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The impact of Motivational Scaffolding on Self-efficacy and Learning Achievement of Field Dependent/ Independent EFL Learners(مقاله پژوهشی دانشگاه آزاد)

کلید واژه ها: motivational scaffolding Self-Efficacy learning achievement cognitive styles

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The study investigated the impacts of motivational scaffolding as one of the most effective instructional procedures on self-efficacy and learning achievement of field-dependent and field-independent English language learners. This study attempted to use both qualitative and quantitative data to get more reliable results. As qualitative part, 15 teachers in a semi-structured interview, and as quantitative part, two groups of learners participated as experimental and control groups. Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire was used to determine students' self-efficacy. The Group Embedded Figures Test was administered to categorize them into groups of field-dependent and field-independent. To determine proficiency level, a pre-test and a post-test were used. As treatment, eight sessions of Bandura’s training were administered to improve self-efficacy. Analysis of the qualitative data was conducted using content analysis, and as quantitative analysis, two-way Multivariate Analysis of Variance was conducted. The results showed that learners’ interacting within motivational scaffolding improved their self-efficacy and their learning achievement, and there is no significant difference between learners in the dimensions of field-dependent, field-independent. The findings have implications for teachers and learners in educational settings to detect some factors affecting the English language learners’ language performance and their psychological status.
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Iranian EFL Learners’ and Teachers’ Attitudes Towards High School English Textbooks(مقاله پژوهشی دانشگاه آزاد)

کلید واژه ها: high school textbooks students attitude teachers attitude Textbook Evaluation

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The current study aimed to evaluate the content of the English textbooks taught in Iranian senior high schools. To this purpose, the study relied upon a descriptive survey design. Through a stratified random sampling, a total of 12 senior high schools were selected from the high schools located in Isfahan. To select the teacher participants, a convenience sampling method was employed. Then, a structured questionnaire was administered to the selected teachers and students. The obtained data were statistically analyzed and item analysis revealed that the accessibility and affordability of the textbooks were the most-favored features. However, most of the students wondered whether the textbooks were equipped with supplementary (online and offline) materials. The post-hoc analysis results revealed the significant overall teacher-student disagreement towards the textbooks. Generally, the results showed that there is a need to adapt the teaching materials to the target situation of use. As a practical implication, the findings may urge the developers of the textbooks to launch a modification project in order to get more conscious in developing future textbooks. Moreover, the findings are of use for the teachers of the textbooks as well as the pedagogical policy makers. 
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The Impact of Vocabulary Enrichment through the Integration of Reading and Writing Tasks on Advanced EFL Learners’ Motivation in ESP Courses(مقاله پژوهشی دانشگاه آزاد)

کلید واژه ها: English for Specific Purposes English for occupational purposes learners’ motivation specialized vocabulary

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Motivation in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) courses is an issue of utmost importance. Expanding specialized vocabulary is one of the objectives defined by ESP stakeholders. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the role of vocabulary enrichment through close integration of reading and writing tasks in promoting advanced English for Occupational Purposes (EOP) learners’ motivation and attitudes. To this end, fifteen civil engineers were selected through convenience sampling. Following an eight-session course centered around technical vocabulary using reading and writing tasks, questionnaires were used as pretest and posttest based on Attitudinal/Motivation Test Battery (ATMTB), to measure nine types of motivation. Nine paired samples t-tests were conducted to determine whether there was a mean difference in the questionnaire results across time from pretest to posttest. The results demonstrated significant increase in all types of motivation following the integration of reading and writing tasks, excluding intrinsic motivation considering self-confidence. It was shown that there is a close relation between ESP learners’ motivation and the amount of vocabulary they learn. The results proposed certain practical strategies in order for ESP/EOP material developers and teachers to fulfill the objectives and aims of these needs-based courses.
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A Study on the Effect of Teachers’ Text Specific Comments and Rubber-Stamped Comments on Iranian EFL Learners’ Writing Ability(مقاله پژوهشی دانشگاه آزاد)

کلید واژه ها: text-specific rubber-stamped teacher comments writing skill

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Written corrective feedback (WCF) refers to the feedback given by writing instructors and tutors on novice writers’ performances. Although extensive importance has been attached to the implications of WCF for improving writing skill in L2 writing studies, there is a paucity of research into research on whether student writers benefit differently from elaborated and evaluative feedback. Having this in mind, the aim of this research was to examine the effect of teacher’s text-specific and rubber-stamped comments on Iranian EFL learners’ writing ability at intermediate level. Quick Placement Test was employed to select 40 pre-intermediate EFL learners as the participants of this research. Then, they were randomly assigned into two experimental and control groups. Prior to the treatment, the participants of both groups were given a pretest to disclose their initial writing ability. After administering the rubber-stamped comments to the experimental group and text specific to the control group, a posttest was administered to seek the effect of two types of instruments. An independent samples t-test was used to see if the treatment was effective. Paired samples t-test was also employed to determine the amount of progression between pretest and posttest of the experimental group. The results of the study revealed that rubber-stamped comments improved the learners’ writing ability. Implicationally, instructors can use rubber-stamped comments to help learners improve their writing ability.
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Effects of Recast and Explicit Corrective Feedback on Iranian Test-takers’ Anxiety in Speaking across Proficiency Levels(مقاله پژوهشی دانشگاه آزاد)

کلید واژه ها: anxiety in speaking corrective feedback Explicit correction IELTS recast

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This study investigated the effects of recast and explicit corrective feedback on Iranian IELTS test-takers anxiety in speaking across different levels of proficiency. Ninety male and female learners, aged 21 to 45, who were preparing themselves to take the IELTS Mock test, were divided into upper-intermediate and advanced levels. Then, they were randomly assigned to control and experimental groups (recast and explicit correction). There were 10 treatment sessions for each group. In the recast group, the students’ mistakes were corrected using reformulation. In the explicit correction group, mistakes were not tolerated, and they were corrected on the spot. In order to measure the anxiety in speaking performance, Chowdhury’s (2014) questionnaire was given to the participants once before the treatment and once after the treatment. Then, the score of each learner was calculated and recorded for the data analysis. The results showed that there was no statistically significant difference between the control and explicit corrective group and the control and recast groups at the upper-intermediate level. However, there was a statistically significant difference between the control and recast groups and the control and explicit group at the advanced levels.
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EFL Teachers’ and Students’ Perceptions about Communication Strategies Teachability(مقاله پژوهشی دانشگاه آزاد)

کلید واژه ها: Communication Strategies Perception teaching CSs Iranian EFL learners’ perceptions teachability

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The current study examined the Iranian EFL teachers’ and students’ perceptions about Communication Strategies Teachability. The study was conducted with 20 teachers and 110 students from universities and private language Institutes in Tabriz, Iran. The literature regarding the teachability of communication strategies (CSs) has been far from conclusive. Some researchers reject the possibility of CSs instruction while many empirical studies support their teachability. Taking a mixed method design, the present study used a language proficiency test, a questionnaire and an interview for data collection. In the quantitative phase, the participants’ responses to questionnaire before and after a 12-week period of teaching CSs were statistically compared. The analysis of the quantitative data obtained from the questionnaire through Paired-samples t-test indicated that the students’ perceptions towards the usefulness of CSs grew significantly more positive after their instruction. The qualitative analysis of the interview data collected from the teachers indicated that most teachers found CSs useful and possible to teach. It was also found that these strategies improved capability of English language learners to speak and enhaned their conciousness of CSs. This study could offer pedagogical implications for both teachers and students and pave the way for further studies in the field.
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بررسی وضعیت حیات زبانی مازندرانی در مناطق شهری(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

کلید واژه ها: حیات زبانی مازندرانی تغییر زبانی جامعه شناسی زبان یونسکو

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در سال 2003 یونسکو دستورالعملی را برای برآورد حیات زبان ها و میزان در معرض خطر بودن آنها ارائه داد. مزیت برآورد این است که با شناخت حوزه های کاربرد زبان و وضعیت موجود زبان در هر یک از عوامل نه گانه معرفی شده یونسکو می توان راهکارهایی برای گسترش کاربرد، ثبت و مستندسازی و در نتیجه پیشگیری از انقراض زبان اندیشید. هرچند مهم ترین عامل در زنده ماندن هر زبانی انتقال زبان از والدین به فرزندان و به عبارتی دیگر، انتقال بین نسلی است، اما عوامل دیگری نیز بر حیات زبانی تأثیرگذار هستند و برای برآورد وضعیت حیات زبانی باید همه این عوامل را درکنار هم سنجید. هدف این پژوهش بررسی وضعیت حیات زبانی مازندرانی و برآورد نقاط ضعف و قوت آن با به کارگیری شیوه های یونسکو است. مازندرانی از زبان های ایرانی کرانه جنوبی دریای کاسپین است و حدود 3 میلیون گویشور دارد. این زبان نیز همانند دیگر زبان ها و گویش های محلی و منطقه ای ایران به دلایلی که تا حدودی در مقاله به آنها پرداخته شده در حال از دست دادن گویشوران خود است.
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The Effect of Individually-Generated, Teacher-Generated, and Cooperatively-Generated Graphic Organizers on Intermediate EFL Students' Vocabulary Knowledge(مقاله پژوهشی دانشگاه آزاد)

کلید واژه ها: graphic organizer vocabulary knowledge intentional vocabulary learning

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Although previous studies have shown the benefits of graphic organizers in improving learners' vocabulary knowledge, scant attention has been paid to the possible differences in the effect of individually-developed, cooperatively-developed, and teacher-developed graphic organizers on intermediate L2 learners' vocabulary knowledge. The present study addressed this topic by examining 80 intermediate language learners. The participants were selected based on convenience sampling procedure and studied English in four classes. The learners in the conventional group received the translation/definition of the lexical items. Those in the teacher-generated were provided with the graphic organizers prepared by their teacher, and the participants in the other two groups made the graphic organizers either individually or cooperatively. The researchers employed Vocabulary Knowledge Scale as the pre-test, immediate post-test, and delayed post-test to examine the participants' vocabulary knowledge. The findings of this study indicated that the mean scores of the control group in the immediate and delayed post-tests were significantly lower than those of all graphic organizer groups. In addition, the cooperatively-generated graphic organizer group was significantly more successful than learner and teacher-generated graphic organizer groups, but there was no difference between the learner and teacher-generated groups.
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Investigating the Impacts of Teacher Metalinguistic Feedback vs. Collaborative Peer Feedback on Iranian EFL Learners’ Writing Performance(مقاله پژوهشی دانشگاه آزاد)

کلید واژه ها: corrective feedback Form-focused instruction lexical diversity Accuracy Metalinguistic

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Corrective feedback refers to a teacher or student’s reaction to a learner’s target language production containing an actual or perceived error. The last three decades have witnessed a large amount of research on the impacts of various types of corrective feedback on students’ written production. Along the same vein, the present study seeks to explore the effectiveness of providing teachers’ metalinguistic feedback vs. peers’ collaborative feedback on students’ writing performance. In so doing, the present study adopted a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design including three upper-intermediate groups (i.e., two experimental and one control). The participants of the study were a total of 62 English as a foreign language (EFL) freshman students from two public universities in Tehran, Iran. The writing tasks utilized in the present study were adopted from IELTS writing Task 2. The results of one-way between groups analysis of variance (ANOVA) revealed that students produced significantly more lexically diverse as well as grammatically accurate language as a result of both treatments. Moreover, it was observed that collaborative peer feedback led to significantly higher lexical diversity than those of other two groups. The findings of the present study suggest that L2 teachers can opt for a combination of corrective feedback strategies to help learners improve their writing performance.
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سازوکارهای به واژه سازی در رمان های دوره مشروطه مطالعه موردی؛ سرگذشت یتیمان، مصاحبه، نیرنگ سیاه(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

کلید واژه ها: به واژه حُسن تعبیر رمان مشروطه سرگذشت یتیمان مصاحبه نیرنگ سیاه

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هدف اصلی در این جستار، برشمردن انواع به واژه در رمان های دوره مشروطه و مقایسه آنها با معادل ادبی، فرهنگی و اجتماعی امروزی و بررسی تحول آنهاست. برای نیل به این منظور به واژه در سه رمان سرگذشت یتیمان ، مصاحبه و نیرنگ سیاه ، از رمان های اجتماعی دوره مشروطه مطالعه شده است. در این جستار ابتدا به واژگان براساس بافت متن، موقعیت داستانی و مفهوم توجه شده، سپس سازوکار ساخت به واژه تعیین شده است. براساس این مطالعه می توان گفت به واژه ها علاوه بر مفهوم اصلی، معانی ضمنی را نیز شامل می شوند؛ این معانی می توانند برساخته اجتماع یا دوره تاریخی خاصی باشند یا عاطفه و ایدئولوژی خاصی را حمل کنند یا در مقابل واژگان و مفاهیم تابو به کار روند. در این مقاله نشان داده شده که رمان های مطالعه شده چگونه با به واژه ها، که با استفاده از سازوکارهای کاربرد اطناب، ایجاز، کنایه، استعاره، مجاز، ترکیب وصفی، ترکیب اضافی، استفاده از واژگان غیرفارسی، استفاده از واژگان کهن فارسی و استفهام انکاری ساخته شده اند، به بیان مفاهیم اجتماعی، فرهنگی و اخلاقی دوره مشروطه پرداخته اند.
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گویش سنجی رایانشیِ تنوعاتِ آوایی گویش تالشی در استان گیلان(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

کلید واژه ها: گویش سنجی رایانشی گونه های زبانی تنوعات آوایی زبان تالشی تحلیل انبوه

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گویش سنجی، گرایشی نوین و برآمده از گویش شناسی کلاسیک است که در آن تفاوت ها و تمایزات گویش های یک ناحیه به صورت آماری محاسبه و با نقشه ها و اطلس های گویشی بازنمایی می شود. در پژوهش حاضر کوشیده ایم براساس روش تحلیل انبوهه داده های گویشی و با بهره گیری از بسته نرم افزاری گویش سنجی و نقشه نگاری RuG/L04، چشم اندازی از تنوعات آوایی زبان تالشی را ارائه دهیم. جامعه آماری این پژوهش ساکنان آبادی های تالش زبان 5 شهرستان تالش، رضوانشهر، ماسال، فومن و شفت است. از هر شهرستان 10 روستایِ بالای 100 خانوار انتخاب، و روستای تالش زبان «عنبران» از شهرستان نمین استان اردبیل نیز اضافه شد و جمع روستاها به 51 رسید. از هر روستا سه گویشور در رده سنی نوجوان، میان سال و سالمند انتخاب، و با آنها مصاحبه حضوری انجام شد. ابزار پژوهش، از پرسشنامه های زبانی سُوادِش و لایپزیک بود که مشتمل بر 65 واژه در 10 مقوله واژگانی بود. نتایج پژوهش نشان داد که در تمام گونه های تالشی تشابهات و تنوعات آوایی وجود دارد که در حوزه های تناوب آوایی و تنوعات در همخوان ها و واکه ها بررسی گردید.  
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Lexical Inferencing Strategy Instruction and the Development of Reading Comprehension: The Case of Iranian EFL Learners(مقاله پژوهشی دانشگاه آزاد)

کلید واژه ها: lexical inferencing strategy Reading Comprehension

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Lexical inferencing has been recognized as an effective learning strategy in SLA. The present study investigated Iranian EFL learners’ development of reading comprehension as a result of exposure to lexical inferencing strategy instruction. To do so, 45 female participants studying in Simin Language Institute in Rasht, Iran were selected from among 60 students based on the results of a sample of Oxford quick Placement (OQP) test, who scored from 40 to 47. They were in two intact classes, assigned to one experimental (n=24) and one control group (n=21). The experimental group underwent the teaching of reading comprehension through lexical inferencing strategy to help learners infer the meaning of unknown words and promote their understanding of the text. However, the control group received the traditional instruction of reading comprehension concentrating on the translation of new words. The results of the pre- and post-tests of reading comprehension revealed the significant outperformance of the treatment group over the control group’s reading comprehension ability. It was concluded that lexical inferencing strategy teaching could develop the learners’ potential to improve their cognitive capacities in inferring the meaning of unknown words, which might be facilitative in their reading comprehension.
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The Effect of One Teach-One Assist Model of Co-teaching on Iranian EFL Learners’ Reading Comprehension(مقاله پژوهشی دانشگاه آزاد)

کلید واژه ها: co-teaching EFL Learners one teach-one assist Reading Comprehension

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Co-teaching is a method that two teachers work together and deliver the instruction in the same classroom to a heterogeneous group of learners. This study was an attempt to find out the effect of one teach-one assist model of co-teaching on Iranian EFL learners’ reading comprehension. To this end, a quasi-experimental design with the pre-test, post-test, and control group was employed and 35 female students within the age range of 15-18 at the elementary level were selected as the participants of the study from Sanjesh-E-No institute in Tabriz, Iran.  They were randomly assigned into the experimental and control groups after taking Key English Test (KET). The experimental group received instruction through two teachers while the control group was taught by a single teacher. Both groups took part in the pre-test and post-test of reading comprehension. The results of an independent-samples t-test revealed that the experimental group had significantly better reading performance compared to the control group. The results of the study can be useful for teachers, students, and any ELT program.
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وام واژه های روسی در گویش گیلکی(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

کلید واژه ها: گویش گیلکی زبان روسی وام گیری وام واژه ریشه شناسی

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وام گیری پدیده ای است جهانی و چنانچه کنترل شده باشد، موجب غنای زبان مقصد می شود. میان سرزمین های گیلان و روسیه همواره روابط زبانی گسترده ای وجود داشته و شاهد واژه های فراوانی هستیم که به واسطه همجواری و سال ها روابط فرهنگی، سیاسی، نظامی، تجاری و ... از زبان روسی وارد گویش گیلکی شدند، درحالی که نشانی از آنها در زبان فارسی معیار و دیگر گویش های ایرانی نیست. در این مقاله، با تکیه بر واژه نامه های گیلکی فهرستی از وام واژه های روسی تهیه و آنها را در دو دسته طبقه بندی کرده ایم: وام واژه های روسی مشترک در فارسی و دیگر گویش ها؛ وام واژه هایی که تنها وارد زبان گیلکی شدند. در مقابل هر وام واژه معادل روسی آن را ذکر و تلفظش را آوانویسی و تغییرات معنایی، آوایی و صرفی واژه ها را پس از ورود به زبان مقصد بررسی می کنیم. هدف از این تحقیق معرفی و تدقیق ویژگی های کلی روند وام گیری در گیلکی است. با بررسی وام واژه ها به این نتیجه می رسیم که وام گیری غالباً از نوع واژگانی است و وام واژه ها بیشتر در گستره زندگی روزمره اهالی گیلان به چشم می خورند و در اغلب موارد دچار دگرگونی شدید معنایی نشدند.

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