Hossein Barati
دانشیار 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 ] - Observation and Feedback of Content Specialists versus General English Teachers: Suggestions to Make Optimal English for Specific Purposes Courses
There is a growing interest among the higher education principals and policy makers to improve teacher evaluation methods and more important than that to use the evaluation data. A number of research studies implied the ineffective instruction of ESP courses in Iran (Atai, 2002; Eslami, 2005; Hayati, 2008; Ahmadi, 2008; Sherkatolabbasi & Mahdavi, 2012; Boniadi, Ghojazadeh & Rahmatvand, 2013). T...
[ 3 ] - 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,...
[ 4 ] - Gender-based DIF across the Subject Area: A Study of the Iranian National University Entrance Exam
This study aimed at investigating differential item functioning (DIF) on the Special English Test of the Iranian National University Entrance Exam (INUEE). The effect of gender and subject area was taken into account. The study utilized one-parameter IRT model with a sample of 36000 students who sat for the INUEE Special English Test in 2004 and/or 2005. The findings confirmed the presence of D...
[ 5 ] - طبقه‌بندی آشکار معانی غیرمعرفتی فعلهای وجهی توانستن، شدن و بایستن بر پایه‌ی الگوی معناشناختی-کاربردشناختی دپراتره
در این مطالعه ابتدا برخی از دسته‌بندی‌های محققان از معانی غیرمعرفتی توانستن، شدن و بایستن را به‌صورت اجمالی مورد بررسی قرار‌دادیم و مشاهده‌نمودیم که اغلب آنها، که عمدتاً از چارچوب پالمر پیروی‌کرده‌اند، معیارهای آشکاری را برای تفکیک و طبقه‌بندی معانی غیرمعرفتی این فعل‌ها از هم ارائه‌نکرده‌اند و با اتخاذ رویکردی کمابیش معنایی-نحوی بیشتر به توصیف و ارائه‌ی مثال برای نشان‌دادن معانی و توجیه دسته...
[ 6 ] - Test-taking Strategies and EFL Learners’ Performance on the Reading Sub-test of Iranian Universities PhD Entrance Exam
The present study was an attempt to investigate the validity of the English section of Iranian Universities PhD Entrance Exam in TEFL. To this end, 15 EFL learners from university of Isfahan who were in their last semester of that MA education were invited to contribute to the study. A group of 5 university lecturers were also asked to support the study as expert judges. A TOEFL reading paper w...
[ 7 ] - Test-taking Strategies and EFL Learners’ Performance on the Reading Sub-test of Iranian Universities PhD Entrance Exam
The present study was an attempt to investigate the validity of the English section of Iranian Universities PhD Entrance Exam in TEFL. To this end, 15 EFL learners from university of Isfahan who were in their last semester of that MA education were invited to contribute to the study. A group of 5 university lecturers were also asked to support the study as expert judges. A TOEFL reading paper w...
[ 8 ] - Using Multiple-Variable Matching to Identify EFL Ecological Sources of Differential Item Functioning
Context is a vague notion with numerous building blocks making language test scores inferences quite convoluted. This study has made use of a model of item responding that has striven to theorize the contextual infrastructure of differential item functioning (DIF) research and help specify the sources of DIF. Two steps were taken in this research: first, to identify DIF by gender grouping via l...
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