in Amol. The ins و...
Many studies have shown that silence and reticence in EFL learners present difficulties for teachers in the classrooms. However, since many teachers are not consciously aware of the reasons underlying learner reticence, they sometimes adopt the easiest option, e.g. they let them be. To address this pedagogically significant issue, this paper aims to examine whether the origin o و...
The use of web-based technology which is believed to have the power to motivate and engage students in the process of learning has received a noticeable level of attention among ELT practitioners. One of the newly-emerged devices of this technology that has been utilized in educational contexts is the Moodle, an open source virtual learning environment. Concerning the paramount و...
One significant aspect of pre-service teachers’ professional development is to acquire the ability of writing critical reflection journals. However, most of the reflection journals they write are considered individualistic, descriptive and not critical. It has been suggested that collaborative reflection can alleviate this problem. Therefore, the aims of the current study were و...
Abstract As an intellectual and behavioral tendency, modernism received considerable attention in specific eras in Iran, particularly after the constitutional revolution during the Qajar dynasty. Various manifestations of modernism were present in social movements, certain laws and regulations, philosophical thought, literature, art, science as well as institutes including tr و...
This study analyzes "Welcome to the Monkey House", a short fiction written by the American writer Kurt Vonnegut in 1968. Having read this short story, it can be understood that different forms of oppression have been employed by the ruling class to repress the citizens in a dystopian society and the dominant leader has made all society uniform and static by inventing ethical bi و...
A very common challenge with which many language teachers in EFL classrooms face is the students’ reluctance to speak in general, and their unwillingness to give summaries, in particular. The present paper aimed to investigate Iranian EFL learners’ opinions about the factors that affect their willingness to give summaries in English language classes. Fifteen students who usuall و...
Selection of events for disseminating knowledge about an specific phenomenon contributes to the construction of narratives about that specific phenomenon in a community. The purpose of this study was to show how the selection of specific events about Barjam helps the construction of narratives that are desired by the IRIB News Agency. To do so, random videos from the IRIB News و...
This paper reports a corpus based study of most frequently used academic words in physics research articles (RAs). A frequency and range- based Physics academic word list (PAWL) was compiled based on a corpus of 1046000 running words of physics RAs from scientific papers published in physics journals. The researchers had access to 30 journals from Shiraz University at the time و...
حوزه «تربیت معلم» زبان انگلیسی نیز به مانند دیگر حوزه های «آموزش زبان انگلیسی» از رویکردهای انتقادی و در راس آن «آموزش انتقادی» تاثیر پذیرفته است. آموزش انتقادی که ریشه در دیدگاههای هنجارشکن نویسنده شهیر برزیلی پائولو فریره در دهه 1970 میلادی دارد، واکنشی قوی در برابر جریان رایج در حوزه آموزش زبان انگلیسی برشمرده می شود که در دو دهه اخیر جایگاهی قابل توجه در این حوزه یافته است. و...
The present qualitative study was conducted to investigate EFL teachers’ beliefs toward technology integration in smart high schools of Hamedan Province. It also explored teachers’ barriers to technology integration. The technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) framework was used in the present study to help explain whether the teachers had the necessary knowledge th و...
The focus of the present study was to identify the effect of Automated Writing Evaluation (AWE) on writing accuracy of Iranian EFL learners. It was also aimed at identifying the learners attitudes toward using AWE in English classes. This being so, 50 female EFL students at the intermediate level of language proficiency participated in the present study. The learners were divid و...
Abstract Academic communication skills are one of the factors that are essential among university students. Through their years in the university, students face with situations, where they have to use their communication skills, such as group assignments and class presentations. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the perception of instructors and students rega و...
Kids have different perspective on language learning. they use significantly different activities to learn the language out side of the classroom.... و...
Researchers have shown that learners vary in the way they understand, organize, and retain information or experience. The learners’ variation is known as their preferred learning style. This study attempted to investigate the preferred learning style(s) of 83 TEFL and Psychology students at Islamic Azad University of Amol. On the result of Reid’s (1984) Perceptual Learning Styl و...
نقش ترجمه در کنشگری سیاسی و مهندسی ایدئولوژیک اذهان عمومی مخاطبان هدف از طریق ایجاد تصویر مورد نظر «حامیان» و کنشگران سیاسی از فرهنگِ کشور و ملّت مبدا و هنجارهای سیاسی و اجتماعی مترتب بر آن از طریق انتخاب متون مربوطه برای ترجمه به زبانهای هدف و نیز تولید و بازتولید روایتهای منتخب و هدفمند در متون ترجمه شده از مهمترین محورهای سیاستگذاری ترجمه در عصر جدید به شمار میرود. «د و...
Abstract Dr.Sedighe Vahda 1 ; Ghodratolah Yosefvand 2 PHD IN TESOL, University of Tehran; s.vahdat@usc.ac.ir MA in TESOL, University of Shahid Chamran; ghyousefvadn@gmail.com SMS learning has an important role in vocabulary learning. The present study investigates the difference(s) between the two modes of learning English words, named SMS leaning and self-study, an و...
A maladjustment behavior is a worldwide phenomenon that influences and cuts across all the psychological developmental stages. In this regard, the current study aimed to examine the contributory role of self-esteem and family relationship status on their susceptibility to social maladjustment and to investigate maladjustment behavior’s influence on Iranian EFL learners’ reading و...
Language learning involves mastery of four skills, among which listening is the most important one since it is considered as the very primary source of input. The present study aims at investigating the effect of learner generated transcriptions on Iranian EFL learners listening comprehension with a focus on the learners’ proficiency level at two levels of pre-intermediate and و...
Philosophy of education as viewed by the stakeholders in Iranian EAP context By: Mohsen Nili Critical English for academic purposes (Critical EAP) is a joint point for English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and Critical Pedagogy, where English language teaching in academic contexts can be more critically investigated. There is scanty research on the critical issues in Iranian ac و...
Content analysis allows researchers to evaluate the potential strengths and weaknesses of a given course book. The purpose of this study is to analytically evaluate Iranian newly developed senior high school English textbooks, entitled English Book for senior high school and prepared by Ministry of Education as an instructional material for senior high school. To this end, the و...
Applicability of Baker’s Narrative Theory on Translation of Historical Texts from English into Persian Asma Alishavandi1; Masoud Sharififar2 1 MA in Translation Studies, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman; asma.alishavandi@yahoo.com 2 Associate Professor of Translation Studies, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman; m.sharifi@uk.ac.ir. Abstract Translators do s و...
Dynamic assessment (DA) is a recent structured approach to interaction in which a teacher cooperatively engages with learners, helping them extend their performance beyond levels they could reach independently, that is, their zone of proximal development (ZPD). This study aimed to explore the possible effects of DA on Iranian EFL learners’ writing skill. In addition, it investi و...
This study tried to investigate the effect of IELTS reading strategy instruction on Iranian EFL learners’ oral reading fluency. To this end, 60 male Iranian foreign language learners with intermediate level of English proficiency were sampled through convenience sampling and later screened by means of a Preliminary English Test (PET). Afterwards, the participants were divided i و...
Today, translation plays a significant role in our multilingual global village. However, there have always been difficulties in the process of this vital activity. One of the most challenging problems in this respect is translating idioms. As a result, this study was intended to investigate the strategies used in the Persian translation of the idioms in George Orwell’s Animal F و...
In his masterpiece: A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams capitalizes on the image of the Orient to enrich his play; however, this cultural reference to the Orient and Orientals is not free from the constraining rules and mechanism of Orientalism. Therefore, the present study in the light of Edward Said’s Orientalism seeks to expose the playwright’s participation in the و...
The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of data–driven learning (DDL) on the vocabulary size of Iranian intermediate EFL learners. The participants of this study were 25 Iranian male and female intermediate EFL learners who were studying English as a foreign language at Mehre Iran institute, Lahijan, Iran. The participants were recruited through applying a co و...
The present study aims to show, through interdisciplinary studies, that habituation never occurs in cinema and poetry. Had both of them had a beginning or not, they would have ceased to be. Neither poetry nor cinema habituates or behaves anything around, but they both act and react against the life; therefore, they never put an end to their own selves. If one regards poetic cin و...
Delving into the role of task characteristics and task conditions in L2 production is important since it gives insights into how tasks should be selected and sequenced in pedagogical contexts. Considering this issue, this study investigated the role of the participatory structure of planning, as a type of task conditions, in L2 oral performance across cognitive task complexity, و...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of collaborative learning activities on student attitudes towards reading comprehension and collaborative learning. Possible differences in attitudes in terms of gender and achievement level of students were also investigated. The study was conducted with one control and one experimental group and 40 students participated و...
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of intentional versus incidental vocabulary instruction on reading comprehension among Iranian young EFL learners. The design being experimental,the participantsof the study comprised 60 students(30 girls and 30 boys) who were chosen randomly from a foreign language institute in Mashhad.They were randomly assigned و...
Abstract Language teachers face different challenges in their profession and lack of ability in dealing with the difficulties of teaching might result in burnout. Resilience, the capacity of sustaining motivation and passion while managing challenges, has attracted remarkable attention in language teacher education studies. In this qualitative study, attempts were made to answ و...
The employment of course management systems has received attention in educational settings very recently; these new user-friendly systems have not been widely employed by second language (L2) institutions and practitioners. As an attempt to shed more light on the effectiveness of Moodle as one of the most popular course management systems for educational purposes, the purpose o و...
An essential part of validation of language proficiency tests has been examining test dimensionality. Various approaches are available to check test dimensionality. Possibly the most frequently applied methods of assessing test dimensionality are based on item response theory (IRT). One of the most fundamental assumptions of IRT is local item independence. That is, responses to و...
Working memory (WM), as a temporary storage and processing system, has been the focus of much recent second language research. Memory processes are assumed to be influenced by a large number of affective factors, including emotional stimuli. Furthermore, it is suggested that there is a trade-off between storage and processing components of WM. This assumption has been the likel و...
The pace and extent of change in technology for language teaching have placed challenging demands on teachers in general and high school EFL teachers and their administrators in specific. One way to comply with these demands would be to define technology standards for teachers that can make teacher technology evaluation process a success. The purpose of the present study was to و...
Over the past few years, researchers in the field of Translation Evaluation have incessantly manifested the necessity of empirical evidence in the evaluation of different translation tests (Eyckmans and Anckaert 2017). Notwithstanding the presence of ‘certifactions of translation skills’ and a great number of appeals regarding objectivity in translation evaluation reverberated و...
The translation of religious and/ or political texts is a sensitive job, which requires both careful and meticulous translation quality assessment. An outstanding example of this domain is Imam Khamenei’s (D. Ẓ. A) letters to the youth in the Western world. This qualitative research which is a descriptive, analytical and comparative model, is carried out to assessing the Englis و...
The current study was designed to address the relationship between Iranian EFL learners’ vocabulary size, and their preferred vocabulary learning strategies. Vocabulary size is a term used for the number of word families a learner knows. Vocabulary learning strategies are a set of strategies that are used by the learners to acquire new words. The focus here was to determine a p و...
Listening is a fundamental skill to be learnt in second language learning and plays a crucial role in becoming proficient in using language. Nowadays, listening comprehension tests have been changed to computer-based tests, including visual input. However researches in this area comparing effectiveness of audio only and video-audio materials yielded inconclusive results. They m و...
A very crucial feature of research article writing is pertinent to lexical bundles. In order to write fluent and readable texts, writers resort to multi-word expressions known as lexical bundles (Hyland, 2008b). Previous studies mostly have focused their attention on comparing these bundles between different disciplines, and quite a few of researchers conducted studies on the w و...
Sentential structure is a mechanism of syntax that forms the basic part of each language. The current study was aimed to investigate the sentential structure of subject and verb positions in French (L3) by bilingual learners (Persian (L1), English (L2)). Moreover, the present study investigated the interrogative structure using auxiliary verbs which are obligatory in first and و...
There is a longstanding interaction between music and literature, especially poetry. A historical perspective, an approach to both that goes beyond each era’s literary forms, shows that music has been influencing drama and particularly poetry from the very beginning. During ancient times, initially, numerous celebrations focused on music and singing, but were soon to include po و...
Technology use is the backbone of any literacy success in the digital age without which information exchange, international communications and access to resources would be impossible. The application of this asset in classroom setting paves the way to better learning, enabling individual learners to keep pace with their own learning and access information without boundaries of و...
This study aims at reading The Death of Ivan Ilych with respect to Baudrillard s theory of consumption. Baudrillard s model provides a fresh outlook for reading the signs in a literary text. He claims that the objects in a consumer society are the signs which can display one s wealth and success. This study will show how the theme of consumerism is presented in this novella, wh و...
The poetry translation lies within the literary area and needs great deal of creativity of behalf of the translators. There have always been arguments over the belief that whether the practice of translation is sufficient for the task of translation or some other factors such as the knowledge of theories are required too. Therefore, the main purpose of this paper is to explore و...
As the finest sonnet Shelley ever wrote, "Ozymandias" (1818) expresses the poet s profoundly eternal hatred of tyranny. One of the distinctive features of the poem is the vividly impressive visual images it presents of the ruined statue and the level sands of the desert. Although the poem, through depicting an extinguished and turned to ash civilization, seems to be utterly pes و...
Since its emergence, the Theory of Multiple Intelligences has absorbed much attention from language learning curriculum designers in general and material developers in particular. There also has been an attempt to investigate multiple inelligences representation in textbooks in the literature of material development ever since. This paper aims at investigating Vision series, a و...
عناصر طبیعی همواره در ادبیات جهان مورد توجه نویسندگان و شاعران بوده اند و آنها به ازدیاد از نقش نمادین این عناصر بهره برده اند. بلبل یکی از نمونه های رایج از این عناصر طبیعی می باشد که مثال های متعدد آن را می توان در ادبیات جهان به ویژه در نوع ادبی شعر، جستجو کرد. نقش نمادین بلبل در ادبیات انگلیسی و ادبیات فارسی که در ادبیات جهان از قدمت بالایی برخوردارند، به وفور به چشم می خور و...
Grammaticality judgment tasks (GJTs) have been frequently used in the field of second language acquisition to elicit data reflecting second language (L2) learners’ knowledge of grammar. However, only a few studies have examined in detail how task features of GJTs, i.e., time pressure, modality, and task stimulus affect language learners’ performance. In addition, a fourth task و...
While a number of studies have investigated the role of vocabulary breadth and depth on reading and listening as receptive skills, little research has been done on the role of these aspects of lexical knowledge on productive skills, specifically the writing performance. Therefore, the goal of this research was to investigate the relevance of vocabulary knowledge to writing perf و...
Lullabies are the earliest poetic and rhythmic ways of connection between mother and child. This type of literature has survived the passage of time in a way that no other literary form could replace it. Another characteristic of the lullabies is that they are not unique to any specific literature and exist in every literature. As such, they have similar structures and thematic و...
براساس آمار منتشرشدة نیویورک تایمز در سال 2018 میزان خرید آثار داستانی نه تنها در ایالات متحده بلکه در کشورهای دیگر نیز بیشتر از آثار غیرداستانی است. آثار غیرداستانی در مقایسه با آثار داستانی از مخاطبین کمتری بهرهمند هستند. فرضیهای که پیش میآید این است که آمار فروش این ژانر از کتاب، بالطبع زمانی که ترجمه میشوند، باید کاهش بیشتری نیز پیدا میکند. اما در پی بررسی انجام شده آث و...
Lexical semantics investigate how the meaning of the lexical units correlates with the structure of the language or syntax. This study aims at considering lexical semantics analysis of 4 stories of Ambrose Bierce’s work, and presenting new perspective on literary translation strategy. Therefore, the Framework theory was presented by Charles j. Fillmore 1976. A semantic frame is و...
Although inclusion is the latest policy for students with disabilities to enjoy equal access to education, its successful implementation is not guaranteed. A combination of focused-group and individual interviews were used in the present study to explore how inclusion is implemented in the EFL context of Iran. To this end, some disabled and non-disabled students (n=36) were ran و...
Known as one of the major sources of information, the ever-available and regularly updated content online ,at times, becomes a platform for power play conducted by the medium of language.The subtle value-laden information , which directly manipulates distribution of power, solidarity and social right, would easily come to light using principles of Critical Discourse Analysis (C و...
Since translators deal with many problems in the translation of collocations, this study is on attempt to find some solutions for these problems. Therefore, this study was conducted on Persian translation of lexical collocations of an English novel, Persuasion by Jane Austen (1817) based on Benson and Ilsonʼs (1997) classification of literal collocations and Newmark’s (1988) mo و...
Translation quality assessment has become an important area to assess the quality of a translation. Indeed, translation as a product has to be measured by some form of quality control. As a method to evaluate the quality of a translated text, House’s revised model of translation quality assessment, is utilized in this paper to assess the quality of the English subtitled Iranian و...
This study was aimed at examining language learners’ engagement with teacher and peer Written Corrective Feedback (WCF). In this qualitative study, 28 intermediate-level learners of English as a foreign language were assigned to two groups. Both groups had to do the same e-mail writing task. In the first groups, the participants received corrective feedback on their text from t و...
Of the major difficulties EAP teachers often face in the moment-by-moment unfolding of classroom discourse is juggling with both language- and subject-related contents, while the latter may fall beyond their realms of knowledge and expertise. In other words, they tend to display teachers’ knowledge deficit of the discipline. This issue is what Wu and Badger (2009) called ‘In-cl و...
The current study sought to investigate the interaction effect of sense of belonging (i.e. institutional identity) and social anxiety on effective teaching among college language teachers. To do so, 68 university teachers working in Zanjan, Hamedan and Tabriz were selected through convenience sampling; subsequently, the Institutional Identity Questionnaire primarily developed b و...
Pronunciation is an integral part of foreign language learning since it directly affects learners’ communicative competence as well as performance. Also language learning strategies are a key factor in language learning. The present study investigated the relationship between choice of learning strategies and frequency of their use and appropriate pronunciation accuracy. 60 par و...
Research on Translation Studies has recently moved away from linguistic-focused approaches towards sociological ones. The translation industry has recently enjoyed a flourishing global market, and therefore, it makes sense to investigate topics related to job market from the perspective of sociology of translation. The purpose of this study was to investigate the realities of E و...
The ultimate goal of teaching literature is to transform it from ethereal to practical; from the lost paradise of conceits and oxymorons to the banal street car reality of a salesman, this path does not pass through previewing prismatic types of literary criticism or reporting the interpretations of other critics, but via engaging them in an active reading of the literary texts و...
It is not uncommon for research in postgraduate translation studies in Iran to apply already established models of translation into the Iranian context, mutatis mutandis. The application of dichotomies, often in the name of ‘translation strategies’, is arguably among the most popular lines of research in Iran. However, it is often the case that the logical fallacy immanent in t و...
The present study aimed at investigating the potential effects of a cognitive-based metaphoric mapping instruction (MMI) approach on Iranian English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ recognition and retention of figurative language at different levels of English proficiency. To do so, 90 upper-intermediate and lower-intermediate Iranian EFL learners were chosen from an Engl و...
Quality has always been a critical issue in translation. This issue becomes more salient when it comes to machine translation. Post-editing is one of the tools which can be used to counter the low quality of machine translated materials. The present study compares the quality of post-editing performed by M.A. students in translation studies and M.A. students of Economics. A tot و...
The present study compared the impact of teacher- and peer-feedback on the writing performance of ELT learners in the Wiki-based environment. It also investigated whether Wiki can improve language learners’ writing performance or not. To this end, 80 intermediate Iranian language learners took part in the study. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used. Pre-test and و...
Drama is the dominant literary form in English literature of the Renaissance period. Teaching English Renaissance drama is a demanding task, not just because English language has changed a lot since the Renaissance period but also because it is difficult to impart a sense of the historical, socio-cultural aura of these works to the students. In other words, due to the wide cult و...
Teacher Education has always been the subject of a large proportion of research and has made significant strides in studying the sophisticated relationship among teachers beliefs and pedagogical practices. While several investigations of this type have been conducted in different areas, pronunciation has received very little attention. The purpose of this study was to explore I و...
A large body of research has documented that simply assigning learners in pairs to have dyadic interaction will not necessarily create favorable learning opportunities as pair members rarely ‘interthink’. As Mercer and Littleton (2007) stated, pair members “may interact but rarely interthink” (p.50). To have true collaboration, learners are needed to be aware of how to actively و...
Non-native English speaking (NNES) authors are increasingly being pressured to refer to copy editors to have their manuscripts linguistically improved to get published in accredited international journals. Despite the important responsibility that copy editors shoulder in deciding the ultimate fate of academic papers, nearly no studies have systematically explored the effects e و...
Much research has confirmed the important role of vocabulary in assessing second-language reading performance. (e.g., Nassaji, 2006; Qian, 1999; Qian & Schedl, 2004; Read, 2004; Schmitt, 2001, 2008). For this, high school teachers feel responsible for achieving curriculums and preparing students for University Entrance Exam ̎ Konkoor ̎. In the present study, a correlation desig و...
The necessity of integrating culture teaching in foreign language education has been long recognized by scholars and educators, but what kinds of cultural information should be taught is still a confusing problem. In Iran, English is taught as a foreign language, so the most of English teaching and learning happen in classrooms, which means teaching materials play an important و...
This paper is a belated acknowledgement of the role of politeness as conceptualised through indirect reporting. Politeness is quintessential in discussing a sound theory of social interaction in general and pragmatics in particular. After some general elaborations on ethical issues and moral standards during interaction, this paper introduces the concept of the ‘Dynamic Dialogi و...
The present article aims to analyze King’s novel It (1986) from possible worlds theory and mental space theory to shed light on how coulrophobia makes readers and even the trauma characters themselves create a possible world, and how they comprehend this narrative through their mental projection onto the stories in the reading process. The first section of the analysis identifi و...
by reading John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667), we encounter an undecidable ground and involve in a type of converse and strange comprehension of the text. As a matter of fact, the words we read in the text of Paradise Lost can only be paradoxically understood as responses to prior signals and appear differently from what a reader expects. For instance, Paradise Lost begins by a و...
Due to the important role that gender may play in the process of language learning, the purpose of this study was to investigate the potential role of gender in brain dominance quadrants. In addition, the second purpose of this study was to discover the possible relationship between gender and learning styles. To this end, a total of 121 male and female Iranian English as a For و...
Audiovisual translation, including dubbing, majorly involves translation of dialogues, through which a substantial amount of plotline and characterization is communicated to the viewers. Although classic, Gricean maxims (quality, quantity, relevance, and manner) can provide a helpful guideline in modern studies for analysis of all dialogues—film dialogues are no exception. In a و...
Recently, the ability to write in a second language has widely been recognized as an important skill for educational, business, and personal reasons. Furthermore, whenever the acquisition of a specific language skill is seen as important, it becomes equally important to test that skill and writing is no exception. The present study compared the achievement of EFL students on a و...
The aim of this study was assessing two Persian translations of “The Bad Girl” by “Mario Vargas Llosa” based on Waddington’s Translation Quality assessment model that is basically holistic. The main aim was to see whether these two translations could truly demonstrate the socio-political context of the author’s time. In order to accomplish the above mentioned aim of the study, و...
Questions pertaining to the translator’s creativity have long been acknowledged as an important aspect of translation. However, the attention to translators taking advantage of the option of being creative when translating, the amount of creativity permitted, the most/least frequent strategies used by translators in the process of creative translation; text types are untouched و...
Political leaders play an important role in facilitating peace and their validity is appreciated due to the fact that they have people who follow them and believe in what they say and act accordingly. Considering the fact that politicians employ the language and discourse to read and control people’s minds, the current study was intrigued to discuss ideologies that are complete و...
Samuel Beckett’s first published novel, Murphy (1938), is the story of ‘big blooming buzzing confusion’ in the life of an unstable man who longs for nothing more than rocking on a chair and daydreaming. Murphy is a bizarre work that questions lots of metaphysical issues and standards, and contributes to a new framework of study under the influence of post structuralism. In Murp و...
Omid Tabatabaei English Department, Najafabad Branch, Ialamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran This study was aimed to investigate the difference between using English conjunctions in academic articles in Iran fron those written in the US. The researcher selected ten American academic articles, and ten Iranian academic articles from the Web (corpora), randomly. These articles و...
As the idea of metacognition entered the field of education, educational studies started to ask more particularly about associations between metacognitive practices and student accomplishment. Research in this area offered ascend to the idea of situated metacognition wherein particular metacognitive strategies are inserted into already established curriculum keeping in mind the و...
One of the most complex and consequential tasks of a teacher is grading. Grades assigned by teachers are usually considered as subjective and unreliable measures of student achievement as teachers do not always assign grades based on achievement. However, grades might indicate a mixture of different factors that teachers value. The primary purpose of this study was to clarify t و...
This paper studies trauma in Cormac McCarty’s The Road in the context of post-apocalyptic world. The selected novel focuses on the dominant traumatic instances that have influenced the character’s lives. In The Road, the father and his son are not alone in the early stages of the narrative as they are initially accompanied by an unnamed woman, who is the man’s wife and the boy’ و...
One of the factors that affect learning a foreign language is motivation. Many studies have been conducted on motivational factors, but studies related to demotivating and remotivating aspects are scant. The present study, as a non-experimental, descriptive design, focused on demotivating factors and compared Iranian intermediate high schoolers and institute EFL learners. In do و...
Following the rising tide of calls for decreasing class affective factors which are thought to block students’ learning, this study aims to investigate 3 different types of error correction in order to figure out which type is more effective than the others for eradicating students’ intonation errors and affective factors of their learning as well. Referring to the different te و...
Worlding agendas occupy a large part of science fiction concerned with man’s migration to other spaces and populating them. These agendas require a large scale of calculations, speculations, and practice considering the issues of dealing with extraterrestrial beings, terraforming the land, and shaping new governmental patterns, and social as well as economic structures. These a و...
By and large, experimental pragmatics research on (im)politeness involves “off-line” methodologies. That is to say, data reflect ratings or understanding of given texts or interactions after they have been processed. “On-line” methods provide moment-by-moment data collection as input is processed. Several studies have been conducted on second language learners’ processing. Howe و...
The present study aims at exploring the relation of EFL learners reflective thinking attitudes and language achievement (GPA). The association of the learners thinking styles with their educational levels were also estimated. To this end, 275 students from universities of Gonabad and Mashhad took part in this study. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and co-rel و...
Established on the basis of Vygotsky s notion of ZPD, dynamic assessment (DA) has become a growing trend in language education. However, little attention has been paid to learners conceptual development (awareness, volition, and systematicity) and their ability to generalize an instructed concept to a new context. To this aim, the interactionist model of DA was implemented to d و...
Flipped Classroom Approach (FCA) is a widely-known approach which has received extensive empirical attention. However, critics of this approach have leveled their concerns about its effectiveness on different language areas and skills. Given this backdrop, this study aimed to explore the impact of FCA on Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ performance in terms و...
Students develop their self-efficacy beliefs as they interpret information from four sources; mastery experience, vicarious experience, social persuasion and physiological state (Bandura, 1997). Their self-efficacy beliefs affect their perception of personal responsibility for learning (Kitsantas and Zimmerman 2009; Zimmerman1994). The purpose of this study was to assess the re و...
During simultaneous interpreting, it is likely that interpreters encounter with tweeter messages, which might be challenging, due to their informativeness and conciseness, to interpret. The present study aims to investigate the techniques applied by interpreting trainees dealing with tweeter messages while simultaneously interpreting. To this end, 10 MA English Translation stud و...
Improving EFL Learners’ Speaking Accuracy and Fluency through Input Flooding ABSTRACT The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of using input flooding technique on EFL learners’ speaking accuracy and fluency. On the basis of Preliminary English Test (PET), 56 learners out of 85 Iranian intermediate female EFL learners with the age range of 18-28 from و...
غنای سرمایۀ فرهنگی هر ملّت را سنن و آثار ادبی، هنری، دینی و فلسفی آن در طی قرون و اعصار متمادی شکل میدهد و تلاش و اهتمام هر ملتی معرّفی، ترویج و جهانیساختن چنین سرمایهای در میدان جهانی است. بیشک ترجمه رسالت ابراز و اشاعۀ اندیشهها و مفاهیم ارزشی یک ملّت و یا یک مکتب فکری به دیگران را دارد که میتواند در قالب فعالیّتهای ترجمانی بنیادهای پیرو آن تفکّر تحقّق یابد. یکی از این و...
Translating, in many ways, involves the cognitive process of problem-solving. Exploring the strategies the translators use in solving the problems may fairly delineate how translators’ minds work. The present study aimed at investigating the different problem-solving strategies used by the introvert and extrovert translation students of the Islamic Azad University of Qaemshahr و...
This paper reports the results of a study investigating the relationship between Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers’ professional identity. To this end, a sequential explanatory mixed methods design was adopted. In the quantitative phase, 148 Iranian EFL teachers filled out NLP questionnaire developed by Pishghadam, Shayesteh, an و...
This research aims at investigating the lexical semantics analysis of 4 stories of Ambrose Bierce’s work and presenting a new perspective on literary translation strategy. Lexical semantics looks at how the meaning of the lexical units correlates with the structure of the language or syntax. To do so, the Framework theory was presented by Charles j. Fillmore 1976. The basic ide و...
As academic education is to prepare students for entry into the professional market, in recent years, translation technologies as a requirement of translation professionalism, have also been included in the curriculum of translation studies in Iran. But, these technologies to be effective need to some extent be in line with the requirements of the labor market. Now considering و...
Traditionally, the teaching of EFL in Iran is dominated by a book-centered, teacher-centered, grammar-translation method and a focus on mechanical memory. Such traditional language teaching approaches have lead to a number of typical learning styles, with audial learning being one of them. A teacher must provide her lesson plan around her learners. After the teacher knows the l و...
This study outlines the use of learner corpora in conducting a corpus-driven error analysis to explore authentic learner errors with respect to their frequencies, typology of errors, and contexts in which the errors are regularly seen in learners’ writings. It has been argued that learner-generated texts provide second language researchers and teachers with an invaluable contex و...
Textbooks play a significant role in the process of teaching and learning in the classroom. The current study investigated the appropriateness and effectiveness of the high school English textbook “vision 3” to point out the shortcomings which have been hindering the Iranian students from mastering the English language in high school. The participants of the study consisted of و...
This study explores the extent to which L2ers of English are sensitive to Subject-Verb (S-V) agreement errors with thematic verbs and copulas. A group of intermediate-to-advanced Persian-English L2ers and a group of native English speakers (NSs) participated in an online speeded grammaticality judgment task. Additionally, L2ers participated in an offline grammaticality judgment و...
This study adopts a discourse analysis approach to explore the relationship between the ratings teachers receive from their students and their discourse behaviors in an EFL context. Two Iranian teachers of EFL were selected based on their student ratings as high- and low-rated teachers. Then, each were audio-recorded and transcribed for a total of 90 minutes during the course o و...
Due to the nature of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course materials, the question of who should teach these courses has been a continuing concern. The purpose of this study was to implement and evaluate Supportive Co-Teaching (SC-T) approach in an ESP course of Orthoses and Prostheses in two consecutive semesters. The study was conducted at the school of Rehabilitation و...
Textbooks are essential components of English as a Foreign Language classrooms. Textbook evaluation is therefore of great importance. It can help beginner teachers in syllabus design and progress in a class. Classroom teachers use different textbooks in EFL classes, so choosing an appropriate textbook can be useful, and in order to achieve this goal, textbooks evaluation should و...
Abstract In the 21st century, English is no doubt the most commonly spoken language. As a global language, English has attracted a dramatic number of people to learn English as their second or foreign language during the past several decades. According to World Languages and Cultures, the importance of learning the English language in the global market include: (a) increasing و...
The present study set out to investigate the effect of scaffolding of oral reproduction of English short stories via a social network on teenage EFL learners’ speaking fluency and accuracy. Also, the students’ attitudes towards using a social network in language learning contexts were to be investigated. To do so, a quantitative study was conducted with a sample of 60 pre-inter و...
Drawing principally from Henry Louise Gates’ conception of ‘Signifying Monkey’, Malachi Andrews and Paul Owens together with Roger Abrahams’ definition of this African-American concept, this paper aims to explore the ways in which Odysseus encounters the Cyclops, in Derek Walcott s the Odyssey: A Stage Version (1993). It examines Odysseus’ strategic conduct as well as his calcu و...
Cognitive load plays an important role in learning in general and L2 listening comprehension in particular. This study is an attempt to investigate the effect of metacognitive instruction (MI) and metacognitive instruction through dialogic interaction (MIDI) on L2 listeners’ cognitive load. Mixed method design with 60 participants of male and female Iranian advanced learners be و...
Constrained-based models claim that besides syntactic information, multiple sources of information influence sentence processing. One of the possibly facilitating cues in sentence processing, based on the embodied semantics theory, could be the sensorimotor experiences that learners are represented with in the mind which has not been much investigated in young learners yet. To و...
Modern tragedy has placed itself within the heart of contemporary literature since the onset of the new literary tradition known as modernism, which flourished along with the ongoing tragedy of the twentieth-century life to constitute the fundamentals of human existence and the basis of psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theories on the nature of language. Soon after Friedric و...
Corrective Feedback (CF) can provide the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners with the chance to become aware of their progress before any assessment. However, the findings of the previous studies on the effect of direct focused CF in EFL classes are inclusive. The present study aimed to examine the effect of direct focused CF on students’understanding of phrasal verbs و...
This study intends to analyse True West by Sam Shepard which is classified as a part of his family plays trilogy. It is crucial and vital to pinpoint the forces that have shaped the American people’s psyche and culture, therefore, the play should be read in the light of American Exceptionalism. This play shows the downfall of the American dream and the Myth of the frontier whic و...
The impact of team teaching on Willingness to communicate and vocabulary knowledge of EFL class in Azad University of Kerman Sara Lashkari ; Leila Anjomshoa MA in Teaching English, Kerman Branch, Islamic Azad University , Kerman, Iran PhD in Teaching English, Kerman Branch ,Islamic Azad University , Kerman, Iran Abstract Abstract Humans have always been dependent to و...
The current research reports on a comparative study performed in the field of Corpus Linguistics. The objective of the research was to uncover and analyze the distributional pattern of interactive and interactional metadiscourse features in two modes of academic spoken and written English. For this reason, two corpora of British Academic Written English Corpus and British Acade و...
Given the pivotal role of the translator as a mediator between cultures in today’s world, translation training is of great importance. In the context of translation training, the notion of translation competence (TC) plays a prominent role. However, a few number of studies investigated a practical procedure for developing students’ translation competence. As a result, this stud و...
This reflective essay examines writing assessment as perceived within the three paradigms of Standard English (Davies, 2002), World Englishes (WEs, henceforth) (Lowenberg, 2002) and English as an International Language (EIL, henceforth) (Canagarajah, 2006). In each of the perspectives, the way construct of writing is theorized and then informs the assessment practice are critic و...
Most L2 learners are reported to omit English articles in their output. As most formulaic expressions include one of English articles, this study attempted to find whether elicitation of these expressions in pushed output might accelerate use of articles in L2 learners’ production. this study, then, aimed to investigate the impact of learning formulaic L2 expressions on English و...
Translators usually concentrate more on the matter (or meaning) than the manner (or form) of source texts. That is why style has received less attention than it merits. Style is commonly discussed in relation to literary texts. In such contexts, it can refer to the individuality of a poet, playwright, short-story or novel writer. The present study aims to investigate strategies و...
Porochista Khakpour, an Iranian-American writer, captures the essence of belonging to two distinct worlds in her two novels, The Last Illusion and Sons and Other Flammable Objects. As a feral child who has been raised among birds, Zal, the protagonist of the former novel, believes himself to be a bird, and consequently, when he is introduced to the world of human beings, he str و...
Task-based studies have provided ample evidence that task repetition and post-task transcribing positively affect the quality of oral production. However, such studies have rarely examined the immediate effect of post-task transcribing on EFL learners’ subsequent oral performances. To address this pedagogically important issue, this paper presents the results of a study which a و...
Scholars have explored the psychological meaning of nature in the nineteenth-century gothic short stories for decades. They have widely used theories of Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung in which nature is considered as a reflection of dreams, the unconscious of the protagonist, and the collective unconscious of society. However, recently Andrew Smith and William Hughes have p و...
Due to the significant role of textbooks in English language teaching program, the present study aimed to evaluate theTop Notch book series from teachers and learners perspectives. To do so, 63 EFL learners and 32 EFL teachers were selected based on availability sampling to take part in the study. They completed a modified version of Demir and Ertas’s (2014) Eclectic Checklist و...
The present study examined the domains of personality traits and writing anxiety among Iranian EFL learners. To see whether there is any relationship between the two variables. The participants under the study were 80 male and female English learners within the age of 15 to 28. In order to accomplish the purpose of the study, Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (SLWAI) (c و...
Pragmatic as a sub-category of linguistic plays a significant role in learning a foreign language (Crystal1997) and to make someone aware of something, consciousness-raising task are designed. Consequently, this study was done to investigate the effect of consciousness raising on the pragmatic development of thanking and congratulating of Iranian EFL intermediate learners in sp و...
English books taught in Iranian schools have never considered EFL students’ paragraph structure awareness. However; paragraph structure instruction has been provided for Iranian 12th grade students in Vision 3. This study investigated the effect of this type of instruction to shed more light on the role that paragraph structure instruction plays on reading comprehension of Iran و...
This study aimed at investigating the impact of teaching note taking strategies on speaking performance of holistic and analytic EFL learners. To fulfill this purpose, 60 Iranian male and female intermediate students from Sharif University, the Faculty of Engineering, aged between 18 to 22 years old, took part in the study. The classes were intact and nonrandomized. After assur و...
Translation programmes have thus far done little to heal the deepening rift between training and the twenty-first-century exigencies of the real-world market of translation. That said, translation pedagogy is in the precarious situation of falling into the loop of ‘methods’ – a trend of which TESOL unchained itself a while ago. The present work is an analytical report of a tran و...
The goal of the current study was to investigate the use of interactive and interactional metadiscourse markers in 8 English Language Teaching (ELT) books, namely Top Notch and Summit. To achieve the purpose of this study, all the Reading sections in these series were selected. These readings were different in terms of frequency and level of difficulty. According to Hyland’s (2 و...
As a new instructional strategy, flipped classroom relies on asynchronous video lectures, active involvement of learners within groups, and problem-solving activities in the classroom. This study was done to explore the likely effects of flipped learning on the learners’ performances in classes of general English in Farhangian University of Mashhad. The study population consist و...
Vocabulary learning is a crucial part of acquiring a language. According to Webb (2014), learning vocabulary is essential for language proficiency, but learning words regardless of their relationship with other words is not enough. Accordingly, this study aimed to investigate the effect of teacher’s voice vs. written messages via WhatsApp on Iranian EFL learners’ learning and r و...
Regarding the fundamental role of qualified teachers in educational system and effective learning, this study aimed to investigate the characteristics of an effective English language teacher (EELT) from English language teachers and learners point of view. For this purpose, a reliable and valid questionnaire, was administered to 30 English language teachers and 60 EFL learners و...
Contradictions in Using Group Work in EFL Classrooms: Activity Theory Perspective in an Autoethnographic Study Roqayeh Enferad1*, Baqer Yaqubi2, Seyyed Ghasem Hassani3 1MA Candidate in TEFL, University of Mazandaran; Email: R.Enferad@stu.umz.ac.ir 2Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Mazandaran; Email: Yaqubi@umz.ac.ir 3Assistant Professor of TEFL, Universi و...
In this study, the researchers examined the uses of Persian language in some English language learning classes within some sampled English institutes and schools (both ordinary & featured) in Sabzevar, Iran in 2018. The aims were to examine when, how and for what reasons targeted learners and teachers used Persian in class contexts and to examine restrictions of English uses in و...
This study aims to improve the students’ reading comprehension of descriptive text through TPRC strategy (Think, Predict, Read, and Connect) by an experimental design which used qualitative and quantitative methods for data collection. The research design included pre-test, treatment, post-test and interview with experimental group to obtain the data. The participants of this s و...
comprehensible input is regarded as an essential element in second language (L2) learning; however, input alone has been shown to be insufficient. This study aimed to compare the effect of input and output follow-up activities on learning of the English past perfect tense. Sixty Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) learners of pre-intermediate level participated in this و...
This study intends to carry out a Foucauldian analysis of Margaret Atwood’s 2019 novel, the Testaments, focusing on the relationship between power and discourse and their use in leading a fictional dystopian society. The Testaments is the story of a society managed by dictator, corrupt and illegitimate leaders who tactfully govern people and suppress women by using techniques s و...
The present study was an attempt to provide empirical evidence on whether TEFL or specialist subject matter ESP teachers were perceived as more qualified by their learners. Besides, the interaction effect of major and teaching experience on the teaching effectiveness of ESP teachers was examined. Through convenience sampling procedure, a sample of 60 ESP teachers and their 600 و...
The Effect of Synchronous and Asynchronous Multimodal Scaffolding on the Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners Giti Mousapour1; Maryam Zeynali2 1 Associate Professor of TEFL, University of Sistan and Balouchestan; Email: gmousapour@gmail.com 2MA in English Language Teaching, Sistan and Balouchestan Universit; Email: Maryamzeynali88@gmail.com Abstract Due to the progress of و...
Revolving around the question of post-9/11 truth, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, with the subjects of Muslim experience and diasporic subjectivity at the heart of it, offers an account of the entanglement of power relations between the United States and Middle-East that influences not only the military but also civilians. The sui generis narrator of the novel voices his concerns و...
Saul Bellow’s characters usually unveil melancholic symptoms. They are typically occupied by feelings of fear, woebegone, and desolation; they loathe themselves; and, they are disposed to recklessness and self-annihilation. Their dejection and agony are because of imbalances they experience in their life. A body in space can be discursive configuring action, meaning, plan, plot و...
The Impact of Imagery Skills on writing skills of Iranian Elementary EFL Learners Dr. Hamid Reza Shahidy *, Sheida Adibi Abstract Many learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) have problems with writing and promoting their ability to communicate through writing, but in the big area of second language acquisition, there are methods that can serve a facilitating funct و...
Having been arranged in the form of letters including pieces of news that get exchanged between two friends residing in two different countries, Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh’s short story “One-sided Prejudice” is expressive in exhibiting different mentalities and perspectives within the lines of just one text. In this regard, “One-sided Prejudice” lends itself to be examined through و...
Professional development for teachers is essential nowadays. Teachers‟ teaching quality should increases and fulfills their expectations. Teachers‟ preparation courses should shift from training to development. It is necessary to take teachers‟ perception and voices into account to provide effective teacher education and professional development. The findings of this study reve و...
Flipped Classroom Approach (FCA) is a significant teaching approach which provides a blended learning environment and allows the students to engage in active learning. However, very few studies have investigated learners’ feelings regarding the application of FCA in the classroom. This study aims to examine English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students’ feelings towards FCA in r و...
ترجمه دیداری و شنیداری در سالها اخیر بسیار مورد توجه قرار گرفته است لیکن یکی از زیرشاخههای اصلی ترجمه دیداری و شنیداری یعنی زیرنویس به وسیله طرفداران کمتر در محافل دانشگاهی ایران مورد توجه قرار گرفته است. پژوهش حاضر با اتحاذ رویکردی جامعه شناختی به دنبال ارزیابی انگیزهها و دلایل فعالیت مترجمان غیرحرفهای در چارچوب نظریه بوردیو است. به این منظور از روش تحقیق آمیخته (متشکل و...
The present study investigated whether the use of flipped instructed English language teaching had an influence on Iranian EFL learners discourse in terms of their reasoning skills. The study sought to explore the differential effects of two techniques: introducing flipped teaching for class discussions and applying traditional group discussion method. The participants of this و...
The flowering of interest in travel narratives in the recent decades has produced much research on the vast body of Western travel writing on Iran. Iran has been a favorite destination for women travelers from various walks of life since the mid-nineteenth century. Jill Worrall (1960-), a tour guide and travel writer from New Zealand, recently travelled to Iran and explored the و...
Realist fiction is widely considered an outdated mode in contemporary literary scene as modernism, postmodernism and poststructuralism have raised some serious challenges against it, advocating experimentalism in fiction, instead. Still, in our age, when globalization and capitalism breed different forms of marginalizations and injustices in societies, it is the realist fiction و...
Essential Aspects in the Domain of Degree in Derivational Prefixes Alireza Pourdastmalchi MA in TESL/TEFL Studies, Colorado State University; Email: Alireza_pdt@yahoo.com Abstract Teaching prefixes and suffixes is an important part of building better readers and writers. Whether in the early years or advancing through college, all students can learn prefixes and و...
This paper aims to propose crowdsourcing translation as an effective solution as well as being time saving and economic in improving the translation quality of the MTs. In the present paper the performance of two MTs, Google Translate and Microsoft websites, regarding the translation of Homonyms into Persian Language over time has compared and contrasted. The researcher had com و...
Task complexity in L2 writing and its effect on syntactic complexity have been of much research interest in the field of second language acquisition. However, very few studies have attempted to explore the impact of task complexity on measures of syntactic complexity in learners’ performance in integrated writing tasks. Therefore, the present study purported to investigate the و...
The importance and effectiveness of task-based instruction for developing speaking skill as one of the most cognitively demanding tasks within the field of ELT is neglected in our local context of language teaching and learning. Borrowing insights from Eliss’ Task language learning theory (2009), the researcher in this study intended to investigate the role of manipulation of t و...
The present study investigated the differences in the acquisition of English relative clauses (RCs) between Persian speakers learning English as a foreign language on the one hand, and Azeri Turkish speakers who learn English as a third language in Iran. This study also tried to delve into finding differences in the acquisition of RCs between bilingual Iranian Turk learners and و...
Recent research has identified many influencing factors on language teachers motivation (e.g., vision, immunity, learners achievement, teachers self, job satisfaction, social relationship). Among the mentioned issues, language teachers immunity seems to be a relatively new concept. Therefore, the present mixed methods research was set out with the purpose of examining the possi و...
Spiritual intelligence is the ability to create meaning based on a deep comprehension of existential tenets, the ability to access higher meanings, values, and unconscious aspects of the self and to use multiple levels of consciousness in problem solving. Despite the growing interest among scholars to study the development of this construct and find its cause on one’s life, few و...
Recent development in language teaching methodology have led to a renewed interest about the pedagogical utility of framework in English For Academic purposes(EAP). The feedback provided by related program evaluations have heightened the need for language and content teachers’ cooperation and collaboration in EAP/ESP situations . Accordingly the main objective of the present st و...
Interlingual and intralingual localization of audiovisual texts in Iran is a thriving field of practice and research, which is faced with recurrent and new challenges. The field involves a vast domain that can be considered and approached from several distinct angles. Firstly, it entails audiovisual translation services on the one hand and accessibility services on the other ha و...
The main focus of this study is cross-linguistics influence of the L2 English, on the L1 Persian phonology. Some aspects of the present study involved influence of some non- native phonological aspects including intonation, stress, and chunking on L1. A quantitative study was conducted to provide statistical evidence of reverse transfer among 50 Iranian students categorized in و...
The aim of this paper is to study how the themes of nature, land and identity is presented in relation to the concept of ecocriticism in the two novels of Louise Erdrich, Tracks(1988) and Four Souls(2004).This paper emphasizes the influence of physical environment on Native Americans through the ecocritical theory of Lawrence Buell. Furthermore this paper aims to uphold that th و...
In the U.S.A. trilogy, Dos Passos undertook the task of representing the American life-style of twelve fictive characters from the early 1900s to the late 1930s that, under the influence of the consumption culture of their time, are in incessant struggle for wealth and prestige. The trilogy also incorporates multiple narrative techniques, namely the "Camera Eye," the "Newsreel" و...
Effects of Teaching Study Skills on Iranian Pre- Intermediate EFL Students’ Writing Narjes Heidari, Ph.D candidate narjesheidari5@gmail.com Azizeh Chalak, Associate Professor Azichalak@gmail.com English Department, Isfahan (Khorasgan) branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran Abstract It has been widely believed that writing, among the four language skills, is th و...
The present study aimed to investigate the effects of using interactive strategies on the speaking skill of Iraqi EFL learners at Babylon University. The participants included 70 EFL intermediate. The participants were randomly divided into control and experimental groups. In the experimental group, the teacher employed Interactive Strategies, such as brainstorming, discussion, و...
As the current generation has been faced with innovative advancements in technology and the fact that the internet is an inseparable part of people’s lives, it is essential to provide new techniques and materials for teaching to meet the needs and wishes of learners. The article aimed to study the implementation of edutainment in audiovisual translation classrooms and appropria و...
It has been purported that learning a foreign or second language, whatever it is, can best occur only under certain favorable circumstances. The lack of any of those particular circumstances would lead to severe, interminable problems in learning, i.e. either incomplete, inappropriate learning or no learning at all will happen. This study surveys those characteristics of Irania و...
The (non)use of politeness strategies by the writers in the screenplays are so influential in the plots since it could offer helpful information regarding characterization in the films, particularly by helping audiences to infer characters’ qualities from the dialogues and understand the characters’ personalities better. Therefore, careful transfer of politeness strategies in t و...
Postcolonial (African) literature as a counter discourse in literature attempts to refute and dismantle the negative prevailing images by the Westerners toward the colonized [African] subjects and resist the colonizer/colonized dichotomy. In this regard, African writers and critics write back to not only dismantle such binary dichotomies, but also to assert the lost dignity, id و...
Social Phobia (SP) is a serious disorder with deep roots in childhood that could possibly lead to poor relationships and social isolation among some children in educational contexts. While several studies have explored SP in educational and clinical psychology, there is scant research examining this potentially important variable in the English Language Teaching (ELT) field. Th و...
From all technological breakthroughs of the 21st century, Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment (MOODLE) as an advanced, highly flexible course management system (CMS) has marked a major milestone in pedagogy by allowing practitioners with little or no computer savvy at all to design and implement online courses aiming to foster learners’ motivation, autonomy, an و...
This study aimed at investigating the effect of EFL teachers’ online grammar tests on EFL students’ grammatical competence. Having administered an Oxford Quick Placement Test (OQPT), 30 out of a pile of 68 ninth grade Iranian high school EFL students with intermediate level of English proficiency were selected and randomly assigned into two equal groups of control and experi و...
This project concerns with crowdsourcing Translation as a post-editing means of translations produced via Machine Translation, through a cloud-based Smartphone App (Telegram) as a crowdsourcing platform. The selected Translation Machines were Google Translate website and Farazin Translator website. As a first step, random expressions from health-related texts/sources were c و...
Abstract The present study aimed at investigating the comparative effect of cooperative and competitive learning on EFL learners’ speaking ability and self-confidence. Moreover, it intended to identify EFL students’ attitudes toward cooperative and competitive learning. To this end, 90 male intermediate EFL learners were selected among 140 through their performance on a sam و...
Non-native English speaking (NNES) authors are increasingly being pressured to refer to copy editors to have their manuscripts linguistically improved to get published in accredited international journals. Despite the important responsibility that copy editors shoulder in deciding the ultimate fate of academic papers, nearly no studies have systematically explored the effects e و...
Although considerable research has been carried out into lexical bundles in various discourses, rather little attention has been paid to analyzing lexical bundles in research articles in different rhetorical sections. Therefore, the present study intends to identify lexical bundles across the three main sections of the research articles, namely, Introduction, Method and Results و...
Despite negative comments of scholars at the time, gothic fiction went high in stature during 1790s following the publication of novels by Horace Walpole and Anne Radcliffe as predecessors of the genre. This genre has been subject to many critical studies with various perspectives through decades. Although numerous lenses have been explored and examined on gothic novels, Jane A و...
rror correction and the impending benefits it has on students’ writing development have drawn attention of researchers and practitioners. This study sought to explore the effect of written corrective feedback provided through oral conferencing with that of instruction in writing given through consciousness-raising tasks on the writing performance of 82 upper-intermediate EFL le و...
One of the main concerns of EFL/ESL teachers and correspondingly the researchers in discipline is vocabulary learning. Vocabulary can be learned in a variety of ways, including visual aids and strategies. Accordingly, this study aimed to probe the effect of horror animations vs. comic animations with or without Persian and English subtitles on elementary EFL learners’ vocabular و...
Sensitivity of Different Test types to Test-Taking Strategies Fatemeh Mahjourian Ghomi PhD Candidate in TEFL, University of Tehran; Email: f.mahjourian@ut.ac.ir Abstract The objectives were to determine whether teaching test-taking strategies has any impact on the performance of learners taking MCT (multiple-choice test) and cloze test and to determine whether و...
This study examined the translation strategies employed by two groups of translators, IRIB official and non/semi-professional translators, in the context of audiovisual translation of movies. It also explored the existence of any significant relationship between the genre, production year of the movies and the translation strategies. To this end, a total of 151 English movies, و...
Song Translation as a relevant area to Translation Studies, has been receiving attention over the past decade. Macro level and Micro level strategies in rendering songs have been the most common interest among researchers. In this study; however, we attempted at moving beyond the question of strategy in translating songs and explored the style of translated songs. For this و...
Idiomatic expressions have an extent use in everyday language, but they have always been very difficult for foreign language learners to comprehend and use. The use of technologies like mobile phones in teaching and learning can provide a pleasant learning condition and positively affect learning idioms. So, this study examines the effect of Flipped Classroom on enhancing Engli و...
Over the past decades, the development and use of educational games have gained unprecedented momentum to the extent that practitioners now need to rethink current practices and to show wider recognition for the potentiality of games for enhanced learning in game-based learning (GBL) environments. Educational games have defined learning outcomes and seek to balance the learning و...
The artist is to create art, and the best art is the one in which reflects the nature, or has an attempt in representing the pure elements of nature. Poetry is a distinctive form of art, likewise the painting. Significantly, the painting has an intercourse with poetry, however on the surface, it seems to be absolutely silent, but it may talk louder. The poet makes an effort to و...
Vocabulary knowledge is an essential element in learning a foreign language (Schmitt, 2008). Among a variety of strategies used for L2 vocabulary development, vocabulary logs have been recommended as useful tools (e.g., Foster, 2009; Bilov´a, 2017). Contributing to this line of research, the present study reports on a classroom-based study conducted in three Speaking and Listen و...
This study aims to identify the use of and necessity for cognitively diagnostic assessments (CDAs) through the application of cognitive diagnostic models (CDMs), and to highlight the various issues involved in their development. In contrast to traditional test theories, i.e. item response theory or classical test theory, CDAs can provide valuable diagnostic information to guide و...
While there is consensus that bilingualism is conducive to cognitive advantage (Bialystok, 2009), the metaphorical competence of bilinguals, a possible indication of such an advantage in a content-embedded context, has received much less attention (de bot, 2017). The present study compared bilingual and monolingual EFL learners in terms of understanding figurative meaning. We a و...
The purpose of this study was to examine the use of Flipped Classroom Instruction (FCI) on Iranian EFL learners’ writing skills. Participants included 80 students in Melal Bartar Language Institute, Urmia, Iran. Two sophomore writing classrooms were examined: one as a control group consisting of 40 students and the other as an experimental group consisting of 40 language learne و...
The role of translation history in deepening translation studies has been recognized long before, however, the methodology for researching history of translation is still open to question. Apparently, descriptive methods of researching translation history are being put into question and narrative methods which seek to reveal the underlying causal relations around translations a و...
Sylvia Plath has confessed that The Bell Jar is an autobiographical work which she wrote in order to get rid of the past. Plath’s narrator, Esther Greenwood, struggles with traumatic memories and psychological disorders, just like Plath herself. Plath writes about Esther’s numerous suicide attempts, hospitalizations, and therapy experiences in this work. Apart from getting prof و...
بررسی سنتهای ترجمه در کشورمان حاکی از آن است که همواره ترجمه در اعصار گوناگون به عنوان ابزاری برای انتقال مفاهیم موجود به (از) نظامهای ادبی یا اجتماعی مختلف بکاررفته است. مثلاً، نهضت ترجمۀ ترکی در عصر تیموریان با ترجمۀ گستردۀ آثار ادبی فارسی به زبان ترکی چغتای باعث اعتلاء این زبان به زبانی بهرهمند از آرایههای ادبی و صور خیال شد. قرنها بعد، در عصر ناصری، مشروطهطلبانی مانند و...
It is very essential to build the highest level of confidence in our students in order to maintain their motivation and activeness in our classes and make them relax and confident to use and speak English without being scared; Even if they make a lot of mistakes, we as teachers shouldn’t correct all of their mistakes and we need to keep them active and motivated by giving them و...
This study identified a gap in the literature between reading strategy, self-efficacy, and reading comprehension ability. As such, the study aimed to examine whether Iranian EFL learners’ reading strategies and self-efficacy could predict their reading comprehension ability. A sample of 172 intermediate Iranian EFL learners (90 females and 82 males) took part in the study. Self و...
Translation quality is regarded as a critical issue for instructors, and translator trainers. They try to increase the quality through various methods including improving translation teaching methods. Translation teaching either at universities or institutes can be improved through the application of modern, and efficient teaching methods. The neighboring discipline (TEFL) is a و...
ABSTRACT As proposed by the widely held Comprehensible Input Hypothesis, it is often believed that learning is to happen automatically if the input provided by the more proficient interlocutor is comprehensible to the learner. However, Schmidt s (1990) Noticing Hypothesis suggests that new forms will not be learned if they are not actively noticed by the learner. Furthermore و...
Following the publication of Edward Said`s Orientalism (1978) and his argument about the discursive construction of the Orient in Western writing, critical research on travel books has flourished in recent decades. It has questioned and at times even refuted the truth value of travel books as presenting travellers’ eye-witness accounts of the traversed country. Even though repr و...
Elites may use specific terms in policy or media discourse in order to influence public opinion. In the same vein, the translators intervention, subjective evaluation , and discovery of those features, in practice, are critical for a translator. This study attempts to investigate the linguistic signs of a translator’s intervention, subjective evaluation , and to discover those و...
Teaching higher education in English medium of instruction (EMI) is controversial debate in non-English countries in Asian counties specially Iran. some policy makers believes that implementing EMI in universities for the majors which are not related to language and language learning poses some critical problems of cultural identity for students as it causes students become mor و...
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Planning is among the processes involved in performing an oral task (Ellis, 2003). It has been viewed as a crucial element in the process of SLA. According to Ellis (2005) there are two major types of task planning: pre-task and online. Pre-task planning takes place before performing the actual task (Ellis, 2005). Online planning on the other hand, occurs during the time the ta و...
The aim of this study was to explore the impact of Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ gender and age on their willingness to communicate (WTC), risk-taking, and perfectionism. To achieve this purpose 123 students from nine institutes were selected. To assess their WTC, risk taking, and perfectionism, three scales were employed; Ahwaz Perfectionism Scale( APS) و...
Translation is a quintessential act of cultural brokerage in the context of cross-cultural communication through furthering the cause of cross-cultural encounter and hence keeps its top spot as a buffer against intercultural conflict. It is then intuitively obvious that a translator as a cultural mediator sits comfortably between disparate cultures, albeit not as a conduit thro و...
Assessment literacy has been considered as one of the fundamental aspects of teacher education programs. Therefore, over the past decades, a plethora of studies have been developed to realize the essence of teacher assessment literacy and practice. This qualitative study, through a phenomenological approach, aimed to interpret the essence of teachers’ assessment literacy throug و...
Collocations as an important phenomenon in language and literatures have been studied inclusively in different languages. In Persian, as other languages, there are many fixed and identifiable constructions and phrases called “collocation”. Collocations fall in two major groups called lexical collocations and grammatical collocations. This paper as a descriptive study seeks to e و...
The present survey was an attempt to reveal a possible relationship between EFL (English as a foreign language) teachers’ spiritual intelligence scores and their level of autonomy in teaching. For this goal, two questionnaires, the Spiritual Intelligence Self-Report Inventory (SIRI-24) (King, 2008), and the Teacher Autonomy Scale (TAS) developed by Çolak (2016) were distributed و...
Subtitling is a popular modality of audiovisual translation. Yet, subtitles are constrained in time and space. This fact has influenced the strategies used for subtitling different language elements. There is a prosperous literature on subtitling strategies. Many studies have explored the techniques used for subtitling metaphors. However, few researchers have focused on lexical و...
The present corpus-based study is an attempt to explore the semantic analysis of take off, bring up, look up and point out as the most frequent common phrasal verbs used differently in the Iranian EFL learners writings in comparison with those of the native speakers. To this end, two corpora were used: Persian Gulf University Learner Corpus (PerGulc) and The Louvain Corpus of N و...
The new curriculum at Iran’s most important teacher education university (Farhangian University) contains a practicum program for prospective English teachers extended over 4 semesters. As innovation is among the most important objectives of any educational system and program in 21st century, the present study aims at evaluating how innovation is taken into account in this prac و...
The present study is a dialectical exploration of ‘empathy’ in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Third and Final Continent”, by concentrating on the translational significance this notion has in the process of subject formation. The central questions of this research are: What are the translational purposes that empathy serve once it is reworked through Lahiri’s short narrative? And what ar و...
از نظر گرایسی ها دو ایده متفاوت در مقابله با اختلاف معنای صوری و معنای طبیعی یا کاربردشناختی وجود دارد. اولین ایده استفاده از تضمن قراردادی و دومین ایده استفاده از تضمن مکالمه ای است. یکی از عناصر زبانی که در معنای صوری و معنای مورد نظر گوینده مورد بحث است، صفت است بدین جهت در این مقاله این سوال ها مطرح میشود که چگونه می توان صفات زبان فارسی را صوری سازی کرد تا به معنای مورد نظ و...
The most important purpose of the present study was to examine teachers’ strategies in invoking silent students to speak. The study investigated Iranian teachers’ classroom practice, reaction and beliefs, and eventually differences in usage of strategies. The study benefited from the contribution of 47 members; 15 teachers and 32 EFL silent learners both male and female partici و...
Materials development is a laborious undertaking. There are processes of analyzing needs, planning courses, developing frameworks, and choosing the course content and presenting it in an appropriate manner. Based on insights from critical needs analysis (Benesch, 1996), the present exploratory study examined 220 learners’ challenging priorities in Iranian English for Academic P و...
هدف از پژوهش کنونی بررسی راهبردهای ترجمه افعال نقل قول گر به فارسی در چارچوب رهیافت معنا شناسی قالبی است. بدین منظور در گام اول کل 354 نقل قول گر موجود در متن انگلیسی رمان دل تاریکی استخراج و مطابق فهرست قالبی جسی سمز (2009) با انواع نقل قول گرهای مورد استفاده در برگردان فارسی اثر توسط صالح حسینی مورد بررسی تطبیقی قرار گرفت. یافته ها علاوه بر بسامد بسیار بالای قالب های ارتباط ب و...
Since needs analysis firstly introduced by Munby s communicative syllabus design in 1978, many researchers carried out on the needs analysis of university students studying different courses in order to prepare for their target language needs. The aim of this study was to investigate Iranian law students EAP needs with a closer look at teachers and lawyers perspective. 10 EAP p و...
In recent years successful mastery of spoken language has gained more attention. It has been spotted that communicatively competent individuals are not necessarily willing to communicate in target language. Studies have shown that learning linguistic aspect of a target language cannot successfully engage learners in communication in real-life situations. To achieve such a goal, و...
The need to incorporate Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) in the language curriculum is increasingly acknowledged in the documents hoping to help students develop skills which will permit them to be adaptable communicators. However, the recommendations are mostly general and do not offer detailed directions for teachers. Consequently, the questions regarding material و...
The Effect of Explicit Teaching of Derivational Morphemes on Iranian EFL Learners’ Writing Fluency Abdurrashid Khazaei Feizabad1; Maziar Mirzaei Omrani 2 1. Assistant Professor of TEFL, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences and Genetics of Non-Communicable Disease Research Centre, Zahedan; Email: arkhazaei@yahoo.com 2. M.A. in TEFL. Islamic Azad university of Zahedan; Em و...
Transitioning smoothly from traditional learning of language, memorization and rote learning, implemented in teacher-centered classrooms to independent learning in learning- and learner-centered classroom and along with it, moving from teacher-assessment paradigm to self-assessment one faces teachers with a dilemma of deciding on learners’ final improvement and learning. Given و...
Abstract The present study aimed to compare ‘Right Path to English’ and ‘Prospect 1’ series based on the Iranian Teachers’ attitudes. To this end, the researchers modified the book evaluation checklist developed by Abdel Wahab (2013) and employed it as the instrument of the study. The questionnaire was administered to fifty Iranian language teachers from two provinces (Fars a و...
Taken insights from personality trait theories, this study tested a theoretical causal model positing English language teacher beliefs in efficacy and emotional intelligence as two key antecedents of negative emotion at work (or teacher burnout) and that efficacy beliefs trait mediates the relationship between emotional intelligence, a trait associated with positive affect, and و...
This paper aims at finding register shifts (Halliday & Hassan, 1976: 22) between source texts (English anti-Iranian movies) and target texts ( the subtitled versions of the original movies in Persian) in terms of anti-Iranian discourse. The paper’s main question is what attitudinal shifts have been made by the translators in subtitling anti-Iranian discourse in three movies: 30 و...
Aimed at identifying and categorizing the reasons behind dropout factors among English students, the present research was projected in a less privileged area. Initially, drawing on an existing questionnaire developed and validated by Javan and Modarresi (2018) titled ‘Foreign Language Learners’ Dropout’ (FLLD), the researchers made an attempt to adjust some existing factors, wh و...
Training professionally developed language teachers has always been one of the main concerns of teacher training centers as well as language teacher programs. Teacher education is an on-going process which enhances and consolidates teachers’ pedagogic knowledge, expertise, skills and efficiency in both teaching and classroom management leading to smooth learning as well as stud و...
Background and Objectives: English for medical purposes (EMP) seems to have succeeded in providing language expertise for both medical students and practitioners. The patterns of flourishing this discipline with its specific audience is not carefully studied. Therefore, the present study used scientometric and word co-occurrence analysis to identify the most important topics an و...
Electronic literature holds a controversial yet fascinating place in contemporary literary studies. With the advent of digital technologies and the cultural shifts this has brought about, literature too has faced new possibilities. One of the novel potentials offered by the encounter between literature and the digital world is the innovative handling of the point of view and na و...
Abstract Since the study of translation ethics is an important perspective in translation studies, the present paper attempts to conduct a research in this regard. The framework chosen for this research is the models for translation ethics proposed by Chesterman (2001). He, Chesterman (2001), introduces five kinds of ethical patterns of translation: ethics of representation, e و...
With regard to abundant research and debates on inclusive education, seeking for the development and educational growth of disabled learners and their abled peers seems to be an unfinished project, a story looking for an ending that would never arrive. Including learners with disabilities in regular classes has been a growing concern over the past years and the proclaimed princ و...
Teachers’ cognitions such as their attitudes, beliefs, perceptions, and practices are believed to be the key and effective factors on how they teach. Although there has been a great deal of research on what language teachers think, believe, and know about their teaching (Borg, 2003), there are few studies considering the correlation of the above-mentioned issue and intercultura و...
The purpose was to discover the students’ attitudes on the aspects of the teaching methodology employed in academic English writing instruction including comparisons/contrasts between some aspects of phrases and clauses in English and Persian grammar which was finally led to an innovative technique in Persian-English translation of scientific texts. A qualitative study was و...
مقاله ی حاضر پژوهشی است درباره ی بررسی ترجمه ی باهم آیی های خاص زبان فارسی به عبارتی دو قلوهای زبان فارسی که در گفتار و نوشتار روزمره، رمان ها و مجلات کاربرد فراوان دارند. بررسی معادل های انگلیسی دوقلوهای زبان فارسی برای دانشجویان، اساتید، مترجمین و فرهنگ نویسان نتایج سودمندی را به دنبال خواهد داشت چرا که ترجمه ی باهم آیی ها همواره مسئله ای مشکل ساز در ترجمه بوده است. در اولین و...
Despite the fact that English Translation major has been taught at Iranian universities for many years, graduates (professionals-to-be) do not seem to have enough certain professional competences required to enter the labor market as professional translators. Considering this, the present study aimed at evaluating the B.A English Translation curriculum and determining whether i و...
This study provides field research evidence on the efficiency of a "Student-selected" peer review assignment protocol as compared to the typically implemented "Teacher-Assigned-Pair" protocol in doing some lexical and grammatical language related episodes(LREs) . The study employed 60 undergraduate Medical students attending a general English course at Lorestan University of Me و...
This essay renders a thematic study of Frederik Pohl s SF novel titled The Coming of Quantum Cats. In this regard, parallel worlds and the uncertainty principle, and the application of quantum theory by the author stand out as the dominant elements in the novel. The Coming of Quantum Cats makes benefit of techniques such as the creation of different versions of biologically ide و...
Since its publication, Don DeLillo’s White Noise has been a focal point of literary analysis as one of the best examples of postmodern texts. The novel has received numerous analyses, most of which make an effort to decode the postmodern meaning lurking behind the different behaviors of characters within the novel. However, little attention has been paid to the question of why و...
Severity Differences across Proficiency Levels among Peer-assessors Shahla Rasouli1; Aso Piri2 1 English Instructor at Payam Nour University, Saghez, Iran;shsh1913@yahoo.com 2 MA in English Language Teaching;aso_piri@yahoo.com Abstract Over the past few years, peer-assessment, as an alternative assessment procedure, has drawn the attention of many researchers. In the و...
Assessment literacy is an almost newly concept which is dealt with in the language assessment domain and needs much more research studies to reach a better understanding of the issue. The present study was an attempt to illuminate native and non-native English teachers’ perspectives about assessment literacy. It also aims to seek whether there is any relationship between native و...
The main purpose of the present study is to examine the way reference as a cohesive device, having the subcategories of anaphora, cataphora and exophora, is used in the abstract section of academic research articles in soft vs. hard sciences. The texts of the study were randomly selected from research articles in a soft science (ELT) and a hard science (chemistry). Each group o و...
The surge of studies examining the impact of different types of planning, with some exceptions (e.g. Ortega 1999, 2005), has been predominantly obsessed with a specific focus on three aspects of the planned speech namely complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF). The results have mostly come down to existence of a competition between the goals of CAF, and been discussed in the li و...
International news coverage by media is mediated through translation. Still, based on Mona Baker’s (2006) Narrativity Theory, every translation is considered to be a re-narration and reconstruction of reality. Among the major international news stories, both positive and negative re-narrations of which could affect the international position and interests of Iranians, are the c و...
The present study aimed to explore EFL teachers’ cognition as to the criteria for the evaluation of ELT textbooks. Participants were 12 Iranian EFL teachers: seven females and five males. Their teaching experience ranged from one to 15 years and their age ranged from 20 to 33. The participants were selected through purposeful sampling and then were categorized into three focus و...
In verbal communication, language can not be precise all the time because speaking has different factors. Some of the circumstances do not need argument; on the contrary they need soft communication to keep the relationship. That is the reason speakers use language to soften their commitment (Hyland, 1996).Hedging can be regarded a pragmatic device and often multifunctional. Th و...
Knowledge and Practice of Critical Pedagogy among Iranians EFL Teachers Zia Tajeddin Professor of Applied Linguistics, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran Farkhonde Karami Ph.D. Candidate of TEFL, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Iran Abstract Critical pedagogy (CP) is based on the assumptions that every society should provide equal opportunities for its members. With the de و...
Much has been written on the improvements, innovations, applications, and importance of Educational Technologies (ETs) in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT) during the last decade. Hence, the present study aimed at scrutinizing and reviewing the published research articles in the journal of Computer & Education between the years of 2015-2019 to see how the use of ETs و...
News, as one of the most pervasive tools in the world, is very significant for political organisations, institutions, and even governments to effect social thought. However, translation to bring different ideas in line with a united policy, perform as a complement for news to dictate a predefined ideology and poetics between people. In other words, translation is a useful alter و...
Signature pedagogies in the professions are considering teacher-educators with teacher and teaching education context (Shulman, 2005). The primary purpose of this paper is to represent distinguished features of signature pedagogy for teachers’ continuous professional development. Several papers deeply analyzed to achieve clear outcome. Signature pedagogy includes several notion و...
The abstract section is well-accepted as a very vital part of any academic writing which is read more frequently than any other parts of the paper. Moreover, the abstract has a determinative role for readers to see whether they wish to read the rest of the paper or not. Metadiscourse markers are used as a tool to make the abstract section look more effective and coherent. This و...
Different subjects of Quranic sciences, interpretations, and translations, and various topics of Quranic teachings have been growing in the history of Islam and the world. In recent years, the wide-ranging approach of scholarly and academic circles to Quranic studies, linguistic studies, and translation and interpretation in various levels and layers of the community has been a و...
Writing is a language ability which has been deemphasized in EFL context due to many reasons such as its time-consuming nature. With the emergence of sociocultural theory in EFL context, the idea of Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) has recently captured EFL teachers and researchers attention. ZPD, as Vygotsky (1978) stated is "a distance between what a child can do with enoug و...
Restricting its focus to the introduction of technology and its general applications and treating technology merely as an adds-on to teacher education, second and foreign language teaching profession—especially in Iran— has not yet adequately addressed the demands of language teachers for technology-enhanced language instruction. In addition to the common focus on technology pe و...
Abstract Humor is considered as one of the most challenging areas in Translation Studies. Linguistic and cultural differences between two languages are the sources of problems during translation process. When the source humor is embedded in an audiovisual product such as an animation, translation becomes even more challenging because humor in such products is reflected through و...
The present study investigated the effectiveness of input-based vs. output-based practice on acquisition of obligatory null objects in English complex infinitival structures. The participants were fifty seven Persian learners, divided into three groups (input-based, output-based and control), who received explicit instruction and task based practice for three weeks. Analysis of و...
Abstract English is learned as a foreign language in Iran and vocabulary is one of the vital and also complex part of language. The aim of this research was to investigate the effect of using songs to teach vocabulary, for Iranian students learning English as foreign language. The participants were from ACECR institute in Yazd. The selected participants passed their five le و...
For over two decades, the contexts of second and foreign language acquisition have witnessed debates over the effectiveness of corrective feedback (CF) also known as ‘grammar correction’ on writing accuracy (Ferris, 1999; Truscott, 1996). More recent research has widened this scope to include a focus on fluency and content-focused CF (e.g., Ene & Upton, 2018; Goldstein, 2016). و...
This study aimed to investigate online students’ and instructors’ perceptions of the influential factors, including motivation, e-readiness, and barriers for online satisfaction and to determine the contribution of these factors to satisfaction. The participants of this study were 114 online graduate students of TEFL and five online instructors at Iran University of Science and و...
Employing an explanatory sequential design, this study investigated the effects of a blog-mediated writing course on the students’ writing motivation, self-efficacy, and self-regulation. A number of 46 Iranian English-as-a-foreign language (EFL) learners from two intact university classes were recruited as the participants and were randomly assigned to the Control Group (N = 21 و...
The present paper tries to look at Masoomeh Abad’s I’m Alive in light of the theories of displacement, performance and resistance. According to the theories of displacement, a person going through forced displacement faces two paths: either to put what she was aside and take up what is forced on her or to resist and be what she wants. Abad, who has been a prisoner of war for fo و...
There is a niche in contemporary Irish literature which portrays twentieth century diasporic Irish identity, in particular, that of the female. This literature points to the heterogeneous and contradictory constitution of the image of the Irish woman migrant in modern Irish narratives, an image which oscillates between the poles of conservativism and docility, on the one hand, و...
In contemporary era, societies have improved their interactions, in such a way that they have globally shared their research and achievements, most often through the English language. Accordingly, translation of the selected texts can be used to ease the comprehension and enhance the utility. For this, the translated version must be comprehensible and coherent. It must transfer و...
Tom Stoppard, the British contemporary playwright, is regarded as a writer whose texts reveal a confusion of time and as such his plays have been analyzed with regard to historicity and the way he glances at historical past or with regard to chaos theory. This research intends to investigate temporal concept in his play, Travesties, in order to know the intended meaning out of و...
The main aim of this study is to shine light on efficacy of mobile devices in translation classes through an examination of both learners and instructors’ point of view and the applications used by the learners and those encouraged by the instructors. To conduct the study, a sample of 125 undergraduate students majoring in English Translation was asked to fill out two questionn و...
In the field of applied linguistics (AP), similar to other scientific disciplines, diverse issues have gained popularity on different time spans. Therefore, knowing the key popular themes of the field for the researchers and the students sounds to be beneficial. The present study aims to identify the key current themes in AP research. To this end, the novel approach of topic mo و...
Although research studies on testing issues of English for General Purposes are abundant in the literature, they are still one of the less explored areas of research in English for Academic Purposes, especially with respect to teachers’ (language teacher and content teacher) assessment knowledge and beliefs. The present study intends to examine the ESP tests in terms of validit و...
Although the established literature demonstrates the usefulness of motivation in English language learning (e.g., Dörnyei & Ushioda, 2011), current one-layered quantitative studies have hardly created a robust understanding of what issues threaten Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ motivational development. In this article we considered issues that pose poten و...
The attitude of young EFL learners toward modern technological assessment in schools Tahere Akhoundi Shabestari 1; Mahdiye Afrasiabi 2; 1 Master student in TEFL, University of Tehran; Email: t.akhoundi@ut.ac.ir 2 Master student in TEFL, University of Tehran; Email: m.afrasiyabi@ut.ac.ir Abstract Assessment is an integral part of instruction, as it determines wh و...
Abstract This study aimed to investigate Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) use at high school curriculum specially language learning. Through this study, the power of the attitude towards predicting CALL use in high school curriculum was revealed. CALL was defined quantitatively based on new defined scale for it as dependent variable in this study. In order to reach t و...
A Corpus-based Lexical Study of Iranian Medical Research Articles: Developing a Medical Academic Word List Samane Iravani Tehrani1 ; Fatemeh Ranjbaran2 ----- 1MA student of English Language Teaching, Islamic Azad University, West Tehran Branch, Faculty of Humanities; s_tehrani1362@yahoo.com 2 PhD in Applied Linguistics, School of Health Management and Information و...
The present paper deals with providing a scat review of Naturalistic/Instructed Second Language Acquisition, Theories and Factors Affecting SLA. This article introduce second language acquisition (SLA) as a scientific discipline studying how human beings obtain a second language. The term ‘second language acquisition’ alludes to the learning of a language which is nonnative aft و...
Alliteration is perceived as a repetition of the same sound, mostly the initial consonants in a sequence of words (Onič, 2006). The present study aims at analyzing the use of alliteration in order to develop the main character in the movie, V for Vendetta, and its Persian subtitles. The corpus of the study consists of 5 different Persian subtitles of the movie and a two-minute و...
Knowledge of L2 affixes exerts a significant influence over learning the words in that target language as claimed by many studies; however, the well-designed empirical studies are limited and most claims have just remained at the realm of theoretical speculations. Moreover, the earlier studies have not used comprehensive corpus-driven instruments for gaging the knowledge of eit و...
Abstract Through collaboration dialogue, individuals are responsible for their learning, the abilities and contributions of their peers. This study investigated the impact of the modality of collaborative dialogue on Iranian intermediate EFL learners̕ grammatical proficiency. Participants of this study were 60 Iranian intermediate EFL learners enrolled in an English class in A و...
This article focuses on the validity of the historical facts in The Mirage (2012), a novel written by Matt Ruff, in an attempt to answer whether historical records and facts are reliable or not. To this end, two major themes of “simulacra and simulation” are examined through the perspective of Baudrillard and his models of “real.” It is argued since media play an important role و...
Abstract Media as one of the most influential forms of communication in the current era has become the subject of intense, often polarizing, debate. It appears far from a monolithic innocuously straightforward phenomenon encompassing a myriad of academic, literary, artistic disciplines and scientific approaches. Historically known as a holistic approach dealing with humanity و...
Nowadays news media have a great influence on people s thoughts in different societies. This is rooted in the inextricable integration of power and media in these societies. In news media, this integration relies mainly on language. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) contributes to the exploration the linguistic elements constructing and disseminating the political orientations و...
در میان تمامی مباحث پیرامون رابطهمیان عکس و ادبیات، بحث روایت و پویش روایی در عکسها علی الخصوص مجموعه عکس بحث داغ میان محقیقن و منتقدین بوده است. در این میان مباحث بسیاری در رابطه با ارتباط و استنباط بیننده از عکس نیز مورد بررسی قرار گرفته اند. هدف از تالیف این مقاله در مرحلهی اول بررسی امکان استخراج روایات داستانی از دل عکسهای پرتره توسط مخاطب عکس و در مرحلهی دوم بررسی و...
Abstract Due to its interdisciplinary nature, the Translation Studies faces new conflicts such as the translation of audiovisual products. The ‘translation laws’ or ‘translation universals’ have become the starting point of much academic research in the field of Translation Studies. Translation scholars are still speculating whether translation universals exist and if so, w و...
Drawing on Post-colonial theories and humor theories, this study seeks to illuminate the latent aspects of the Iranian diaspora by means of scrutinizing a novel written by the Iranian-American Writer, Siamak Baniameri. In this novel, Baniameri has sought to unravel the Iranian experience as a diasporic community in this melting pot. Since Post-colonialism is a critical reading و...
The concept of time is of high importance in every aspect of education. With regards to translation and the requirements of keeping up with the fast business of translating texts in different languages, time finds a more prominent status. The present study aims at investigating the effect of time on the quality of translation. To this aim, a number of ten third-year translation و...
The phenomenon of retranslation has not remained unchanged and there are new aspects and variations coming into existence. Self-retranslation as a derivational form of retranslation deserves special attention. The present article addresses the first and second Persian translations of two English novels by the same Persian translator (Saleh Hosseini) over a decade. To this end, و...
Although the novel, The Feather, has become popular and well-known in different countries, especially Iran, Charlotte Mary Matheson’s works have not been known and worked on as much as other female English authors. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to study The Feather in the light of feminism and with regard to the ideas of a French philosopher, Emmanuel Levinas. One of the و...
The current study investigated the efficacy of the flipped learning model on the development of Iranian foreign language learners oral reproduction of short stories. To this end, 50 undergraduate English Language and Literature students at an Iranian state university participated in this study. After receiving the short stories along with additional explanations regarding the p و...
Audio description is a type of audiovisual translation that describes the images associated with different audiovisual products (e.g. cinema, theatre, and dance). It inserts descriptions of the images in the gaps left between dialogue and music in order to make these kinds of cultural products accessible for the visually impaired. The present study tried to delve into audio des و...
Given that affect is an indispensable ingredient of communication, the present study investigates whether affective meaning could be a factor that may modulate the degree of language processing in bilinguals. The participants were 28 Persian-English bilinguals (17 female and 11 male) who were studying at the Department of English Language Teaching of the University of Gonabad. و...
Cognitive complexity is traditionally used for describing human cognition along a simplicity-complexity axis in tests like TOFEL IBT and GRE where text creation and rhetorical organization are quintessentially important. Accordingly, this study sought to investigate the impact of mentor text modelling on cognitive complexity of academic writing tasks in terms of students’ respo و...
Dynamic Assessment (DA) is an orientation toward measuring learners’ achievements through including mediation into the assessment process and attempts to integrate learning and appraising. Various models of DA have been utilized in second language acquisition and have proved their significant contribution; however, there is a paucity of research regarding their implementation f و...
Gertrude Lowthian Bell, known as the uncrowned queen of the desert and adviser to the kings, was a prominent Orientalist, traveller, archaeologist, and adventurer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century at the zenith of British imperialism. Her life and works have been the subject of several studies in the recent decades following the publication of Edward Said’s gro و...
The present study seeks to scrutinize J.M.Coutzee s novel Foe in the light of Homi Bhabha s key concepts delivered in his landmark book, The location of Culture. The novel recounts the story of a castaway mother who incessantly looks for her girl. Foe s focus on nature, narrative and imagination on the question of who will remain silent are thoughtful responses to the questions و...
Contrastive rhetoric holds that the people in different cultures organize their ideas in different ways. However, the research areas of CR have mostly provided us with descriptions of rhetorical styles and their characteristics at the surface level or in other words it generally focuses on a text analysis of product ignoring the process. It has not offered the users of this fie و...
Isolated Focus on Form Instruction (FFI), introduced by Spada and Lightbown (2008), is divided into two forms: early and delayed FFI. The former offers explicit instruction before communicative practice tasks, while the latter provides it after the tasks. This study aimed to investigate whether sequential isolated (FFI) has variable effects on learning grammatical structures wi و...
The purpose of this mixed-methods research was to compare abstracts published by Iranian non-Native university professors of Applied Linguistics with abstracts written by their renowned English Native counterparts. The main objective was to probe whether or not Iranian academic writers have reached a Native-like level of proficiency in their EAP writing. This study had sixty-th و...
Assessment is an integral part of all forms of learning This study was conducted to examine the effect of formative and summative assessment on the Iranian EFL learners essay writing .. current study is intended to study the impact of formative and summative assessments on final examinations in concern subject at the end of year. A quasi experimental study was conducted of Isla و...
Language, through providing vocabulary for ideological terms, and via channeling ideology in discourse, links with ideology. The present study aimed to investigate the microstructures and macrostructures in the tweets posted by the US president Donald Trump and Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif. To this aim, in a descriptive-qualitative design, a number of 200 twee و...
Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; 10 June 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-American writer. He is best known for his novels specially Dangling Man. Saul Bellow tried to convey the unique otherness of human beings. Dangling Man can be seen as a superfluous man narrative, in which other and face of the other represent the responsibility and the conflict that the hero of the n و...