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[ 1 ] - آموزش انگلیسی به عنوان زبان دوم به کودکان اختلال طیف اوتیسم با عملکرد بالا

مقدمه: با افزایش آمار افرادی که هر روزه پس از بررسی های لازم در طیف اوتیسم قرار میگیرند، لزوم فراهم آوردن شرایط آموزشی در زمینه های مختلف از جمله یادگیری زبان ها نیز بیشتر احساس میشود. هدف از پژوهش حاضر، آموزش زبان انگلیسی به عنوان زبان دوم به کودکان اختلال طیف اوتیسم با عملکرد بالا میباشد. روش: این مطالعه کیفی و موردی به بررسی تاثیر مداخله یا روش تدریس یک به یک رفتاری و شناختی در آموزش زبان دو...

[ 2 ] - Fostering EFL Teacher Enthusiasm through Vision Enhancement and its Relationship with Students’ Attitude and Effort

Teacher enthusiasm and its impact on students’ learning and emotions have remained unnoticed in the realm of second language learning and teaching. This study aimed at exploring the possibility of boosting language teacher enthusiasm and its potential relationship with language learners’ effort and attitude for language learning. In order to foster teacher enthusiasm, the highly novel concept o...

[ 3 ] - Persian Speakers’ Recognition of English Relative Clauses: The Effects of Enhanced Input vs. Explicit Feedback Types

Despite consensus in focus on form (FOF) instruction over the facilitative role of noticing, controversy has not quelled over ways of directing EFL learners’ attention towards formal features via implicit techniques like input-enhancement or explicit metacognitive feedback and interactive peer-editing on the output they produce. This quasi-experimental study investigated the impact of input enh...

[ 4 ] - On Situating the Stance of Estrogen in the Acquisition and Recall of L2 Lexical Items: A Biological Look

The present study examined whether the advantage of females on L2 vocabulary recall and acquisition is partly as a result of estrogen secretion or not. In this regard, through volunteer and convenience sampling 15 intermediate EFL female participants aged between 23-31 were selected from the subject pool of 55 participants. The participants were studying at Iranian Language Center located in Ba...

[ 5 ] - THE IMPACT OF USING COMPUTER-AIDED ARGUMENT MAPPING (CAAM) ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS’ WRITING SELF-REGULATION

The present study was conducted to investigate the impact of using computer-aided argument mapping (CAAM) on the improvement of Iranian learners’ writing self-regulation. To this end, 90 participants out of 127 senior university students in English translation were selected after administrating language proficiency test, as well as an essay writing test for the purpose of homogenizing the learn...

[ 6 ] - The Relative Effectiveness of Input and Output-oriented Tasks with Different Involvement Loads on the Receptive and Productive Vocabulary Knowledge of Iranian EFL Learners

Framed in a cognitive approach to task-supported L2 vocabulary learning, the present study used a pedagogical approach to investigate the relative effectiveness of tasks with different involvement loads on the vocabulary knowledge of Iranian EFL learners. The goal was to investigate the way that the construct of involvement load is related to the Input Hypothesis (Krashen, 1985) and the Output ...

[ 7 ] - جایگاه تفکر نقادانه در نظام آموزشی ایران

چکیده در نظام های آموزشی سراسر دنیا، انگاره آموزش تفکر در سطوح عالیتر از یک سو و استفاده از مطالب درسی به عنوان ابزاری برای تفکر از سوی دیگر سبب شده تا تفکر نقادانه به عنوان یک مفهوم بنیادین و یک آرمان آموزشی مطرح شود. انجام پژوهش به منظور فهم اینکه تفکر نقادانه به عنوان آرمانی آموزشی تا چه میزان واقعیت آموزشی پیدا کرده از اهمیت بسزایی برخوردار است. این پژوهش بر آنست تا جایگاه تفکر نقادانه در ...

[ 8 ] - Iranian EFL Learners’ Perception of the Efficacy and Affordance of Activity Theory-based Computer Assisted Language Learning in Writing Achievement

Second language writing instruction has been greatly influenced by the growing importance of technology and the recent shift of paradigm from a cognitive to a social orientation in second language acquisition (Lantolf & Thorne, 2006). Therefore, the applications of computer assisted language learning and activity theory have been suggested as a promising framework for writing studies. The prese...

[ 9 ] - Fostering EFL Teacher Enthusiasm through Vision Enhancement and its Relationship with Students’ Attitude and Effort

Teacher enthusiasm and its impact on students’ learning and emotions have remained unnoticed in the realm of second language learning and teaching. This study aimed at exploring the possibility of boosting language teacher enthusiasm and its potential relationship with language learners’ effort and attitude for language learning. In order to foster teacher enthusiasm, the highly novel concept o...

[ 10 ] - Perceptual Learning Style Preferences and Computer-Assisted Writing Achievement within the Activity Theory Framework

Learning styles are considered among the significant factors that aid instructors in deciding how well their students learn a second or foreign language (Oxford, 2003). Although this issue has been accepted broadly in educational psychology,further research is required to examine the relationship between learning styles and language learning skills. Thus, the present study was carried out to in...

[ 11 ] - The Effects of Systemic-Theoretical Instruction on Developing Iranian EFL Learners’ Explicit and Implicit Knowledge of Tense-Aspect System

This study aimed to investigate the effects of Systemic Theoretical Instruction (STI), grounded in Socio-cultural Theory and proposed by Gal’perin, on developing Iranian EFL learners’ knowledge of English tense-aspect system. To this end, two low-intermediate classes, including 24 and 21 language learners aged between 12-19, were taught the distinction between simple past and present perfect te...

[ 12 ] - The Effect of High School English Teachers' Awareness of Pedagogical Competence on Students' Learning Achievements

The study examined the impact of high school English teachers’ awareness of pedagogical competence on student learning. A psychometric measurement instrument of English language teachers' pedagogical competence (ELTPC) was first developed through factor analysis with 320 high school teachers in Guilan, Northern Iran. Based on the developed instrument, 36 teachers were divided into two groups of...