Hiwa Weisi
Shiraz University
[ 1 ] - Bilinguality vs. Monolinguality among Kalhuri Kurdish Speakers: Gender, Social Class and English Language Achievement
Today in multilingual contexts, many parents prefer to rear their children in the dominant language rather than in their mother tongue. This phenomenon is widespread among native speakers of Kalhuri dialect of the Kurdish language in the multilingual context of Iran, too. Nevertheless, some studies have evidenced the privilege of bilinguals in learning an additional language though some others ...
[ 2 ] - فرسایش و تغییرات زبانی در کردی کلهری ایلامی های مقیم تهران
یکی از ویژگیهای بارز جهان امروز، جابهجایی و مهاجرت گستردة افراد و گروه‌ها به نقاط دیگر است. این جابهجاییها پیامدهای گوناگونی به‌دنبال دارند که ازجملة آنها میتوان به پدیدة برخورد زبان‌ها اشاره کرد. برخورد و تماس زبانی می‌تواند به دوزبانگی و حتّی چندزبانگی افراد یا جوامع زبانی مهاجر بیانجامد یا در گذر زمان زمینة فرسایش، تغییر یا حتّی مرگ زبان اوّل (زبان مادری) مهاجران را فراهم آورد. ...
[ 3 ] - Challenges of Conducting Qualitative Inquiry in the Iranian ELT Higher Education Context: Ph.D. Students’ and Faculty Members’ Voices
This study aims at investigating the challenges of conducting qualitative research (QLR) from Iranian ELT (English Language Teaching) Ph.D. students’ and ELT faculty members’ viewpoints in the Iranian higher education context. The participants of the study consisted of 100 Ph.D. students majoring in ELT and 50 ELT faculty members. The study followed a mixed-method appro...
[ 4 ] - Deconstruction of Cultural, Racial and Gender Dominance in Iranian Senior High School EFL Textbooks
Course books play a crucial role in educational process and are believed to be the pivotal ingredient of language teaching. Every new textbook needs to be analyzed in order to reach its best. Hence this study aims to analyze three Iranian English course books to reveal how various cultures are shown via the course books characters’ race, nationality, gender, and intercultural communications. Th...
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