Abdullah sarani
University of Sistan and Baluchestan
[ 1 ] - Unpeeling the Onion: On the Relationship among Iranian EFL Teachers’ Home-culture Attachment and Its Underlying Components with Their Emotional Intelligence
An understanding of language as ‘open, dynamic, constantly evolving and personal encompasses the rich complexities of communication (Shohamy, 2007, p.5). Knowing about the important role of culture as well as psychological aspects of language can give us a broader view of languageteaching and learning. In order to obtain a better understanding of different aspects of language teaching, the pres...
[ 2 ] - Refusal Speech Act Realization in Sarawani Balochi Dialect: A Case Study of Male University Students
Following Beebe, Takahashi, and Uliss-Weltz’s (1990) classification, this study examines the relationship between power and gender of the addressees and the type and number of refusal strategies employed by Sarawani Baloch male university students (SBMUS). Fifty SBMUS studying in Azad University of Sarawan were randomly chosen as the participants of the study. Data collection was accomplished t...
[ 3 ] - Explicit Instruction of Pragmatic Features: Its Impact on EFL Learners’ Knowledge of Hedging Devices in Academic Writing
Hedging academic claims has been recognized as one of integral pragmatic features of academic writing in which most EFL academic writers seem to face substantial problems. Explicit instruction has been proposed by some scholars as an effective approach to make EFL writers aware of the importance, different forms, and pragmatic functions of hedging devices some of which are polysemous and polypr...
[ 4 ] - On Application of Critical Pedagogy Principles by ELT Instructors and Subject Teachers: A Case of Iranian Universities
Language educators are required to reflect upon content delivered to the students. Teaching strategies should be adapted to keep students loyal to cultural identity as well as foster resistance to oppressive policies dictated within English language curricula. Despite the significance of applying critical principles by teachers, it is not known whether Iranian ELT instructors and subject teache...
[ 5 ] - Diagnosing L2 Receptive Vocabulary Development Using Dynamic Assessment: A Microgenetic Study
The present study is an attempt to shed light on the effect of Dynamic Assessment (DA) on diagnosing and developing the receptive vocabulary abilities of upper-intermediate learners learning English as a foreign language. Fifty L2 leaners participated in the First Certificate in English test and completed Vocabulary Knowledge Scale. Out of 50 students, ten learners who were identified as being ...
[ 6 ] - The Effect of Bilingualism/ Monolinguals on L2 Working Memory Capacity and Verbal Intelligence
Issues related to bilingualism and the effects which might have on language learners’ cognitive and meta-cognitive variables have attracted the attention of a couple of researchers in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA).Since a couple of decades ago, there has been a plethora of studies on cognitive and metacognitive differences between bilinguals and monolinguals. However, the impac...
[ 7 ] - The Effect of Genre Awareness on English Translation Quality and Pedagogy: A Case of News Reports Translation as an Academic Curriculum
To produce an adequate translation, language students are required to learn varieties of language features including syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Considering the curriculum language learners are face with, one can claim that almost all language students in Iran are taught these features in their academic settings including linguistic courses. Yet, there are some aspects of language which a...
[ 8 ] - Job Performance of Iranian English Teachers: Do Teaching Experience and Gender Make a Difference?
In the available teacher development literature, the linkage between teaching experience, as one the crucial factors in teacher development (Tsui, 2005), and English teachers’ job performance with regard to gender differences has remain widely underexplored. To fill up this lacuna, this study investigated whether there was any significant correlation between Iranian English teachers’ years of e...
[ 9 ] - Exploring EFL Learners’ Use of Formulaic Sequences in Pragmatically Focused Role-play Tasks
Communicative language use largely entails regular patterns consisting of pre-constructed phrases or sequences. These sequences have been examined by many researchers to find the situation-based formulas which may help L2 learners follow a possibly more target-like speaking system. This study, therefore, explored two categories of formulaic expressions including speech formulas and situation-bo...
[ 10 ] - تبیین و بررسی تأثیر انگاره بومیِ ارزشیابی پویا در شناخت و رفع مشکلات یادگیری مهارت‌های زبانیِ مولد در دانش‌آموزان متوسطه
ارزشیابی پویا، رویکردی نوین در آزمون‌سازی است که ریشه در مبانی نظری فراوانی دارد و به همین دلیل، در سالهای اخیر مورد توجه محققان قرار گرفته است. اما اغلب این تحقیقات در محیط‌ای آزمایشگاهی بوده و قابلیت این رویکرد را در یک دروة تحصیلی واقعی بررسی نکرده‌اند. در تحقیق حاضر با بهره‌گیری از نظریه‌های گوناگون آموزش و ارزشیابی، انگاره‌ای بومی از ارزشیابی پویا برای شناخت مشکلات یادگیری تبیین و سپس نتای...