Masoomeh Estaji
5th floor, Department of English Language, Faculty of Foreign Languages, South Allameh St, Modiriat Fly-over, Chamran Highway, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran
[ 1 ] - The Interplay of Emotional Intelligence, EFL Students’ Gender, and their Writing Performance: A Correlational Study of Iranian University Students
This study was an attempt to examine the relationship between EFL students’ EI, their gender, and writing performance. To this end, 30 female and 27 male English B.A. students, studying at Allameh Tabataba’i University, participated in this study. After checking the homogeneity of the participants through a TOEFL test, Bar-On EQ-i questionnaire (Bar-On, 1997) was administered in order to measur...
[ 2 ] - Investigating the Impact of Collaborative and Static Assessment on the Iranian EFL Students’ Reading comprehension, Critical Thinking, and Metacognitive Strategies of Reading
This study was aimed at investigating the effect of collaborative assessment, as compared to that of static assessment, on the EFL learners’ reading comprehension, metacognitive strategies, and critical thinking. In this mixed-methods research design study, 62 intermediate EFL learners out of a population of 79 English language learners, were randomly selected and divided into two groups of exp...
[ 3 ] - Examining the Generic Features of Thesis Acknowledgments: A Case of Iranian MA Graduate Students Majoring in Teaching to Speakers of Other Languages (AZFA) and TEFL
Thesis acknowledgement is a written genre in which MA graduate students offer their gratitude to individuals, who have contributed to the completion of their study. The aim of the current study was to examine the thesis acknowledgements written by Iranian MA students in the field of Persian Language Teaching to Non-Persian Speakers (Amouzeshe Zaban e Farsi be Kharejian, AZFA) and TEFL in terms ...
[ 4 ] - On the Relationship between the Implementation of Formative Assessment Strategies and Iranian EFL Teachers’ Self-Efficacy: Do Gender and Experience Make a Difference?
This study sought to examine the relationship between the use of formative assessment strategies and the Iranian EFL teachers’ sense of self-efficacy. Moreover, this study investigated the relationships and interactions between the EFL teachers’ use of formative assessment strategies, their gender, level of experience, and sense of self-efficacy. This is a descriptive ex post facto design study...
[ 5 ] - رویکرد مفهومی- نقشی در آموزش زبان فارسی به غیرفارسی‌زبانان
یادگیری نقش‌های زبانی و نحوهی اجرای آنها، از جمله اهداف مهم در تدریس زبان خارجی/دوم است. از آن‌جا که تاکنون پژوهش چندانی جهت شناسایی نقش‌ها و مفاهیم زبان فارسی صورت نگرفته است، ضرورت داشت که پس از شناسایی صورت‌های بی‌نشانِ پنج نقش پرکاربرد زبانی در موقعیت‌های مختلف، از آنها در تدریس زبان فارسی به غیرفارسی‌زبانان استفاده نماییم. از این‌رو، پس از جمع‌آوری داده‌های لازم از مکالمات صورت گرفته بین ...
[ 6 ] - Exploring Teachers’ Perception of Intercultural Communicative Competence and their Practices for Teaching Culture in EFL Classrooms
This study aimed to examine the effect of EFL teachers’ level of instruction, education, and experience on their perceptions of Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) on the one hand and the effect of teachers’ ICC perceptions on their practices of teaching culture on the other. The participants of this study were 111 EFL teachers (59 males, 52 females), selected through purposive samplin...
[ 7 ] - کنش افتراقی جنسیتی سوالات آزمون کنکور سراسری کارشناسی ارشد رشته‌ی آموزش زبان انگلیسی در ایران: مقایسه ی روش های آماری رگرسیون لجیستیک و منتل-هنسزل
این مطالعه قصد داشت تا در آزمون بزرگی چون کنکور کارشناسی ارشد آموزش زبان انگلیسی در ایران، سوالاتی که حاوی کنش افتراقی جنسیتی باشند را با استفاده از دو نمونه از کاربردی‌ترین و مفیدترین روش‌ها (رگرسیون لجیستیک و منتل-هنسزل) پیدا کند. به علاوه، یک تحلیل محتوایی از سوالات پیدا شده‌ی حاوی کنش افتراقی انجام شد تا منابع زبانی چنین سو‌گیری‌هایی مشخص شوند. داده‌ها از پایگاه داده‌های سازمان سنجش ایران ...
[ 8 ] - The Use of Self-Repair Strategies in Classroom Conversations: Does the Teacher’s Level of Reflection Make a Difference?
To better understand the pattern of language use and classroom interactions, this sequential mixed-methods study investigated the teachers’ use of self-repair strategies based on their level of reflection. To this end, 33 Iranian EFL teachers were selected from various institutions in Tehran. Data for the quantitative phase were collected from the reflectivity questionnaire developed by Akbari,...
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