To produce an adequate translation, language students are required to learn varieties of language features including syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Considering the curriculum language learners are face with, one can claim that almost all language students in Iran are taught these features in their academic settings including linguistic courses. Yet, there are some aspects of language which a...

In recent years, multilingual practices like mediation and translanguaging have found their way into additional language pedagogy. This is due to the recognition that users do not store or use in isolation, but rather build up a repertoire which all languages are connected. Multilingual particularly relevant for university programmes translation interpreting students trained work environments m...

This paper begins as an initial rejoinder to the ideas expressed by Ross (2000) in The Promise and Perils of E-Learning: A critical look at the new technology. In his article, Ross supports the traditional practices of pedagogy at the primary school level—face-to-face pedagogy— and then critiques what he describes as a ‘fetishisation’ of technological pedagogy—a fetishisation seen in the increa...

present study is conducted to measure the effect of obligation to religious functions on pedagogy employees’ organizational commitment in shahriar. for this purpose, the variables of two aspects namely “worship” and “ethics” are considered as the constituents of obligation to religious functions and their impact on employees’ organizational commitment is studied. two questionnaires were used to...

Pedagogy Transparency is a quality driven concept built from the junction of the new pedagogy movement, based on Vygotsky ́s social interactionist theory, and the notion of information disclosure. Pedagogy Transparency aims the disclosure to students of how they are being taught and why, as to improve their awareness about the learning process. We present a study conducted to evaluate three peda...

although university efl students represent a wide array of social and cultural identities, their multiple and diverse identities are not usually considered in foreign language classrooms. this qualitative case study attempted to examine identity conflicts experienced by iranian efl learners at the university context. to this end, two shiraz university students' identities were investigated. sem...

Humans are adapted to spontaneously transfer relevant cultural knowledge to conspecifics and to fast-learn the contents of such teaching through a human-specific social learning system called 'pedagogy' (Csibra & Gergely, 2006). Pedagogical knowledge transfer is triggered by specific communicative cues (such as eye-contact, contingent reactivity, the prosodic pattern of 'motherese', and being a...