Saeed Ketabi
University of Isfahan, Islamic Republic of Iran
[ 1 ] - Audience awareness of Persian learners of English writing: Towards a model of task-oriented strategies
Persian learners of English often avoid attending to audience considerations, which brings them lower scores. The present study was conducted in a major university in Iran to help Persian learners develop a sense of audience awareness in writing. Thirty five Persian students of English were trained with a focus on process-oriented instruction. The intended task was a...
[ 2 ] - Evaluating an English Teacher Training Course for Iranian Private Language Institutes' Teachers
Initial teacher training courses are of utmost importance because they are the first entry point to the teacher professional career and determine the quality and quantity of teachers. Despite the importance of initial teacher training courses and their influence on the professional lives of teacher applicants, English teachers, and language learners, there is a dearth of research evaluating the...
[ 3 ] - Effect of Autonomous Noticing Activities on EFL Learners’ Grammatical Accuracy
This study focused on the effect of transcribing task, as a noticing activity, on EFL learners’ grammatical accuracy. For 20 sessions, oral discussion tasks were assigned to 2 intermediate adult EFL classrooms, with 1 class serving as the control group and the other as the experimental group. For this purpose, the learners were divided into groups of 3 or 4 in each class. Learners in both group...
[ 4 ] - Reflective Teaching through Videotaping in an English Teaching Course in Iran
The purpose of this study was to investigate videotaping as a strategy for EFL teachers’ reflective teaching. To this end, eight participants were selected from a language institute in Iran and were under investigation for over a period of one month and a half. The data were triangulated from different sources: videotaping; self-reflection sheets; and semi-structured interviews. The analysis of...
[ 5 ] - Autonomously Noticing Incorrect Language Use: Does it Improve EFL Learners' Grammatical Accuracy?
Promoting communicative interactions, while simultaneously drawing students’ attention to language form, is considered as a potentially significant area of research in second language acquisition. This study focuses on the effect of transcribing task, as an autonomous noticing activity, on intermediate and advanced EFL learners' grammatical accuracy. The study was conducted in two advanced and ...
[ 6 ] - Socio-cultural Patterns in Iranian High School Textbooks from the View point of Motivation for Research
Introduction One very important aspect of any textbook is its content in terms of the motivation it creates in the readers. This is specifically true in EFL textbooks where the learners need more than just content since content-wise, such books are not very much different from the learners’ world knowledge level. That is why material developers working in this area are usually consciously choos...
[ 7 ] - بررسی تطبیقی سیر تاریخی نمود جنسیت در کتاب‌های درسی فارسی، انگلیسی، و فرانسه در ایران در یک بازه 70 ساله (1391-1316) با رویکرد میان‌رشته‌ای
یکی از مسائل مهم فرهنگی در جوامع، موضوع جنسیت است که نمود آن و نگرش در مورد آن در فرهنگ‌ها و جوامع مختلف، شباهت‌ها و تفاوت‌های بنیادینی دارد. بررسی شباهت‌ها و تفاوت‌های بین‌فرهنگی می‌تواند به شناخت بهتر فرهنگ‌ها کمک کند. نهادهای آموزشی در جوامع نیز به‌عنوان ارکان تأثیرگذار در فرهنگ، به‌طور مستقیم یا غیرمستقیم، از این مسئله تأثیر می‌پذیرند. در این‌میان، کتاب‌های درسی به‌عنوان یکی از ابزارهای مهم...