Ali Rahimi

Suleyman Demirel University (SDU)

This study sought to elucidate the challenges of critical literacy practice in the Iranian context. The objectives were twofold: (a) to find out which challenges teachers and students face in the practice of critical literacy and (b) to explore the state of critical literacy in language education. To this end, a sample of 12 English teachers and 12...

This study sought to look at the relationship between locus of control (LOC) orientation and academic achievement (ACH) of university-age English Foreign Language (EFL) learners. LOC is the extent to which individuals attribute their achievements either to external influences such as fate or to their own efforts. The sample for the study included 1...

Abstract This paper describes how computer-generated argument mapping has been successfully incorporated in an English for Academic Purposes program to train Indonesian students en route to postgraduate studies in Australia, how to construct evidence-based logical reasoning in their English academic writing and also to critically follow the flow of...

Abstract This article was launched to investigate if learning from an English for General Academic Purposes (EGAP) writing course transfers to other writing contexts. The study focused on the issue of transfer across disciplines, tasks, and two languages (English and Persian). The data were collected through interviews and writing samples from the...

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has become a very influential academic research activity across subjects in social, political, educational, and linguistic sciences. It scrutinizes the power relations, ideological manipulations, and hegemony. This paper is an attempt to explain how a single reality, that is the death of the Pope, John Paul II, is...

The present research aimed to investigate the problems of teaching and learning English in middle schools in Esfahan, Iran. These problems are associated with the learner, teacher, textbook, syllabus, and language policy. The instrument used was a self-constructed likert scale questionnaire. All the variables had a hand in the problems among which...

The theories and application of translation have been investigated primarily from the perspective of researchers, accredited translators, translation teachers, and trainers. This study examines the lenses through which translation students are motivated to embark on the journey of translation. Whereas translation has long been considered to be an a...

Action research (AR) and reflective thinking (RT) can enhance learning since both processes provide students with the opportunities to step back and think about how they actually solve problems. While there is a robust academic inquiry on reflection practices and AR in the educational setting, investigating learners’ reflections through AR practice...

Background: Gastric cancer (GC) is one of the conspicuous causes of cancer-related death worldwide. Considering the mounting incidence of this cancer in developing countries such as Iran, determining the influential factors on the survival of involved patients is noteworthy. Hence, we aimed to ascertain the survival rates and the prognostic factor...

The study of color aesthetics should always consider color interactions. This study aimed to understand the color application in southern India by identifying it in the cityscapes and analyzing its characteristics. Field observations, a survey, and interviews were undertaken. An online questionnaire was administered to 39 undergraduate and master’s...

Peoples' experiences with their bodies play an essential role in the emergence of figurative thought. Hence, body-organ terms as a mapping process between the two domains are closely connected to the speakers' conceptual system. This study investigates the conceptualization of 'foot' in as many as 10000 Persian proverbs and idioms in six related Ir...

TEFL teachers and scholars acknowledge the unique characteristics of listening skills and the vital role it plays in language learning and communication. The present study seeks to empirically investigate if partial dictation versus dictogloss has any significant effect on listening comprehension of Iranian EFL learners. Participants include 60 mal...

Parental involvement in learning and teaching , home-school conferencing, home-based involvement, school-based involvement, students' achievement, high school education

This study aimed to investigate the criteria considered by Iranian publishers for admitting translators. In order to achieve this purpose, the qualifications developed by Samuelson-Brown were employed to design a 19-item Likert scale questionnaire on a continuum from ‘strongly agree’ to ‘strongly disagree’. Some of the qualifications mentio...

The study presented here is an attempt to investigate the role of bilingualism in EFL students’ reading comprehension proficiency, and to that end six classes of three high schools were randomly chosen. These high schools were Soghomonian (Armenian bilinguals), Taleghani (Turkish bilinguals) and Ershad (Persian monolinguals). They were given a qu...

Screen cast as a viable digital tool to enhance vocabulary learning and retention is quite rare in many language contexts in Iran. It was stipulated that the application of different gloss types as a new pedagogical technique could be of value for this purpose. Therefore, the present study aimed at investigating the effect of different gloss types...

The unique characteristics of the listening skill and the vital role they play in language learning and communication do not receive the attention they deserve and the situation is worsened in EFL contexts due to lack of communication in everyday context. Given this, the present study was an attempt to empirically investigate if partial dictation v...

This study aimed at examining the effectiveness of computer-assisted flipped instruction on the writing ability of upper-intermediate Iranian EFL learners and their attitudes toward it. A mixed-method approach was used. A quantitative method enjoying the quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design was used. Twenty participants were selected based on...

The amazing growth of online services has caused an information explosion issue. Text summarisation is condensing the text into a small version and preserving its overall concept. Text summarisation is an important way to extract significant information from documents and offer that information to the user in an abbreviated form while preserving it...

It is simplistic to believe that second language learning can be accomplished without proper acquisition of the second language culture. This study aimed at investigating the feasibility of promoting Iranian EFL teachers’ intercultural sensitivity through training. To do so, 35 teachers, who proved to be homogenous, were randomly selected from amon...

The ways in which speakers of a language think and behave are shaped by their language and it , in turn, constructs their linguistic repertoire. In this article, the authors clarify the nature of this relationship and manifest the misconceptions and erroneous beliefs held by EFL theorist and practitioners. Various ways in which language and culture...

This study aimed to assess the attitudes and perceptions of EFL students toward the use of CALL programs and their perceived view on an online writing system that was developed in the present study by means of a questionnaire as well as an asynchronous discussion forum. An online writing system was developed and a sample of 30 English-as-a-Foreign-...

There are many factors that affect information processing in listening comprehension- phonetic and phonological features as well as factors working at supra segmental level, i.e. word stress, intonation, tone and pitch are among the main elements that affect oral receptive skill. Moreover, we should add non-linguistic and paralinguistic items like...

Language is a tool for communication, a plethora of teaching methodologies has been suggested to foster students' academic competencies. Using technology has been introduced to help teachers and students enhance their educational practices. In the new global network, it is an inescapable fact that a massive development has been witnessed in IT with...

This study aimed to assess the attitudes and perceptions of English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) students towards the use of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) programs and their perceived view on an online writing system that was developed in the present study by means of a questionnaire as well as an asynchronous discussion forum. An onlin...

This study aims to explore the effects of implementing a CALL framework on the students' perceptions of their communication classroom environments. The What Is Happening In This Class? (WIHIC) questionnaire was distributed twice among 34 (F=14 and M=20) Iranian EFL students, the first time after a ten-session-long regular no-tech communication clas...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the language of the main female character called Eliza in the play 'Pygmalion' by Bernard Shaw. This analysis is done by applying the transitivity system, which is part of English linguist Halliday's (1985; 1994) systemic-functional grammar. According to the transitivity system, verbs can be classified i...

Immigration is considered as one of the recent issues in the world today. Many problems naturally arise from this phenomenon for both the host countries and the homelands of immigrants. The aim of the present study is recognizing the incentives of Iranians for immigration. For this purpose, by considering the research literature (the push and pull...

The aim of this study was to investigate adaptation challenges of novice EFL teachers during induction period in Iraqi Kurdistan. Through a questionnaire prepared in a cross-sectional descriptive design, the data were collected from 20 novice EFL teachers teaching in four provinces of the Kurdistan region. The outcomes of the study presented that n...

Message from Editor Dear Readers, It is a great honor for us to publish 7th volume, 2nd issue of Global Journal of Foreign Language Teaching (GJFLT).

Message from Editor Dear Readers, It is a great honor for us to publish 7th volume, 4th issue of Global Journal of Foreign Language Teaching (GJFLT). Global Journal of Foreign Language Teaching (GJFLT) welcomes original empirical investigations and comprehensive literature review articles focusing on foreign language teaching and topics related to...

Message from Editor Dear Readers, It is a great honor for us to publish 7th volume, 3rd issue of Global Journal of Foreign Language Teaching (GJFLT). Global Journal of Foreign Language Teaching (GJFLT) welcomes original empirical investigations and comprehensive literature review articles focusing on foreign language teaching and topics related to...

The article offers a cognitive subject-oriented perspective on language and its acquisition with a focus on grammar. By sketching out the cognitive mechanisms of languaging ‘conceptual complexes’ or mental categories through grammar means, the authors endeavour to define and formulate their semantic representations which are supposed to meet three...

Dear Readers, It is a great honor for us to publish seventh volume, first issue of Global Journal of Foreign Language Teaching (GJFLT). Global Journal of Foreign Language Teaching (GJFLT) welcomes original empirical investigations and comprehensive literature review articles focusing on foreign language teaching and topics related to linguistics. T...

In the postmodern world of contradictions and paradoxes, poetry can be the fusion of fact and fiction, science, fantasy, abstract, and concrete phenomena. It can be the combination of positive and negative emotions, irresistible enchantment with hope and an equally intense fascination by cynicism and skepticism; the ironic symbiosis of conflicts an...

The significant role of the media, in general, and the movies, in particular, in disseminating information and creating images of the real life by use of the language as a powerful social tool is totally irrefutable. Although critical analysis of the movie discourse is a fashionable trend among the critical discourse analysts, there is a paucity of...

University English books as the chief source of learning English are remarkably important and investigating their content quality can lead to English learning improvement. This study investigates learning objectives in ESP books for students of medicine, dentistry, and pharmacology in IUMS. Using Bloom's taxonomy, learning objectives reflected in E...

While authenticity is recurrently associated with higher motivation, the question remains how an authentic context can affect reading motivation in an EAP setting. To investigate the effect, two groups of 30 EAP students were selected through cluster random sampling as control and experimental groups. A mixed methods approach was employed to collec...

This study depicts issues of teenagers’ politeness in the age of technology and explains the role of parents' behavior in ameliorating or exacerbating their children’s impoliteness or violation of netiquette. A growing number of parents are becoming concerned that the Internet is teaching their children poor social attitudes and improper interactio...

A Copious Cornucopia of Crucial Critical Quests Critical studies focus on fairness, justice, democratic education, and student support.They are supposed to be a safeguard against muddled thinking, fallacious arguments, and illogical implausible claims, etc. The cornerstone of this project is to put forward an insight into the discursive structures...

The article offers a cognitive subject-oriented perspective on language and its acquisition with a focus on grammar. By sketching out the cognitive mechanisms of languaging 'conceptual complexes' or mental categories through grammar means, the authors endeavour to define and formulate their semantic representations which are supposed to meet three...

English is identified as a “library language” for most of the students in settings where it is neither spoken as a second language nor used as a medium of instruction. Being the language of technology and science, English reading success is one of the main requirements of many students who need to read English materials related to their specialist...

Children's gender is a very sensitive issue, intertwined with a myriad of psychophysiological and socio-political parameters. It plays an important role in determining women's status in the household and men's status within the male community at large. In some societies, there is a stigma attached to having female children. Giving birth to a baby g...

This study aimed to explore the impact of computer-assisted language learning on Iranian EFL students’ vocabulary learning. Participants of the study were 76 students – 29 males and 47 females – learning English as a foreign language in Parto, Sadr, Poyesh and Andishe Institutes in Ahvaz who were selected after taking the Nelson English Language Te...

One of the main approaches of educational systems in enhancing the teaching quality has been increasing teachers’ action research skills. The objective of this study has been identification of university teachers’ action research skills in higher education in Iran. The population under study has been all teachers at University of Kashan, Iran (283)...

Objectives This study aimed to evaluate the association of neck circumference (NC) with obesity to determine the sex-specific and age-specific optimal cut-off points of this measure in association with obesity in a national sample of the Iranian paediatric population. Methods This survey on weight disorders was conducted among a national sample of...

Background: The present study set to describe the socioeconomic inequality associated with oral hygiene behavior among Iranian pediatric population. Methods: A representative sample of 13486 school students aged 6-18 years was selected through multistage random cluster sampling method from urban and rural areas of 30 provinces in Iran. Principle...

Objective: In this paper we scrutinize the concept of null curriculum critically—what schools do not teach—and two questions were in the focus: 1) what are different kinds of null curriculum? 2) What general factors affect the null curriculum in the Iranian educational system? In each of these questions, particular attention is given in clearly def...

Immigration is considered as one of the recent issues in the world today. Many problems naturally arise from this phenomenon for both the host countries and the homelands of immigrants. The aim of the present study is recognizing the incentives of Iranians for immigration. For this purpose, by considering the research literature (the push and pull...

Given the ever-increasing trend of interconnectedness among nations on the one hand and the importance of professional development of foreign language teachers on the other, educational systems need to be reoriented to address intercultural dimension of language teaching and its interface with social and ethnic identities as its inseparable compone...

ABSTRACT The focus of education has changed from teacher-directed to learner-oriented instruction in the last few years (Bonyadi, A, et al 2012). Self-assessment, as a parameter determining learners’ language competencies, has gained considerable attention in foreign language education. It is defined by Andrue and Du(2007) as “a process of formativ...

This study seeks to fathom the nexus between the perceptions of 202 adolescent Iranian traditional classroom‐based college students of their classroom learning environments conceived as autonomy‐supportive and their self‐regulated learning. Data were culled through hand‐out questionnaires and passed through Pearson product‐moment correlation and li...

Teacher self-disclosure (TSD) as a communication behavior can influence students' learning by increasing their engagement and class participation as well as helping them establish effective interpersonal relationships. Owning to its context-sensitive and culture-dependent nature, however, TSD topics, purposes, and considerations may vary cross-cult...

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The present study investigated the integral role of religion and culture in translation of humor from English Christian short stories into Persian. The main focus was to discover how figurative languages could be transferred from source text into target text. Four humorous Christian short stories were given to ten M.A. Persian students of Translati...

Styles are those general characteristics within a person that make him/her prefer something and has tendency toward doing it. Such characteristics are cognitive styles and when used in educational situations are referred to as learning styles. Impulsivity (I) and Reflectivity (R) are two characteristics of human beings in cognitive domain. Impulsiv...

Objective: The purpose of this study is the comparison of the effectiveness of phonetic, holistic and mixed methods on reading accuracy and reading speed of students' with reading difficulties in grade two in primary school. Materials & Methods: This study is quasi experimental-comparative. The population is students with reading difficulties of th...

English is identified as a “library language” for most of the students in settings where it is neither spoken as a second language nor used as a medium of instruction. Being the language of technology and science, English reading success is one of the main requirements of many students who need to read English materials related to their specialist...

Both groups participated in the teacher-made test of vocabulary, Vocabulary Levels Test (VLT), and Word-Associates Test (WAT) as pre-test. Three ANCOVAs were run to compare the performance of experimental and control groups after the treatment period.

Dear Readers It is the great honor for us to publish fifth issue of Global Journal of Foreign Language Teaching The scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to; the following major topics as they relate to: Peer Review Process Computer assisted Language Learning, Cultural studies, Curriculum Development and Syllabus Design, Discourse Analy...

From the perspective of sociocultural theory (SCT), knowledge of an L2 is constructed and internalized through interaction. This is at odds with the "computational model" of learning that focuses on psycholinguistic processes isolated from social context. The present study was an attempt to investigate whether scaffolding, one of the key constructs...

Demotivation which is the opposite side of motivation, may affect EFL learners to a great extent and in different domains.. Learners, once motivated to learn English, lose their interest and energy so much so that learning English would turn into an irritating demanding task. The present study was conducted among Iranian EFL students studying in di...

I don’t want to breathe, nor blink lest, I lose a drop of your heavenly being next to me, Yes, no blink no breath, no pulse, and no words! Darling, Want to immerse myself in your fever, With my whole fabric in your zeal river, An emotional overdose, indeed, I have all the passion in this world, All the affection, vigor and zest on earth, This...

Yes, acrophobic mountain climber climbing liquid mountains, Legless swimmer swimming in frozen solid rivers, Blind miners working in gas mines, Drunk Lovers exchanging plastic flowers, icy hot kisses, Barbed wired touches, repulsive hugs, Cowardly lions chased by savage rabbits, Mad man writing with watery pencils, We are all walking backwar...

Don’t flog a dead horse, I blame myself for nothing, No guilt, no bad conscience, no shame, Nothing to frown on, nothing to shudder at, nothing to cringe, No emotional tremors, nor sensational seismic sensational aftershocks, You accuse yourself? You criticize yourself?

Destined to the tides of uncertainty, Fated to the storms of sad reality, Was born yesterday, am living the present, Shall be harshly catapulted into future, Seconds hastily pulled me away from the mom’s safe comforting belly, Into the rough crushing claws of time, Like a baby kangaroo thrown out of her mom’s pouch, Against her will, against...

Light is her future, pleasure her spirit, Yes, better freeze than on your knees, Better run than gone, better mount than count, Better learn than yearn, better risk than miss, Better discover than cover, better cope than under rope, better red than dead ! Welcome to the realm of light and pleasure! Pleasure and pain …

Is life a wild goose chase? Is it a sick dream? A fantasy? Or just a deceptive fallacy? Could be an error, a bizarre accidental act of lunacy? A senseless explosion of foolishness and idiocy? Or a holy orchestrated creation with phenomenal accuracy? Sinless flawless birth of man, perfect example of wisdom, insight and rationality, Paragon of...

Is life a wild goose chase? Is it a sick dream? A fantasy? Or just a deceptive fallacy? Could be an error, a bizarre accidental act of lunacy? A senseless explosion of foolishness and idiocy? Or a holy orchestrated creation with phenomenal accuracy? Sinless flawless birth of man, perfect example of wisdom, insight and rationality, Paragon of...

Diluted emotions, emotions of insignificance, Unfulfilled promises, crushed hopes, Dad’s dazed dizzy delusions, Mom’s mindless, meaningless illusions, Far from the madding crowd, Crazy crowd , mass hysteria, Collective schizophrenia, paranoia, mania, What’s man suffering from?

Gender plays a significant role in education and evaluation. Accepting it as a fateful variable, many researchers have discussed gender and its influence on education and have come to various and contradictory results in this area just to compound the problem. Unfortunately, in Iran, there is a dearth of gender studies on education and EFL situatio...

When the black swan arrives, When the train leaves the station, And it already has, people, you and I, We can hear the coming, the coming: clicker clicker…cli cliii. Black swan comes of nothing, Out of ignorance, oblivion, recklessness, inertia, Remember J.F. Kennedy assassination? , The black swan is hovering over us,

Narratives create illusions of inevitability, Mirage of human perfect ability, Fables of man’s grandeur and infallibility, We are all intoxicated by our amazing history, In love with fate, our destiny, We have orgasms on history, it’s our aphrodisiac beauty,

Who are your demons? Supernatural beings, unclean spirits, fallen angels, Winged bulls coming from the nether world, Mental illnesses, catalepsy, headache, epilepsy and nightmares, Demons of blindness, Shabriri, Who rested on exposed water at night, And blinded the ones who drank it, The bastard spirits, Liliths, owls, Sent to herd or swine...

The results of MANOVA revealed significant effect of experience on teachers’ sense of efficacy; however, it indicated no significant impact on their beliefs about characteristics that differentiated them from teachers of other subjects.

For the vast majority of the Iranian M.A. students of TEFL, thesis writing is the first individual engagement with research. Despite having some pedagogical merits, such an academic activity generally poses some intellectual and affective challenges to such students. During thesis completion, if students are not effectively scaffolded by supervisor...

This study was an attempt to investigate the impact of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) on Iranian EFL learner's autonomy. To this end, 60 students were selected from a language institute in Tehran. They were then divided into control and experimental groups. A Cambridge ESOL Preliminary Test (PET) was administered to the participants to...

This study aimed at investigating the incorporation of self-assessment in writing and its influence on improving writing skill. Forty-one Iranian female EFL learners participated in the study. Before starting the treatment learners had no idea of assessing their own writings and the task of assessment was done by the teacher like most of traditiona...

This study was conducted to examine how various task types affect the extent to which learners engage in form-related changes (FRC) and meaning-related changes(MRC). To this end,15 Iranian language learners (9 female and 6 male) participated in instruction sessions in which they learned how to self-correct and peer-correct three writing tasks,namel...

Researchers have analyzed movies and books, some have tried to have a discourse analysis and some a critical discourse analysis. The aim of this paper is twofold: first it aims to study the discourse of A Separation, the critically acclaimed 2011 Iranian film drama, showing how realities are produced and social norms are renormalized through the di...