درخت حوزه‌های تخصصی

در سالهای اخیر، پژوهش در زمینه یادگیری زبان عوامل موثر بر انتخاب راهکارهای یادگیری زبان بویژه راهکارهای مهارت نگارش به منظور ارتقا یادگیری را بیش از پیش مورد توجه قرار داده است. نوع شخصیت به عنوان یکی از عوامل موثر در کانون توجه پژوهش حاضر قرار دارد که هدفش مطالعه راهکارهای نگارش در رابطه با نوع شخصیت در چند دانشگاه ایران بود. به این منظور، پرسشنامه راهکارهای مهارت نگارش مورد استفاده قرار گرفت تا راهکارهای حافظه ای، شناختی، جبرانی، فراشناختی، اجتماعی و عاطفی مورد استفاده ۲۱۰ نفر شرکت کننده در این پژوهش را مشخص نماید. پرسشنامه مایر بریگز برای مشخص کردن نوع شخصیت شرکت کنندگان مورد استفاده قرار گرفت. تحلیل نظرات ابراز شده شرکت کنندگان رابطه معنی داری را بین راهکارهای ارتباطی و نوع شخصیت نشان می دهد. بر اساس نظرات ابراز شده همچنین مشخص شد که راهکارهای فراشناختی و شناختی پر بسامدترین راهکارها و راهکارهای حافظه ای با کمترین بسامد مورد استفاده قرار می گیرند.

This study investigated the impact of using the technique of self-monitoring on non-academic EFL learners’ composition writing. Fifty female students studying English at Navid English Institute in Shiraz, Iran were chosen based on the results of a proficiency test. They were all 16-20 years old and were intermediate learners of English who were divided into two control and experimental groups and took a writing pre-test. The experimental group (EG) received a training program on the effective use of the technique of self-monitoring proposed by Charles (1990). That is, they learned to add annotations expressing doubts and queries on various parts of their five composition drafts. The students in CG wrote their drafts without annotations. At the end of the twenty-second session course, both groups took a writing posttest. The results indicated that the learners in EG performed significantly better and the global features of organization and content in their writing were enhanced. Surveying the students’ views on self-monitoring, through a questionnaire, revealed their interest in taking charge of their writing task. Findings point to the efficacy of the self-monitoring technique in promoting learners’ writing proficiency and autonomy in handling writing tasks.

The process of globalization entails the acquisition of a construct, cultural intelligence, with which EFL students can function appropriately in intercultural situations. This study was, first, intended to find the relationship between cultural intelligence and the use of expressions of gratitude by Iranian EFL learners. Second, it sought to determine whether there were any significant differences between low and high culturally intelligent EFL learners in the way they used expressions of gratitude in English. To this end, 118 intermediate learners were selected through convenient sampling, with their proficiency level being controlled. A discourse completion test (DCT) for the expressions of gratitude and a cultural intelligence scale were given to the participants of the study. Learners’ DCT responses were rated on a five-point Likert scale and then analyzed. Statistical tests including Pearson Correlation Coefficient and t-test were used to investigate the research questions. The results of the analysis revealed that there was not a significant relationship, either positive or negative, between cultural intelligence and use of expressions of gratitude. Furthermore, no difference was found between the two groups, high and low culturally intelligent, in the way they used English expressions of gratitude. These findings have implications for the instruction of pragmatic competence.