Minoo Alemi
West Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University
[ 1 ] - Native and Non-native Teachers’ Pragmatic Criteria for Rating Request Speech Act: The Case of American and Iranian EFL Teachers
Abstract: Over the last few decades, several aspects of pragmatic knowledge and its effects on teaching and learning a second language (L2) have been explored in many studies. However, among various studies, the area of interlanguage pragmatic (ILP) assessment is quite novel issue and many features of it have remained unnoticed. As ILP assessment has received more atten...
[ 2 ] - Native EFL Raters’ Criteria in Assessing the Speech Act of Complaint: The Case of American and British EFL Teachers
Despite the importance of interlanguage pragmatic rating (ILP) in the second language teaching and learning context, scant attention has been devoted to it. This study aims to investigate native EFL teachers’ major criteria in assessing the speech act of complaint produced by Iranian EFL learners. To fulfill this end, two groups of experienced native raters, including American (n=47) and Britis...
[ 3 ] - Native and Non-native English Teachers’ Rating Criteria and Variation in the Assessment of L2 Pragmatic Production: The Speech Act of Compliment
Pragmatic assessment and consistency in rating are among the subject matters which are still in need of more profound investigations. The importance of the issue is highlighted when remembering that inconsistency in ratings would surely damage the test fairness issue in assessment and lead to much diversity in ratings. Our principal concern in this study was observing the criteria that American...
[ 4 ] - A Discourse-Historical Analysis of Two Iranian Presidents’ Speeches at the UN General Assembly
The present study compared speeches by Iranian President Rouhani, following a moderate political ideology, and his predecessor Ahmadinejad, a seemingly conservative/ principalist president, at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly. The discourse-historical approach was employed to analyze the two corpora. Other discoursal features such as the representation of self and identity were also inc...
[ 5 ] - ماهیت و منطق برنامه درسی رباتیک تربیتی در دوره ابتدایی
همزمان با تغییرات گسترده در اجتماع، استفاده از فناوری نیز گسترش یافته است. برای آماده‌سازی و مقابله مؤثر دانش‌آموزان با تحولات قرن حاضر، نیازمند طراحی و تدوین برنامه‌های درسی ویژه هستیم. رباتیک تربیتی، فناوری آموزشی پیشرفته‌ای است که مستلزم توجه ویژه است. در دهه گذشته، رباتیک تربیتی به مثابه یک ابزار ارزشمند در راستای شکوفاسازی و پرورش مهارت‌های شناختی/ اجتماعی دانش‌آموزان و پشتیبانی از یادگیری...
[ 6 ] - Syntactic Feature of EFL Speakers’ Conference Presentations: The Case of Passive Voice and Pseudo-Cleft
Acquiring proficiency in academic genres is a key factor in research community. Among various genres in academic discourse communities, spoken genre, especially Conference Presentations (CPs), play a crucial role in research communities, though investigation on this important genre is in its infancy or is relatively under-researched. Therefore, the present study aims to shed light on the import...
[ 7 ] - Evaluation of High School English Course Books in Iran: Task Types in Focus
This study sought to examine the type and frequency of tasks in the Iranian high school English course books (Prospect 1, 2, 3 & English Book 1, 2, 3). The corpus was analyzed based on Nunan’s (1999) framework composed of five main task types, namely cognitive, interpersonal, linguistics, affective, and creative. To this end, the whole content of the aforementioned course books went through con...
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