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نمایش ۸۰۱ تا ۸۲۰ مورد از کل ۱۰٬۳۰۳ مورد.
منبع:
Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Translation Studies, Vol. ۸, No. ۳, Summer ۲۰۲۳
39 - 60
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Online learning has recently turned to one of the most well-known channels of education; however, the controversy over the quality and outcome of such online medium is still a concern. This study sought to determine the pros and cons of online courses as perceived by Iranian language teachers and learners. Two tailor-made questionnaires, along with a semi-structured interview, were used to collect the data. The participants were 71 college students who have experienced online educations and 31 language teachers who taught web-based classes in the Department of English Language Education at three universities in Iran, Isfahan, Sheikhbahaee, and Ashrafi. An overall analysis of questionnaires and interviews revealed that students and teachers could not find online education easier than its conventional counterpart. Online education provides teachers with a precise image of applying the appropriate teaching methodology in their online classes as well as enhancing their autonomy. The research recapped that online educators and administrators of faculties ought to lay the foundations for making the benefits of online education bold for learners. The findings may be a contributing factor for teacher educators to create the climate for professional development.
Professional Identity and Practice of Iranian EFL Teacherpreneurs in Virtual Affinity Spaces: A Qualitative Study
منبع:
Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Translation Studies, Vol. ۸, No. ۳, Summer ۲۰۲۳
85 - 110
حوزههای تخصصی:
As the demand for online language education continues to grow, English teacherpreneurs play a significant role in shaping teaching practice and identity in virtual affinity spaces. This study examined the professional identity and practice of Iranian EFL teacherpreneurs in such spaces. The study adopted a qualitative approach and the data were collected through in-depth interviews and a focus group discussion. The findings of this research indicated that the participants as Iranian EFL teacherpreneurs in online affinity spaces possessed a wide range of positive traits and engaged in interactive and non-traditional teaching practices going beyond EFL traditional teaching practices. They also noted challenges being online English teacherpreneurs in Iran, highlighting a lack of financial support from mainstream education system and insufficient electronic facilities to create online content among others. This study has implications for different agencies in language teaching, including teachers and policy-makers in language education, raising their awareness regarding the identity and practice of online teacherpreneurs in virtual affinity spaces.
Exploring retrospective/prospective patterns in MICUSP: A comparative study of English as a first language and English as an additional language(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)
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English as a First Language (EFL) and English as an Additional Language (The results indicated that both EFL and EAL students used a diverse array of linguistic features to express their ideas in academic prose, with the prospective categories being the most commonly used.
Using Critical Discourse Analysis to Explore Authentic Research Article: A Focus on Practical Argumentation Theory(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)
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As a dominant genre of academic writing, research papers can be considered as the locus of reproduction concerning asymmetrical power relations and dominance. Through a purposive sampling consisting of the analysis and evaluation of an argument, the purpose of this study was to divulge the power and ideology latent in the discussion section of the research articles to raise second language learners’ awareness of the epistemological foundations and methodological goals and values of the ideologies behind the texts as social structures. By using a practical reasoning framework as an evaluative tool to analyze a text presented in the discussion part of arguments published in research articles, the analysis revealed that the scientific viewpoints exhibit themselves as the premises of these arguments. These world views maintain the dominance of the papers on global academic and social discourses. Understanding the ideological purpose of the article genre is crucial for promoting democratic and equitable education. This assertion highlights the importance of recognizing this function.
مقایسه گفتمان سالمندان مبتلا به آلزایمر و سالمندان طبیعی فارسی زبان از منظر زبانی و کاربردشناختی(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)
منبع:
زبان پژوهی سال پانزدهم پاییز ۱۴۰۲ شماره ۴۸
253 - 287
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پژوهش حاضر به دنبال مقایسه گفتمان سالمندان فارسی زبان طبیعی و مبتلا به آلزایمر فارسی زبان (در مراحل آغازین و میانی ابتلا) در سطح های زبانی و کاربردشناختی بوده است. این مقاله، پژوهشی ترکیبی بود. بخش کیفیِ مطالعه، شاملِ بررسی پرونده پزشکی بیماران، فارسی سازی آزمون های بازگویی داستان کوتاه، ضرب المثل، داستان سازی تصویر و دزدی کلوچه بود. بخش کمّی پژوهش نیز شامل اجرای آزمون های یادشده به روش شبه آزمایشی بود. به این منظور، توانایی 31 سالمند فارسی زبان مبتلا به بیماری آلزایمر در مرحله های آغازین و میانی بیماری با 31 سالمند فارسی زبان طبیعی از جنبه سطح های زبانی و کاربردشناختی مقایسه شدند. همگی این افراد تک زبانه بوده و به شیوه نمونه گیری در دسترس انتخاب شده بودند. ابزارِ این پژوهش، شکل فارسی سازی شده آزمون های دزدی کلوچه، داستان سازی تصویر و ضرب المثل و نیز آزمون های بازگویی داستان کوتاه و گزینش اجباری بودند. داده ها با آمار توصیفی خلاصه شدند. همچنین، پس از تأیید طبیعی بودن توزیع داده ها توسط آزمون شاپیروویلک، با آزمون تحلیل واریانس اندازه گیری مکرر تحلیل شدند. یافته ها نشان داد بین عملکرد سالمندان بیمار مبتلا به آلزایمر و سالمندان طبیعی در سطح زبانی (شامل خطاهای دستوری، ساختاری و معنایی) و کاربردشناختی (استنباط و توانایی تشخیص تکلیف) تفاوت معناداری وجود دارد، و سالمندان مبتلا به آلزایمر عملکرد ضعیف تری داشتند. همچنین یافته های این پژوهش نشان داد که مهارت های بیانی در مراحل آغازین و میانی بیماری کمتر از مهارت های ادراکی دچار اختلال می گردد. درباره پیامدهای این یافته ها بحث می شود.
Exploring Iranian ESP Teachers’ Assessment Practices in Online Specialized English Courses
حوزههای تخصصی:
As an integral dimension of instruction, assessment determines whether or not the educational goals are being fulfilled. The present study was an attempt to investigate Iranian ESP instructors’ common classroom assessment practices. To this end, based on convenience sampling, eight different ESP teachers teaching BA students from a variety of departments at Rasht Islamic Azad University, Iran were selected. An observation checklist containing 31 items was used as the only data-gathering instrument of this study. The results of the descriptive statistics revealed that some assessment practices including using portfolio to assess student progress, assessing group class participation, conducting item analysis for teacher-made tests, and writing matching questions were applied less frequently in the ESP classes. However, some assessment practices such as incorporating attendance in the calculation of grades and recognizing unethical, illegal, or inappropriate uses of assessment information were more likely to be used in the observed ESP classes. The instructors were also more likely to incorporate classroom behavior in the calculation of grades, incorporate extra credit activities in the calculation of grades, recognize unethical, illegal, or inappropriate assessment methods, and inform students how grades are to be assigned. It is concluded that ESP teachers utilize both traditional testing and alternative assessment for achieving a complementary process of assessment, and they call for an integration of them due to their importance in assessing both the process and product of learning. The results of this study may hopefully be beneficial for curriculum developers, materials developers, course and syllabus designers, teachers and teacher trainers, and the other stakeholders in the fields of language teaching and learning as well.
بررسی نقش های «که» در بندهای موصولی: رویکردی رده شناختی(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)
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چکیده "که" از پر کاربردترین تکواژها در نظام گفتاری و نوشتاری زبان فارسی است که علاوه بر کاربردهای گسترده ای چون ضمیر مبهم، متمم نما، نشانه تأکید و...به عنوان موصول نما در ابتدای بندهای موصولی بدون تغییر شکل حضور یافته و نقش های متفاوتی را پذیرا می باشد. هدف اصلی این جستار مطالعه نقش های دستوری، معنایی و کاربردشناختی تکواژ "که" در بندهای موصولی زبان فارسی می باشد. لذا برای ارائه توصیفی تا حدامکان کامل از تکواژ "که" بررسی دقیق مجموعه ای از شواهد طبیعیِ کاربردِ این پدیده در زبان فارسی ضروری است. ازاین رو برای کارآمدی این تحقیق، داده ها از جملات طبیعی گفتاری و نوشتاری گویشوران زبان فارسی جمع آوری شده اند. سپس تکواژ "که"در بند های موصولی بر اساس نقش های دستوری و معنایی و نیز کاربرد شناختی مورد بررسی قرار گرفتند. در این پژوهش که مبتنی بر تحقیق توصیفی و تحلیلی می باشد تلاش بر این است تا در چارچوب نظریه رده شناختی با تکیه بر تعمیم های رده شناختی کمری (1989) به این پرسش ها پاسخ داده شود که در بندهای موصولی زبان فارسی تکواژ "که" کدام نقش های دستوری،معنایی و کاربردشناختی را به عهده دارد؟در فرض اصلی تمام نقش های دستوری یک گروه اسمی برای "که" در نظر گرفته شده اند. یافته های این پژوهش حاکی از آن است که تکواژ "که" تمام نقش های دستوری یک گروه اسمی مانند: فاعل، مفعول...را دریافت می نماید. این تکواژ نقش های معنایی متنوعی را چون کنشگر،کنش پذیر،هدف... پذیرا می باشد. همچنین "که" به عنوان نشانگر تأکید پس از هر سازه ای که هم دارای اطلاع کهنه و هم اطلاع نو باشد قرار گرفته و آن را مورد تأکید قرار می دهد. کلید واژه ها: بند موصولی،موصول نما،نقش های معنایی،اطلاع نو،اطلاع کهنه
Development of EFL Teachers’ Digital Competence in the Adoption of Blended Learning(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)
حوزههای تخصصی:
The coronavirus pandemic affected education enormously, and despite numerous previous efforts to achieve digitalization, virtual teaching revealed deficiencies in both the EFL teachers’ digital competence and in the peripheral use of Information and communication technologies (ICTs). This study focused on a sample group to analyze the relationship between the implementation of this model and the pre-pandemic digital approach in order to identify deficiencies that need to be strengthened to achieve increasingly effective integration of blended learning. A questionnaire was used to collect data from participating teachers in the areas of school digital strategy, digital competence, and teaching practice in blended learning. The data were analyzed through structural equation models, verifying the relation between variables and also according to specific training on ICTs. An active but insufficient effort on the part of the participants’ schools to promote digitalization was revealed. The implementation of blended learning has been favored more by the responsiveness of participating EFL teachers than by the provision of specific training on the part of schools, which lacked common guidelines from the public administration. These EFL teachers can respond to changes, but the schools’ support is essential for the successful implementation of blended learning, updating the approach of the digital strategy adopted so far.
تقویت مهارت زبانی با به کارگیری ترجمه درآموزش تکلیف محور: نگارش داستان خبری در کانون بررسی(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)
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پژوهش حاضر به مسئله مقایسه تأثیر دو رویکرد آموزشی «تکلیف محور محض» و «تکلیف محور ترجمه یار» بر تقویت و ارتقای توانایی نگارش داستان خبری به زبان انگلیسی در زبان آموزان ایرانی می پردازد. شرکت کنندگان در این پژوهش ۸۲ دانشجوی ایرانی سال دوم کارشناسی رشته ترجمه انگلیسی در دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد همدان بودند. در راستای رسیدن به هدف پژوهشی مذکور، شرکت کنندگان در ابتدا به شیوه ای همگن به دو گروه گواه و آزمون تقسیم شدند. اگرچه هردو گروه از مداخله آموزشی تکلیف محور برپایه طرح سه مرحله ای پیشنهادی از سوی ویلیس (Willis, 1996) پیش از تکلیف، تکلیف اصلی، و پس از تکلیف به مدت شش هفته برخوردار شدند، تنها گروه آزمون یا گروه تکلیف محور ترجمه یار بود که در پایان مرحله سوم از کنش ترجمه بهره برد. با هدف آزمایش و سنجش دو گروه، آزمونی برای ارزش یابی توانایی نگارش داستان خبری پیش و پس از مداخله آموزشی تکلیف گرا به هردو گروه از شرکت کنندگان داده شد. نتایج این دو آزمون نشان داد که گروه آزمون یا همان گروه تکلیف محور ترجمه یار، در عملکرد نهایی خود از گروه گواه پیشی گرفت، که این خود گویای آنست که آموزش با رویکرد تکلیف محور ترجمه یار در نگارش داستان خبری در سنجش با رویکرد تکلیف محور محض توانسته است به گونه ای معنادار کارکرد کلی گروه آزمون و نیز برخی زیرمهارت های آن، ازجمله به کارگیری داده های پرسشی گزارشی، گزینش واژگان، هم بافت، یکپارچگی بافت، ساختار بافت و زبان ساده را بهبود ببخشد.
بدن انسان در امثال و تعبیرات: مطالعه ی تطبیقی فرانسه و فارسی(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)
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پژوهش حاضر به بررسی تطبیقی امثال و تعبیرات در دو زبان فرانسه و فارسی می پردازد. این شاخه از زبان شناسی کلیدواژگانی در حوزه های معنایی مختلف مانند گیاهان، جانوران، بدن انسان، رنگ ها، اعداد، طبیعت و غیره دارد. نگارندگان مقاله برای محدود تر کردن موضوع، اصطلاحات مربوط به بدن انسان را انتخاب و روی پنج عضو یعنی «سر، چشم، قلب، زبان، دست» مطالعه ای تطبیقی انجام داده اند تا پاسخی مناسب برای این پرسش ها بیابند: اصطلاحات فرانسه مورد نظر در زبان فارسی معادل دارند یا خیر؟ در صورت جواب مثبت، عضو به کار رفته در هر دو زبان یکی است یا فرق می کند؟ روش پژوهش تطبیقی تحلیلی با استناد به مطالعات زبان شناسان این حوزه است. در این راستا، علاوه بر بررسی اصطلاحات در این زمینه، به مواردی اشاره شده که در آن ها نام یک عضو بدن با عضو دیگری ترکیب و اصطلاح جدیدی را به وجود می آورد، یا با تکرار نام یک عضو اصطلاحی جدید ساخته شده و در بعضی موارد با ترکیب نام یک عضو بدن و یک صفت نوع دیگری از اصطلاح به وجود آمده است. همچنین نقش نمادین عضوهای به کار رفته در امثال و تعبیرات فرانسه و فارسی بسیار مشهود است. طبق نتایج پژوهش، در اغلب موارد، اصطلاحات فرانسه در زبان فارسی معادل دارند و در صورت نبود معادل، همان اصطلاحات به صورت جملات توضیحی در زبان ما رایج هستند. در معادل برخی اصطلاحات از عضو بدن به عنوان واژه کلیدی استفاده نمی شود و در برخی دیگر عضو به کار رفته در اصطلاح فرانسه با نام عضو دیگری در فارسی استفاده شده است.
گامی به سوی تدوین الگوی بومی آموزش در مناطق دو زبانه ایران(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)
منبع:
زبان و زبان شناسی دوره ۱۹ بهار و تابستان ۱۴۰۲ شماره ۳۷
19 - 54
حوزههای تخصصی:
این پژوهش با مرور نظام مند سیاست ها و برنامه های آموزشی برای مناطق دوزبانه 12 کشور دنیا و بررسی نتایج پژوهش هایی که به مشکلات آموزش کودکان دوزبانه ایرانی پرداخته اند، بر یکی از مهم ترین مسائل زبانی ایران یعنی برقراری عدالت آموزشی در مناطق دوزبانه و ارزیابی امکان طراحی الگویی بومی برای آموزش در این مناطق متمرکز است. با این هدف پرسش های پژوهش به این شرح اند: در کشورهای مورد بررسی چه سیاست آموزشی در مناطق دوزبانه به کار گرفته شده است؟ چه روش های آموزش دوزبانه ای در سطح جهانی رایج هستند؟ عملکرد تحصیلی دانش آموزان ایرانی در مناطق دوزبانه بر اساس پژوهش های انجام شده چگونه ارزیابی شده است؟ و در نهایت، چه ملاحظاتی را برای ارائه الگوی بومی آموزش مدرسه ای در مناطق دوزبانه ایران باید در نظر گرفت؟ بر اساس نتایج، ایجاد و حفظ حس تعلق ملی و دستیابی به عدالت آموزشی برای همه دانش آموزان، وضعیت اقتصادی و توزیع زبانی یک کشور از عوامل تأثیرگذار در انتخاب شیوه آموزش اند. در هیچ یک از کشورها سیاست زبانی واحدی در گستره زمان حاکم نبوده ولی سیاست آموزش تک زبانه در نواحی دورافتاده و چندزبانه غالباً با شکست مواجه شده است. پژوهش ها در ایران گویای آن است که عملکرد تحصیلی دانش آموزان دو یا چندزبانه ایرانی ضعیف تر از تک زبانه های فارسی زبان است که می تواند به ناکارامدی سیاست آموزشی فعلی در مناطق دوزبانه تعبیر شود. ویژگی های زبان اول دانش آموزان و تفاوت و شباهت آن با فارسی بر عملکرد آن ها تأثیر دارد. تأثیر مثبت دوره های پیش دبستانی بر عملکرد تحصیلی دانش آموزان مناطق دوزبانه در بسیاری از پژوهش ها تأیید شده است. در تدوین الگوی بومی آموزش لازم است به انواع الگوهای دوزبانه، ویژگی های زبانی و فرهنگی مناطق دوزبانه، روش های موفق اتخاذشده در کشورهای دیگر و آموزش نیروی متخصص مد نظر قرار گیرد.
Explicit Teaching of an Unsalient Property: the case of illicit resumptive pronouns in English relative clauses(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)
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The present study investigated the role of explicit instruction on the acquisition of English relative clauses by focusing on resumptive pronouns among Iranian learners of English at an intermediate level of proficiency. The study focused on two structurally different languages (Persian and English) regarding the use of resumptive pronouns. A grammaticality Judgment Test (GJT) and a Sentence Combination Task (SCT) at three phases of pre-test, immediate, and delayed posttests, have been used; paired samples t-tests showed that exposure to input through teaching materials can improve the learners’ performance in specific types of relative structures, but not in all. The findings propose that if language learners, especially in a foreign language context, are provided with enough input and still don’t acquire an uninterruptable feature (resumptive pronouns in this case), then it can be said that fossilization has occurred and the interpretability hypothesis (Tsimpli and Dimitrakopolou, 2007) will be confirmed. It also shows that explicit teaching can lead to future noticing in input and result in more stable acquisition.
Analyzing the Main EFL Learners' Writing Problems with Focus on Figurative Language: Metaphor and Metonymy Instruction(مقاله پژوهشی دانشگاه آزاد)
منبع:
international Journal of Foreign Language Teaching & Research, Volume ۱۱, Issue ۴۴, Spring ۲۰۲۳
69 - 80
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This study was an endeavor to explore the main sources of EFL learners' writing problems through dialogic interactions. It also investigated the effect of metaphor and metonymy on EFL learners' writing achievement. To achieve this end, the researcher adopted mixed-method research with a sample of intermediate language students from both genders. In the qualitative section, 20 EFL learners were selected through purposive sampling, and in the quantitative section, 120 language students were selected through convenience sampling from a university in Gorgan. Data were gathered through Quick Oxford Placement Test (OPT), writing tests, and a semi-structured interview. After recording and transcribing the interviews, the transcripts of the interviews were formatted using the software NVIVO 11 Pro®. With the help of this software, the textual data were reduced into some statements which could reflect the main ideas of the participants’ lived experiences without any intervention from the researcher. However, the data of the tests were inserted into SPSS software and the ANCOVA test was run to indicate differences between the three groups in terms of their writing improvement. The main results suggested that metaphor and metonymy through dialogic interactions had significant effects on the participations’ writing achievement. As well as that, findings from the analysis of data revealed the four main sources of writing problems as linguistic, personal, epistemological, and ecological.
Functions of Reporting Verbs in the Result and Discussion Section of Research Articles over Sciences(مقاله پژوهشی دانشگاه آزاد)
منبع:
international Journal of Foreign Language Teaching & Research, Volume ۱۱, Issue ۴۵, Summer ۲۰۲۳
53 - 69
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The interaction between the writers and the experts while using citations is one of the main features of academic texts. For the integration of external experts into the text, writers usually use reporting verbs, which seem to function differently. Furthermore, selecting reporting verbs (RVs) by the researchers of disciplines seems to vary. This paper explored the functions of RVs across sciences. To this end, 200 “Results and Discussion” section of RAs from the four sciences, namely Life Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities, Physical Sciences and Engineering, and Health Sciences were gathered and used as the data, and their functions of RVs were analyzed based on Hyland’s framework (2002). Hyland (2002) considered three basic RV types based on their function, including research, cognitive, and discourse acts, subsequently dividing each category into several subcategories. The results showed that the writers in Life Sciences used more research acts in comparison to the other disciplines. In terms of cognition acts, the rates of tentative verbs were high in all sciences since the researchers tried to report the results with caution as they were uncertain about the findings. The results approved this claim, indicating the high frequency of tentative verbs under the category of discourse acts, across disciplines using verbs like hypothesize, indicate, and suggest to show doubt with different rates. The obtained results can guide novice writers of the above-mentioned four disciplines to advance an authorial perspective and adjust to the expert conventions of the relevant research areas.
The Efficacy of the Inclusion of Recast and Prompts Corrective Feedback in Task- based Language Teaching on Iranian EFL Learners' Grammar Knowledge(مقاله پژوهشی دانشگاه آزاد)
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The Journal of English Language Pedagogy and Practice, Vol.۱۶, No.۳۲, Spring & Summer ۲۰۲۳
177 - 201
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This study was an attempt to explore the impacts of recast and prompt as two types of corrective feedback on the development of knowledge of past tense by Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners. This study followed quasi- experimental design including pre-test, treatment, an immediate post-test, and a delayed post-test procedure. Initially, the pretest data from learners' performance on the Oral Performance Test (OPT) and the Untimed Grammatical Judgment Test (UGJT) was collected. After administering the pretest, the researchers gave the treatment to two experimental groups. Recast corrective feedback was supplied to the first experimental group, prompt corrective feedback was provided to the second experimental group, and no specific corrective feedback was given to the control group. The immediate post-test was given immediately following the delayed post-test, which was performed three weeks later. The findings of the study showed that when it came to their explicit and implicit knowledge of past tense, students who received prompt or recast corrective feedback outperformed those who received no particular corrective feedback. The results also showed that in this area, students in the group receiving prompt corrective feedback still did significantly much better than those in the recast group. The findings of this study may be useful for all stakeholders in the field of education but particularly for language teachers and students. They would benefit language teachers, teacher trainers, and material developers interested in employing task-based approach with feedback in their pedagogical activities.
Designing an Intercultural Development Inventory to Assess EFL Learners’ Intercultural Competence: A Mokken Scale Analysis(مقاله پژوهشی دانشگاه آزاد)
منبع:
The Journal of English Language Pedagogy and Practice, Vol.۱۶, No.۳۳, Fall & Winter ۲۰۲۳
149 - 173
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While the issue of intercultural competence has received considerable attention in second language learning and teaching over recent decades, the lack of a practical, valid, and dependable instrument to cross-culturally measure intercultural competence is strongly felt. For this reason, the current study aimed at developing and validating an inventory to examine EFL learners’ intercultural competence within the context of Iran. Following a qualitative-quantitative descriptive method research design, an instrument consisting of items adapted from intercultural competence-based survey instruments was generated. Accordingly, the study recruited 200 Iranian EFL learners to fill out the inventory. Furthermore, nine Iranian university professors in Applied Linguistics received an earlier draft of the Intercultural Competence Inventory (ICI) after it was prepared. The experts were requested to provide feedback on the developed Inventory’ content and face validity. After expert/content validation, the construct validity of the inventory was checked using R software running Mokken Scale Analysis. The analyses aimed to determine the structure of the inventory and verify the effectiveness of a five-point Likert response scale. The results concerning item attributes and the quality of the response scale provided confirmation of the scale's internal validity. Hopefully, the presence of this inventory in the Iranian context, characterized by strong internal consistency, internal validity, and construct validity, can contribute valuable insights to the study of intercultural competence among language learners.
Narrative Formation of Teacher Identity from the Perspective of Complexity Theory(مقاله پژوهشی دانشگاه آزاد)
منبع:
international Journal of Foreign Language Teaching & Research, Volume ۱۱, Issue ۴۶, Autumn ۲۰۲۳
49 - 62
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Teacher identity has been studied from several perspectives. However, the present study makes an attempt to investigate the process of identity formation through narrative telling from the framework of complexity theory. In a case study design semi-structured interview data and teacher-produced diaries of a novice Iranian English teacher were analyzed in order to identify attractors of identity formation. As a result, four major attractors that had the strongest effect on the process of identity formation were detected. Then the mechanisms through which these attractors exerted influence on identity formation are discussed. Finally, it has been argued that narrative construction of identity requires the individual to stress different aspects of their identity at different times; and that the phase shifts that occurred when the identity system moved in the direction of another attractor were triggered by the moment-to-moment requirements of narrative formation. The findings are followed by a discussion of pedogogical and theoretical implications.
Using Adobe Connect Platform: A Case of Iranian English Learners and Teachers in Sirjan(مقاله پژوهشی دانشگاه آزاد)
منبع:
international Journal of Foreign Language Teaching & Research, Volume ۱۱, Issue ۴۷, ۲۰۲۳
41 - 54
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The COVID-19 pandemic has created the most significant disruption of education systems in human history worldwide. In the present condition, E-learning platforms have gained more importance and become a permanent part of teachers’ and students’ lives. Consequently, studying E-learning platforms from a systemic approach gained the most prominence. One of the available and most used online platforms in Iran is “Adobe Connect”. Therefore, this study has investigated the challenges and benefits of using “Adobe Connect” in the Iranian E-learning system from the point of view of EFL students and teachers. This is a case study in which an in-depth understanding of language learning through the mentioned online platform was sought. The participants consisted of 10 EFL teachers and 158 students studying English at Islamic Azad University and Ilia Language Institute in Sirjan, who were selected based on purposive sampling. The data were collected using a researcher-made five-Likert scale questionnaire, including 27 items and semi-structured interviews. The results indicated a moderately positive attitude of language learners’ toward “Adobe Connect”. In addition, the EFL teachers presented a series of advantages and disadvantages of this platform. The obtained outcomes could serve the online platform creators and developers, teachers and learners as users of this platform and as a model for countries with similar technology infrastructure and cultural features wishing to improve their e-learning systems.
Developing and Validating a Model of Iranian EFL Teacher Classroom Fairness(مقاله پژوهشی دانشگاه آزاد)
منبع:
international Journal of Foreign Language Teaching & Research, Volume ۱۱, Issue ۴۷, ۲۰۲۳
115 - 127
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The present study aimed to develop and validate a model of Iranian EFL teacher classroom fairness using a sequential exploratory mixed methods design (QUAL + quan). The participants consisted of two groups. The first group consisted of 250 Iranian EFL teachers who were selected through available sampling through virtual groups in social networks. The second group of participants included 150 Iranian EFL learners at the intermediate level from different private language institutes in Iran were selected through available sampling from different virtual groups in WhatsApp or Telegram. The following instruments used for data collection in the present study: A Demographic information scale and a closed-ended questionnaire. Data analysis was conducted through thematic analysis by MAXQDA software and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis through SPSS and AMOS 24 software. Finally, the reliability of the developed model of Iranian EFL teacher classroom fairness was estimated using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. According to the results, a model of Iranian EFL teacher classroom fairness developed in four main components, including teaching fairness, evaluation fairness, classroom management fairness, and classroom communication fairness. Finally, the proposed model of Iranian EFL teacher classroom fairness found to be valid and reliable. The findings have some implications for policymakers, teacher educators, teacher education administrators, and curriculum developers
Relationship between Iranian Undergraduate English Students’ Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence and their Grammar Knowledge(مقاله پژوهشی دانشگاه آزاد)
منبع:
international Journal of Foreign Language Teaching & Research, Volume ۱۱, Issue ۴۷, ۲۰۲۳
129 - 138
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This study investigated the bodily-kinesthetic intelligence of Iranian undergraduate students in the English language and its relationship with their grammar knowledge. For this purpose, 139 male (N=46) and female (N=93) English language students aged 22 -32 years old were randomly selected as the participants. Multiple Intelligence Questionnaire (MIQ) and a grammar TOEFL test were used to evaluate the bodily-kinesthetic intelligence of the students and measure their grammar knowledge. Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence of students and its relationship with grammar knowledge was gauged using descriptive statistics and correlation analysis. The means of males and females in grammar knowledge and bodily-kinesthetic intelligence were assessed through a one-way sample t-test. The findings revealed a statistically significant relationship between the bodily-kinesthetic intelligence of the participants and their grammar knowledge. The findings also showed no remarkable differences between males and females regarding bodily-kinesthetic intelligence and grammar knowledge. The implication of the findings is that English language teachers should utilize the same effective grammar textbooks and tasks for both male and female students.