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October 2010 - present
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Assessing and improving academic writing skills is a crucial component of higher education. To support students in this endeavor, a comprehensive self-assessment toolkit was developed to provide personalized feedback and guide their writing improvement. The current study aimed to rigorously evaluate the validity and reliab...
Background and objectives Assessing and improving academic writing skills is a crucial component of higher education. To support students in this endeavor, a comprehensive self-assessment toolkit was developed to provide personalized feedback and guide their writing improvement. The current study aimed to rigorously evaluate the validity and reliab...
Introduction
Resilience in the face of educational barriers refers to faculty members’ ability to effectively navigate, overcome, and adapt to challenges encountered in the educational environment. These challenges may include curriculum changes, transitions to online instruction, resource limitations, or disruptions caused by external factors, suc...
This study tries to investigate real use of vocabulary learning strategies by Iranian EFL learners. To achieve this goal, the researcher applied a pure qualitative research method in which frequency of all strategies counted and then classified. To select participants for the current study, the researcher used cluster sampling and fish ball approac...
To date, many studies focused on the behavior of English grammatical structures in various national and international textbooks and questioned the authenticity of the language and the grammar presented in these textbooks. To see if Malaysian English language textbooks are free from these issues, this study compared the ways in which modal verb phra...
This study explores the potential impact of ChatGPT on the academic writing skills development of medical students enrolled in a compulsory 3-unit writing course at a medical university. The research focuses on two primary objectives, which are formulated as two research questions: Firstly, does the use of ChatGPT enhance medical students’ English...
Background: There are many factors in determining language proficiency among university students. Identifying these factors can help the teaching and learning process to move forward more quickly and effectively. Purpose: This study aimed to explore the relationship between social, cultural, and linguistic factors and the language proficiency of 22...
This research examines students’ beliefs about language learning by evaluating the measurement equivalence of the beliefs about Language Learning Inventory (BALLI). The graded response model (GRM) was used to examine differential item functioning (DIF) in the BALLI across four different countries, namely: Iran, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Bangladesh....
Exploring the relationship between academic achievement, creativity, multiple intelligences, and motivation among Iranian medical students can provide valuable insights into their educational experiences and inform the development of effective strategies to enhance learning outcomes. This study investigated the relationship among Iranian medical st...
The study highlights the presence of intolerance within the textbooks used for Islamic education, which has negative implications for peace and harmony. However, the understanding of this intolerance construction in the textbooks is currently limited. Therefore, this research aims to identify and analyze the intolerant values embedded within these...
This study aimed to investigate the impact of role-play on
the vocabulary learning and retention of Iranian intermediate-level EFL
learners. A quasi-experimental design with a pretest-posttest control group
was employed to achieve this objective. The study consisted of 50 male
intermediate students who were conveniently selected as participants. Th...
Vocabulary is an essential language component that will affect all four language skills. Therefore, any technique that can help promote vocabulary learning should be encouraged. The current study aimed to explore the effect of first-language translation on Iranian intermediate extroverted and introverted EFL learners' vocabulary learning. The autho...
Introduction
Testing and assessment tools evaluate students’ performance in a foreign language. Moreover, the ultimate goal of tests is to reinforce learning and motivate students. At the same time, instructors can gather information about learners’ current level of knowledge through assessment to revise and enhance their teaching. This study aimed...
The challenge of being able to respond to student adjustment needs in elementary schools is a problem worldwide. In this manuscript, we offer one example from Indonesia. Using data from 15 public elementary schools from three small regions in Indonesia: Semarang, Surabaya, and Jakarta, we analyze conditions that result in neglect. Student neglect i...
Developing a Comprehensive Plagiarism Assessment Rubric: Defining “plagiarism” is not simple, and its complexity is too seldom appreciated. This article offers a comprehensive plagiarism assessment rubric from a four-year study of analyzing students’ plagiarism. From qualitative analyses of 120 students’ paraphrase samples, we identified seven plag...
This corpus-based cross-disciplinary study investigated the syntactic structures and rhetorical combinations of 200 research article titles in two disciplines, namely, medicine (100) and applied linguistics (100). The RA titles were selected from four reputable Iranian English journals. The authors were all Iranian researchers in these two discipli...
Teachers are the core component of teaching and learning a second or foreign language; therefore, they should know what the learners consider as the most effective teachers’ characteristics which may enhance their learning. Accordingly, the main aim of the present study was to compare field dependent and field independent Iranian learners in terms...
This study aims to investigate the relationship between procrastination and students’ writing performance. It also seeks to find a correlation between students’ writing error types and procrastination. The study followed a quantitative-survey design that utilized a writing test and a questionnaire to collect data using a convenience sampling method...
div> This study reports on a case study of a blind EFL learner. The purpose of the study was to explore a detailed situated data to examine to what extent it is feasible to be a successful language learner despite being visually impaired and lacking some learning resources. Interview data and the narratives of this EFL learner have revealed that he...
Error treatment is one of the crucial factors in successful language learning; however, it is
an important question if the feedback for error treatment should be provided implicitly or
explicitly. The existing problems in the students’ pronunciation motivated the researchers
to compare two types of corrective feedback, explicit vs. implicit, in tre...
Article History Keywords Discursive psychology English language learning Iranian housewives Interpretative repertoires The motive for language learning Teaching English as Foreign Language In this study, the principles of discursive psychology are used to critically analyze the accounts of Iranian housewife English learners on their motives and int...
This study aimed at finding the most consistent errors of 42 medical students before and after they attended a writing course. The students were asked to write about assigned topics both at the beginning and e end of their writing course before Surface Strategy Taxonomy was used to analyse their assignment. To see if there is a significant differen...
This study explored EFL teachers' emotional intelligence and their burnout in private language institutes in one city in Iran. This study also identified the emotional intelligence sub-categories that contribute mostly to burnout. To this end, the researchers administered the Bar On's EQ-I Self Report Scale questionnaire along with the Maslach Burn...
The classroom is considered a social institution in which the social interaction that happens between students and professors in a university setting is of prime importance. Accordingly, classroom participation as an important variable in this setting and pros and cons to grading the students' class participation have been considered to be research...
As task-based language teaching focuses on real word tasks and the learners need to complete these tasks in the process of learning a foreign or second language, it helps target language fluency and student confidence. That is why second and foreign language teachers and researchers have shown interest in TBLT. This study attempts to investigate th...
Schemata refer to all kinds of knowledge which are gained throughout the lifetime. Few studies have attempted to integrate schema theory with vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension, which are two other crucial factors in translation and learning. Thus, the present research aimed at delineating the potential effect of these three factors on...
Teaching and learning strategies help facilitate teaching and learning. Among them, simplification and explicitation strategies are those which help transferring the meaning to the learners and readers of a translated text. The aim of this study was to investigate explicitation and simplification in Persian translation of novel of Khaled Hosseini's...
Conducted in the framework of two key cultural strategies of foreignisation and domestication postulated by Venuti (1995), this research made an attempt to investigate the strategies used in translation of 40 restaurant menus. It tried to perform a comprehensive analysis of the foreignisation and domestication procedures applied in the translation...
Discourse markers are a part of language which are much neglected in the Persian language although they play a very important role in our daily conversations. This study aims at researching and investigating errors which occurr in the translation of discourse markers (DMs) from English into Persian in the subtitles of drama movies. To conduct this...
This study was conducted to compare two Persian translations of metaphorical phrasal verbs in the novel of '1984' by George Orwel in order to find out significant differences between two translators in applying Newmark's translation strategies. Translation of metaphors is one of the most problematic issues in translation studies. Metaphors are of m...
Translation is defined as converting source text into target text and transferring exactly the meaning carried by source text. Based on this definition, the current study tried to investigate the most frequently used Malone translation strategies in the translation of " Little Prince " from English into Persian and identify if two translators inves...
One of the main factors which enhance learning and teaching a foreign or second language
is communication strategies applied by learners in the learning process and instructors in
the teaching process. This study investigated the perception of Iranian EFL (English as a
foreign language) learners regarding the use of communication strategies in thei...
The current study investigated the effect of educational setting, teachers' gender and experience, along with learners' proficiency level on the application of corrective feedback. Corrective feedback is one of the controversial issues which have received the researchers' attention recently. To conduct this research, 60 EFL teachers and 80 EFL lear...
Many studies have shown that students who actively participate in the learning process learn more than those who do not. On the other hand, there are still scholars who have remained skeptical about the whole process. In Iran, too, there are still doubts about not only what EFL students think about class participation, but also whether classroom pa...
With the rise of Translation Studies as a new science, translation error assessment has moved toward more scientific approaches, and the related frameworks proposed for error identification and assessment are integrated more and more.Errors emerge as the result of some factors. Three main perspectives are involved in each translation which includes...
The problem which this research intended to resolve is that beside many differences between individuals' characteristics that might impact their language learning process, there's often a different neglected component which is " Intelligence ". Although there are several researches about the relationship between students' multiple intelligence prof...
Since vocabulary is core element in learning foreign/second languages this study tries to explore the tactics and strategies applied by Iranian EFL learners with high and low vocabulary knowledge in learning vocabulary. Thus, the finding may pave the way for researchers, curriculum designers and instructors to find out effective strategies in learn...
Cultural content has become an important issue after the advent of intercultural communicative approach (ICC) in language teaching field. The current study analyzed cultural content of three mainstream intermediate level EFL textbooks. This study was carried out using Chen's (2004) and Lee's (2009) suggested themes for detecting big " C " and littl...
The current research was to explore the relationship among knowledge of collocation and reading, writing, speaking and listening proficiency of Iranian EFL students. To this end, 50 students involved in the study took a test of both lexical and grammatical collocations to measure their collocational knowledge, first. Then, an IELTS sample test (IEL...
This study aims to find out the various strategies used in learning vocabularies among Iranian EFL learners in three different proficiency levels (beginner, intermediate and advanced) in Zanjan province. The vocabulary learning strategies which have been used in this research include determination, social, memory, cognitive, and meta-cognitive whic...
Using corpus approach, a growing number of researchers blamed textbooks for neglecting important information on the use of grammatical structures in natural English. Likewise, the prescribed Malaysian English textbooks used in schools are reportedly prepared through a process of material development that involves intuition. Hence, a corpus-based st...
This study aimed at determining the effect of instruction in cognitive and metacognitive strategies on the students' educational self-esteem and academic performance. 87 students were selected through random sampling. The two first groups were consciously taught about cognitive and metacognitive strategies. All the classes were taught by the same t...
Based on the discrepancies found in many Malaysian English language textbooks, a detailed analysis on the way modal auxiliary verb forms and their semantic functions were introduced and presented in texts and exercises in five Malaysian textbooks was done. For that to be achieved, a qualitative page-by-page content analysis was applied. From the di...
Using computer in writing classrooms has been common at least for the last three decades. Applying computer in educational settings has accompanied with some inevitable problems. This study investigated the effect of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) on EFL students' writing achievement. Forty students in a high school in Iran were selecte...
Case is an element that assigns a particular function to an NP in the sentence. In some languages, e.g. Arabic, case is assigned overtly or morphologically, but in some others, e.g. English, covertly or syntactically. On the other hand, while agentive passive sentences are formed naturally and frequently in English, they, according to several Arabi...
Taking advantage of technology in learning a second or foreign language has been common at least for the last three decades. Among modern technologies used in learning process, the computer is a new one. Applying new technologies has accompanied with some inevitable problems. To cope with these problems, the presence of a teacher is necessary to ac...
In this study, the first grade English textbook in Iran's senior high school was evaluated based on the current research findings in syllabus design, English language teaching, and the specific language teaching situation in Iran. This study was an attempt to determine the extent to which the EFL textbook (English 1) conformed to the common univers...
One major issue that has obsessed the scholars' minds is how to provide the students with fruitful feedback, that it will have a positive effect on students' writing processes, and so best contributes to improve overall, long-term quality of their writing. It remains no easy answer to the question of what kind of feedback the teacher should give th...
The main purpose of the current study is to investigate the use of vocabulary learning strategies by EFL undergraduate students in Kerman Province and its contribution to reading comprehension. According to Schmitt's classification, vocabulary learning strategies for this study are classified as determination, social, memory, cognitive, and metacog...
This article aims mainly to explore the relationship among the degree of extraversion tendency, vocabulary learning strategies, and reading comprehension of EFL undergraduate students in Kerman Province. For this study, there are five different categories of vocabulary learning strategies as determination, memory, social, cognitive, and metacogniti...
This study compares and contrasts lexical cohesion in English and Persian abstracts of Iranian medical students’ theses to appreciate textualization processes in the two languages. For this purpose, one hundred English and Persian abstracts were selected randomly and analyzed based on Seddigh and Yarmohamadi’s (1996) lexical cohesion framework, a v...
This study tried to analyze the errors made by Persian-speaking learners of English and English children learning English as their mother tongue. The researcher analyzed errors according to surface strategy taxonomy rather than comparative taxonomy. To do this study, the researcher selected 40 homogenous Persian-speaking learners of English and adm...
This study is going to investigate errors explored in English composition of Persian-and Turkish-speaking learners of English. Furthermore, it is going to identify if the source of errors can be traced back to the native language of the learners. To do so, 40 Persian learners of English and 40 Turkish learners of English participated in the study....
This study tries to investigate the vocabulary learning strategies and vocabulary level of Iranian EFL learners and any potential relation and contribution between these two variables. The research design of the study was quantitative method and the population of the study was Iranian junior EFL students. Thus, 238 participants-both male and female...
This study examined the influence of motivation and gender on the choice of language learning strategies by Iranian post-graduate students. One hundred and fifty six Iranian post-graduate students in Kerman province were selected based on a two-step cluster sampling. A translated version of Oxford's strategy inventory for language learning was admi...
The main objective of this study is to evaluate undergraduate EFL learners' vocabulary learning strategies and its relation to the learners' vocabulary size. There are five different categories of vocabulary learning strategies as determination, memory, social, cognitive, and metacognitive. These categories cover an overall 35 strategies included i...
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Kindly fill out this short survet regarding plagiarism. It is highly appreciated if you ask other colleagues to fill it out also.
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I am making a WhatsApp group for international researchers who are interested in joint research work. In this group, we can share our projects and cooperate in conducting joint research activities which will enrich the projects. Moreover, we can share our publications for citation. If you are interested send me a message in Whatsapp through my cell number +989173158394 or send email and let me know your cell phone number so I will add you to the group.
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Dr. Reza Kafipour
Assistant professor in TESL
Kindly be informed that we are going to conduct an international research project related to linguistics and social sciences. Researchers from around the word especially in the filed of EFL/ESL/TESL/TEFL are welcomed. Moreover, we are also ready to take part/cooperate in research projects by other researchers.
Keep in touch if you are interested
