Rethinking the language of thought.

Promoting Dialogic Talk in a Speaking Classroom: Rethinking Bakhtinian Pedagogy

This study sought to promote EFL learners' speaking ability drawing on Bakhtin’s notion of dialogic discourse pattern (DDP) and to explore their perceptions towards implementing dialogic teaching (DT) in a speaking classroom. To this end, from the population of students in different language institutes, 47 students were selected based on a purposive sampling method. The data were collected at t...

Introducing Books/ The Literary Mind: The Origin of Thought and Language, Sima Rahimi

Language Shapes Thought: Rethinking on Linguistic Relativity

We reviewed the researches on linguistic relativity in color, space and time domains, and rethink the relationship between language and perception to support the idea that language interact with other cognitive processes and shape the perception and thought of human. Language, perception and action are not separated systems, but are closely interconnected and highly interacted to some extent. A...

Comparative Study of the Concept of Justice in Imam Khomeini and SayyidQutb’s Political Thought

Justice is one of the most important tendencies andinteractions in human existence that sustains the human society. In addition,one of the fundamental conce...

Variations in EFL Teachers’ Pedagogical Knowledge Base as a Function of Their Teaching License Status

The study of teachers’ pedagogical knowledge base (PKB) to discover how teachers think and work is attracting increasing attention in ELT. Against this background, the present study aimed at probing the likely variations in EFL teachers’ pedagogical knowledge base as a function of their teaching license status. To this aim, six teachers (two standard-licensed, two alternatively-licensed, and tw...

Analytical Review of the Philosophy of Leading Media Function in The Presentation of Social Thought

Purpose: The purpose of this study was the role of media in the function of social thought. Exploring the thoughts of human about the society leads us to this point that our behavior and our emotions are merely a function of the society and its culture. Methodology: Most of the insights in the culture of a society develop the thoughts, feelings and actions of individuals from one side and limit...