Zohreh Seifoori
Islamic Azad University,Tabriz Branch
[ 1 ] - The Effect of Bottom-up/Top- down Techniques on Lower vs. Upper -Intermediate EFL Learners’ Listening Comprehension
Listening is regarded as an interactive process involving decoding of information. This study was launched to find out the impact of bottom-up (BU) and top-down (TD) techniques on Iranian lower and upper intermediate learners’ listening comprehension. We selected a total of 120 participants in six intact classes, three lower intermediate and three upper intermediate. The proficiency level of th...
[ 2 ] - Persian Speakers’ Recognition of English Relative Clauses: The Effects of Enhanced Input vs. Explicit Feedback Types
Despite consensus in focus on form (FOF) instruction over the facilitative role of noticing, controversy has not quelled over ways of directing EFL learners’ attention towards formal features via implicit techniques like input-enhancement or explicit metacognitive feedback and interactive peer-editing on the output they produce. This quasi-experimental study investigated the impact of input enh...
[ 3 ] - Postgraduate English Students’ Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies and Their Reading Comprehension: A Comparative Study
A fundamental necessity at postgraduate level is a developed strategic reading skill that permits digesting tremendous amounts of technical academic content. The need is more paramount for EFL contexts and postgraduate students majoring in English Language Teaching (ELT) and English Literature (EL) most of whom will ultimately search a career in teaching. The aim of the present ex-post facto s...
[ 4 ] - The Relationship between Iranian EFL Learners’ Ambiguity Tolerance and the Accuracy of Their Task-based Oral Speech
Various individual differences, including ambiguity tolerance (AT), have gained momentum because of the influence they can exert on the process and product of learning, and thereby, on various aspects of the learner’s interlanguage system such as accuracy of oral speech. The present study was undertaken to examine the extent to which Iranian EFL learners’ AT was significantly correlated with th...
[ 5 ] - The Effects of Task Variation on the Accuracy and Complexity of Iranian EFL Learners’ Oral Performance
Task variation is an integrative method aiming at the importance of learner-to-learner interactions in a wide range of learning contexts and fostering authentic use of language and meaningful communication. This study investigated the impact of task variation on the accuracy and complexity of Iranian EFL learners’ oral speech. In so doing, 80 intermediate EFL learners, majoring English at the I...
[ 6 ] - مقایسه ی نگرش دبیران زبان انگلیسی دبیرستانهای تبریز نسبت به استفاده از تکنولوژی در کلاس بر اساس ویژگیهای دموگرافیک آنها
ویژگیهای جمعیتی دبیران بعنوان یکی ازعوامل مؤثّر در استفاده از تکنولوژی در کلاس معرفی شده اند. در تحقیق حاضر نگرش دبیران زبان انگلیسی دبیرستانهای تبریز نسبت به استفاده از تکنولوژی در کلاس بر اساس ویژگیهای دموگرافیک آنها مورد بررسی قرار میگیرد. در این پژوهش، 195 نفر از دبیران زبان انگلیسی دبیرستانهای تبریز پرسشنامه‌ای 30 آیتمی از نوع لیکرت را که نسخۀ اصلاح شدۀ پرسشنامۀ آلبیرنی(2006) بود، پُرکردند...
[ 7 ] - The Effect of Multiple Intelligence-Oriented Thematic Clustering on Advanced EFL Learners’ Vocabulary Learning
Burgeoning research in applied linguistics has underscored the interplay among individual, cognitive, and social variables that can delineate the ultimate attainment in various areas including vocabulary learning and the need to explore how innovative conflation of these dimensions may promote learning outcomes. The present quasi-experimental study examined the impact of Thematic Vocabulary Ins...