Azizollah Dabaghi
استادیار دانشگاه اصفهان
[ 1 ] - Vocabulary Instruction Method and Specialized Reading Comprehension: Build a Bridge or Wash it away
The present study aimed to examine and compare the impact of teaching economic terms through etymological elaboration with three more conventional methods of vocabulary instruction in ESP courses in Iran, that is, teaching through contextual definitions, L1 translation, and implicit instruction on the learners' general comprehension of economic texts and their understanding of author's opinion....
[ 2 ] - THE EFFECT OF COGNITIVE FUNCTION OF METAPHORS ON TEACHING ECONOMIC TERMS TO IRANIAN ECONOMIC MAJORS IN ESP COURSES
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of two strategies of explicit teaching of economic terms on learners' vocabulary learning and retention. In the first explicit strategy, known as 'etymological elaboration', the focus was on presenting conceptual metaphors through 'identify-the-source' tasks, that is, providing the learners with the source domains underlying the metaphors,...
[ 3 ] - TRANSLATING CULTURAL SIGNS IN CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOKS
Every happening in one's life may be regarded by her/him as a leading phenomenon to other happenings. This leading phenomenon which can anticipate the subsequent happenings is called SIGN. Signs are unique for every group of human being and hence culture-specific. This is even true for every individual. Signs permeate in every aspect of universe. Among these fields, children's literature is stu...
[ 4 ] - Language and the Socio-Cultural Worlds of Those Who Use it: A Case of Vague Expressions
The present study is an attempt to investigate the use of vague expressions by intermediate EFL learners. More specifically, the current study focuses on the structures and functions of one of the most common categories of vague language, i.e. general extenders. The data include a 22-hour corpus of English-as-a-foreign-language conversations. A comparison is also made between this corpus and a...
[ 5 ] - گفتمان‌های بیگانه و بایستگیِ برنامه‌ریزی برای نوآوری واژگانیِ فرادانشی در زبان فارسی
نیم‌‌نگاهی کارسنجانه بر برخی پژوهش‌ها و نگاشته‌‌های انتشار‌‌یافته درباب «واژه‌‌گزینی فارسی»، بهویژه در برخی شماره‌‌هایِ پژوهش‌‌نامۀ نامۀ فرهنگستان، از وجودِ رویکردی بیش‌‌گرایانه به‌سویِ واژه‌‌گزینیِ دانشیک در پاسخ به سرریزِ روزافزونِ نام‌واژگانِ بیگانه، بهویژه انگلیسی، می‌‌گوید. از خوانش و بررسیِ این جستارها برمی‌آید که فرهنگستان زبان و ادب فارسی برجسته‌‌سازی برنامۀ «واژه‌‌گزینی علمی» از ره...
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