Masoud Rahimi Domakani
Shahrekord University, Iran.
[ 1 ] - The Effect of Explicit Instruction of Formulaic Sequences on Oral Proficiency Improvement of Young Iranian EFL Students
Abstract This study aimed to shed light on young Iranian EFL students’ oral proficiency improvement through explicit instruction of formulaic sequences (FSs). This pretest-posttest quasi experimental study was conducted in a bilingual school in Shahrekord, Iran. Accordingly, based on ACTFL OPI test, two groups of low intermediate students with age range of 11 to 12 were chosen to be assigned as...
[ 2 ] - Role of Monolingualism/Bilingualism on Pragmatic Awareness and Production of Apology Speech Act of English as a Second and Third Language
The present study investigated the pragmatic awareness and production of Iranian Turkish and Persian EFL learners in the speech act of apology. Sixty-eight learners of English studying at several universities in Iran were selected based on simple random sampling as the monolingual and bilingual participants. Data were elicited by means of a written discourse self-assessment/completion test (WDS...
[ 3 ] - Exploring Dialogism and Multivocality in L2 Classroom-Discourse Architecture in Iran
Critical pedagogy (CP), as a poststructuralist educational movement, challenges the asymmetrical, power-over nature of classroom discourse and seeks to accommodate multivocality in the classroom and in the society. This study probed the discourse architecture of EFL classrooms in Iran. Specifically, it aimed to explore to what extent Iranian EFL classrooms have stepped away from the teacher-dom...
[ 4 ] - L2 Learners’ Affect and Pragmatic Performance: A Focus on Emotional Intelligence and Gender Dimensions
Research on L2 learners’ success at development and appropriate use of pragmatic ability and knowledge has mostly approached the issue from a cognitive or social perspective, and less attention has been devoted to the problem from the equally important emotional or individual-psychological lenses. This study sought to explore, first, the interplay between Iranian advanced EFL learners’ pragmati...
[ 5 ] - Pragmatic Awareness of the Request Speech Act in English as an Additional Language: Monolinguals or Bilinguals?
This study attempted to investigate the effect of bilingualism on pragmaticawareness and development among Iranian Turkish/Persian EFL learners. Data werecollected through a personal profile questionnaire with questions about theparticipants’ language background and a WDCT with 10 situations to determine theextent to which the bilinguals demonstrated their pragmatic awareness of requests.They w...
[ 6 ] - قابلیت دسترسی متفاوت دانش آگاهانه و غیر آگاهانه ی دستور زبان انگلیسی برای مهارت بسندگی دانشجویان رشته ی زبان انگلیسی
با توجه به آینده بکارگیری یک سیستم یادگیری دوگانه، آگاهانه و غیر آگاهانه، در تئوری ها و پژوهش هایزبان دوم، الیس ( 2006 ) بر این باور است که بررسی های بیشتر پیرامون چنین تمایزی برای مدل سازی ودریافت بهتر مهارت بسندگی زبان دوم و توانایی اندازه گیری و سنجش آن مفید و حائز اهمیت است. اینپژوهش قابلیت دسترسی متفاوت دانش آگاهانه و غیر آگاهانه دستور زبان را برای مهارت بسندگیدانشجویان زبان انگلیسی بررسی ...
[ 7 ] - The Effect of Explicit Instruction of Formulaic Sequences on Oral Proficiency Improvement of Young Iranian EFL Students
Abstract This study aimed to shed light on young Iranian EFL students’ oral proficiency improvement through explicit instruction of formulaic sequences (FSs). This pretest-posttest quasi experimental study was conducted in a bilingual school in Shahrekord, Iran. Accordingly, based on ACTFL OPI test, two groups of low intermediate students with age range of 11 to 12 were chosen to be assigned as...
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