Afsar Rouhi
Payame Noor University, Tehran
[ 1 ] - Task Difficulty and Its Components: Are They Alike or Different across Different Macro-genres?
Task difficulty across different macro-genres continues to remain among less attended areas in second language development studies. This study examined the correlation between task difficulty across the descriptive, narrative, argumentative, and expository macro-genres. The three components of task difficulty (i.e., code complexity, cognitive complexity, and communicative stress) were also comp...
[ 2 ] - Next or Beyond Next: Effect of Contrastive Phrase-Based Treatment on Stage Gain Across Self-Paced and More Time-Constrained Tasks
This study explored the effect of contrastive phrase resynthesis instruction ongaining the teachability hypothesis stages in self-paced versus time-constrained oralproduction and recognition. Three groups (i.e., 23 learners) of high beginner femalelearners in an English language institute were randomly selected from a cohort oflearners. One group received contrastive metalinguistic instruction ...
[ 3 ] - Can Scaffolding Mechanisms of Structuring and Problematizing Facilitate the Transfer of Genre-based Knowledge to Another Discourse Mode?
A pivotal issue in research on writing concerns whether the knowledge of how genres are constructed and learned in one discipline/genre can be transferred to other contexts, genres, and disciplines. Yet, studies conducted so far have not presented a unified and complete view of how various writing instructional techniques can result in transferability. This study examined the effect of structur...
[ 4 ] - تأثیر حمایت از طریق ساختاردهی و مسئله‌سازی بر روی مهارت‌های خودسازمان‌دهی نوشتار، توانایی نوشتن مقاله و زمان برنامه‌ریزی کلی زبان‌آموزان
تحقیق حاضر به بررسی تأثیر سازکارهای ساختاردهنده و مسئله‌ساز حمایت کننده بر روی مهارت‌های خودسازمان‌دهی نوشتار، توانایی نوشتن مقاله و زمان برنامه‌ریزی کلی در مرحله پیش نوشتار از مراحل نوشتن مقاله و همچنین بررسی نقش سطح زبان‌آموزان به عنوان متغیر تعدیل کننده در میان صد و بیست زبان‌آموز سطح پیش متوسط و صد و بیست زبان‌آموز سطح پیشرفته پرداخته است. پس از فرض نمرات پیش‌آزمون به عنوان همگام، محققان نت...
[ 5 ] - Input-induced Variation in EFL Learners’ Oral Production in Terms of Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency
Researchers have extensively studied phenomena that affect a second language learner’s oral production while there is scant evidence about input-related factors. Accordingly, the present study sought to investigate how variation in oral production is caused by the input they receive from different course materials. To this end, the study included a micro-evaluation study of three course materia...
[ 6 ] - EFL Textbooks, L2 Contacts, and Teacher Self-Efficacy: Impact on Learners’ Development of Oral Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency
Researchers have extensively compared different L2 learning contexts, such as EFL versus study-abroad, for their impacts on oral production; however, scant attention, if any, has been paid to comparing EFL settings in terms of input factors such as textbooks, amount of contacts in L2, and teachers. Accordingly, the effects of these factors on the oral production skills were investigated in this...
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