Naser Rashidi

[ 1 ] - Teaching Critical Thinking through a Dialogic Approach: The infusion model

Abstract Recent interest in teaching thinking has lead different researchers to examine different approaches in education to find effective methods and approaches for teaching thinking. Through a qualitative case analysis, this study attempted to identify the effects of the infusion model of teaching thinking implemented through a dialogic approach on a PhD candidate’s critical thinking skills....

[ 2 ] - A comparison of Iranian EFL vs. non-EFL teachers’ “knowing” of learner autonomy

Investigating the “knowing”, a module of the KARDS model proposed by Kumaravadivelu (2012) for teacher education, of Iranian teachers of learner autonomy, this study is an attempt to illuminate some of the yet unexplored areas of teachers’ various types of knowledge of learner autonomy. Furthermore, it attempts to illustrate how Iranian Non-EFL teachers’ knowing affects their practices with reg...

[ 3 ] - Iranian EFL Learners’ Motivation Construction: Integrative Motivation Revisited

Although Gardner and his associates’ work was most influential in the field of L2 motivation, from the early 1990s onwards, their work has been criticized for several reasons. Some researchers claimed that integrative and instrumental orientations were no longer able to convey the complexity of the L2 motivation construct. To examine this complexity, the present study attempted to investigate t...

[ 4 ] - Disciplinary Acculturation: A Comparative Study of Intradiscourse Cycles of English and Persian Introductory Textbooks of Sociology and Linguistics

The present study aimed at investigating the specific discourse cycles of someintroductory textbooks across disciplines and languages to see to what extent theyacculturate students into the new subjects. To this end, 2 well-established and mostlyused English and Persian introductory textbooks in sociology and 2 other wellestablishedEnglish and Persian introductory textbooks in linguistics were ...

[ 5 ] - TEXTUAL AND INTER-TEXTUAL ANALYSES OF IRANIAN EFL UNDERGRADUATES’ TYPES OF ENGLISH READING TOWARDS DEVELOPING A CAREFUL READING FRAMEWORK

This study investigated textual and inter-textual reading of a group of Iranian EFL undergraduates’ careful English reading types. In this research, Khalifa and Weir’s (2009) reading framework was used to propose a more inclusive aspect of a careful reading framework and the reading construct for instructional and assessment goals. The participants of this study were B.A. students of English Tr...

[ 6 ] - Discursive motivation construction: A case of two Iranian EFL learners

Investigating the discursive construction of EFL learners’ motivation is a relatively new area of inquiry. Hence, there is a dearth of research into how foreign language learners’ discourse mediates their motivation construction. This study attempted to examine the discursive construction of two (one male and one female) Iranian EFL learners’ motivation in Shiraz University, Iran by examining t...

[ 7 ] - Elicitation, Recast, and Meta-Linguistic Feedback in Form-Focused Exchanges: Effects of Feedback Modality on Multimedia Grammar Instruction

This research explores the effects of three computer-mediated feedback modalities, that is, elicitation, recast, and meta-linguistics, on the learning of English participial, gerund, and infinitival phrases among Iranian intermediate-level EFL learners. The overriding focus of the present study was to investigate whether different types of feedback given through form-focused computer-human exch...

[ 8 ] - تحلیل گفتمان انتقادی کتاب فارسی امروز برای دانشجویان خارجی بر اساس چارچوب تحلیلی ون دایک و ون لیوون

انتخاب کتاب درسی مناسب نقش بسزایی در فرایند آموزش زبان به‌ویژه آموزش زبان دوم دارد. برای انتخاب کتاب درسی می‌توان به شیوه‌های مختلفی اقدام کرد. در این میان رویکرد تحلیل گفتمان انتقادی در سال‌های اخیر بسیار مورد استفاده تحلیل‌گران قرار گرفته است. در این روش به بررسی متون آموزشی پرداخته می‌شود تا دست‌اندرکاران امر آموزش در دست‌یابی به ایدئولوژی‌های استفاده شده در این کتاب‌ها بهتر یاری شوند. پژوه...

[ 9 ] - تحلیل انتقادی گفتمان کتاب Reader’s Choice بر اساس چهارچوب هاج و کرس

تحقیق حاضر به تحلیل گفتمان انتقادی کتاب “Reader’s Choice” می‌پردازد. هدف این تحقیق بررسی میزان پنهان کاری و جهت‌‌گیریهای ایدئولوژیکی درکتاب مذکور است؛ و این که آیا محتوای این کتاب برای متنی درسی مناسب است یا خیر؟ به این منظور،چهار متن درک مطلب از کتاب نامبرده به طور اتفاقی انتخاب شده است. این متون عبارت‌اند از:“the midnight visitor”، "sonar for the Blind"، "pockety women unite?" و " the 800th l...

[ 10 ] - Teaching Critical Thinking through a Dialogic Approach: The infusion model

Abstract Recent interest in teaching thinking has lead different researchers to examine different approaches in education to find effective methods and approaches for teaching thinking. Through a qualitative case analysis, this study attempted to identify the effects of the infusion model of teaching thinking implemented through a dialogic approach on a PhD candidate’s critical thinking skills....

[ 11 ] - On the Role of Willingness to Communicate and Critical Thinking in Receptive/Productive Lexical Knowledge of Gifted and Non-Gifted EFL Learners

This study investigated the receptive and productive vocabulary command of learners based on their willingness to communicate (WTC) and critical thinking skill. The study also aimed to compare gifted and non-gifted learners in terms of the above-mentioned variables. To this end, 112 gifted and non-gifted Iranian EFL learners were picked out and given four instruments (W...