Mohammad Nabi Karimi
Kharazmi University
[ 1 ] - L2 Learners' Vocabulary Learning: Differential Effect(s) of Comprehension-Based vs. Production-Based Proactive/Reactive Focus on Form
This study aims to compare the effects of four types of FFI on second language vocabulary learning. To do so, the study adopted a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design, including five groups, each receiving a distinct treatment. The participants were 80 fourth-grade male students ranging in age from 17 to 19. Before the treatment phase, the participants took a researcher-made test of vocab...
[ 2 ] - Emotional Intelligence and Critical Thinking Ability as Correlates of EFL Learners’ Vocabulary Knowledge
The current study examined the correlation among Iranian EFL learners’ emotional intelligence (EI), critical thinking (CT) ability, and L2 vocabulary knowledge (VK). To this end, surveys were administered to 75 Iranian advanced EFL participants. Analyses of the data revealed a mutual relationship between the Iranian EFL learners’ EI and their L2 VK. Similarly, a positive correlation was found b...
[ 3 ] - An Assessment Scheme for ELT Performance: An Iranian Case of Farhangian University
Accountability concerns in language education call for the development of more valid and authentic measures of assessment. In light of these concerns, performance assessment has received increasing interest in the context of teacher education programs and teacher licensing over the last decade. In Iran, a recent policy adopted by Farhangian University aims at assessing the professional competen...
[ 4 ] - EFL TEACHERS’ BELIEFS ABOUT ORAL CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK AND THEIR FEEDBACK-PROVIDING PRACTICES ACROSS LEARNERS’ PROFICIENCY LEVELS
The present study investigated EFL teachers’ beliefs about oral corrective feedback (CF), their CF-provision practices across elementary and intermediate levels, and their beliefs-practices correspondence. To this end, the researchers conducted a semi-structured interview with the teachers and went on an overall forty-hour observation of their classrooms across both levels. The findings reveale...
[ 5 ] - Metadiscourse Strategies and Citation Patterns as Resources of Authorial Identity in Research Articles across International/Local Journals and Applied Linguistics Subdisciplines
The present study explored the rhetorical representation of authorial identity signaled by interactive/interactional metadiscourse strategies and integral/non-integral citation patterns in international and Iranian local research article discussion sections. The study also explored variation in metadiscourse and citation resources across three subdisciplines of Language Testing, English Languag...
[ 6 ] - 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...
[ 7 ] - تاثیر آموزش صریح نگاشت استعاری بر توانایی یادگیری زبان تمثیلی: نقش تسلط(چیرگی)مغزی
هدف این مطالعه بررسی تاثیر آموزش صریح نگاشت استعاری بر روی یادگیری زبان تمثیلی توسط فراگیران دارای چیرگی نیمکره چپ و راست مغز است. تعداد نود زبان آموز انگلیسی در این مطالعه شرکت کردند. 30 نفر از آن ها در گروه کنترل قرار گرفتند و هیچگونه آموزش نگاشت استعاری دریافت نکردند. 60 نفر دیگر، پرسشنامه چیرگی مغز (دیویس، 1994) را دریافت کردند. بر اساس نتایج، فراگیران به گروه دارای چیرگی نیمکره چپ مغز و گر...
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