Shirin Shafiei Ebrahimi

• B.A. (Hons), M.A. (Hons), Ph.D. (Hons), Postdoctoral Fellow in Education, Lecturer in English; AVAILABLE FOR NEW POSITIONS
• Professor at University

Poetry for teaching English is widely adopted but understanding poetry is problematic. Reading strategies can address this problem. Therefore, in this research, the most common strategies that Iranian postgraduate students perceive that they use were studied. This study adopted the quantitative method design in data analysis. The instrument for dat...

Technology use has become a basic issue in today's post-modern educational era. Therefore, Malaysia like any other country needs to sustain worldwide mastery in technology use at schools. As a result, this paper investigates the role of technology at the secondary education in Malaysia and also emphasizes the need for the inclusion of more technolo...

This study examines common strategies that English as a Foreign language (EFL) students employ when reading English poetry. To identify the strategies, a survey was designed for data collection from TESL students. The result shows that students significantly tend to use the strategies that require their creativity to construct new ideas in the mean...

This study examines the effect of digital reading on reading comprehension of English short prose texts of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and English as a Second Language (ESL) college students. 60 ESL participants with 30 students in the experimental group and 30 students in the control group plus 60 EFL participants with 30 students in the e...

Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is a proven method to increase oil production from the brown fields. One of the efficient EOR methods is injecting surfactants to release the trapped oil. However, few unconsolidated behaviours were observed in both field and laboratory practice. In this study, a new framework was adapted to evaluate the continuous surfa...

The study's main purpose is to create improvement in the level of of knowledge and skills of the students. Reading as other learning gains is one of the most important skill that need to be learned at university. It should be measurable the outcome of reading instruction. However it can help instructors to understand the variety of output that can...

There are a number of studies using anaerobic reactors for landfill leachate treatment. Each anaerobic reactor is unique by itself and has different treatment performances according to the nature of the landfill leachate, reactor configuration, seed sludge, and start-up and operational conditions as well as the standard requirements of the effluent...

This study is about the roles of instruction through technologies on the students' academic performance in Environmental Sciences subject. Totally, 60 sophomore of a Malaysian public university were selected based on convenience sampling. For data collection, students with close pre-test scores were chosen to be in the same group. For data analysis...

The study is aimed to enhance the productivity of microalgal culture by varying the organic and inorganic components during wastewater treatment. A model organism Chlorella pyrenoidosa (C. pyrenoidosa) was grown in four different sources of wastewater namely piggery, palm oil mill effluent (POME), mixed-kitchen, and domestic wastes. The growth effi...

p class="0abstract">Current serious game framework still lacks in fulfilling the user's requirements. This is due to the framework elements which only focus on the process of delivery. Hence, this study was carried out to determine user’s ability in self-directed learning and their styles in making a decision. This study forms part of a larger rese...

Effects of acid, alkali, ionic liquid (IL), and microwave-alkali pretreatments on cellulosic water hyacinth (WH) were investigated based on the total reducing sugars (TRS) and ethanol production. For the first time, IL pretreatment with (1-Ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate ([EMIM][Ac]) was used for WH, and the efficiency was compared with the other...

In recent years gaming products have increasingly been used to enhance learning and training development in the academic and commercial sectors. Gaming is an approach that applies technology to provide an almost real experience with interactive field training. It is an approach that supports the theory of learning by doing with a real case scenario...

Agricultural wastes such as lignocellulosic residues are renewable resources can be used for mushroom cultivation. Spent mushroom substrate (SMS) is defined as leftover of biomass generated by commercial mushroom industries after harvesting period of mushroom. Mushroom cultivation using agricultural wastes promises a good quality of SMS for produci...

Surfactant flooding is a proven Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) technique used for mobilizing residual oil trapped in the reservoir. The mechanism of surfactant injection into reservoirs for improving oil recovery factor is to alter the fluid/fluid interaction by reducing interfacial tension between oil and brine. Besides, they alter fluid/rock propert...

Ethanol production from cellulosic biomass could effectively increase using enhancers. In this study, five types of different enhancers: fermented malt extract (FME), fermented barley extract (FBE), Saccharomy- ces cerevisiae (SC), horse dung (HD) and mixture of all enhancers (Mix) were used in order to evaluate the sugar and ethanol production fro...

Selected as the BEST SPEAKER by audience at the TEDx Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnk5lbLUsSE

Are you at the mid of your research or simply interested in doing a new research on language Education? We are on the same boat. I am also so enthusiastic in doing a research project with you. Just send me details on your project to start immediately. Together we can be a great research team. Looking forward to working together, Dr Shirin

https://www.nst.com.my/news/2017/01/204538/planet-and-people-benefit “EVERY day is a great day to take a few cars off the road.” This has been the justification for car-free days since it emerged in the 1990s. Nowadays, sustainability is considered one of the biggest concerns of many societies. Since vehicles were invented in 1886, people have f...

This study is to introduce the most common strategies that EFL students use while they read a piece of literature in English. To identify these strategies a questionnaire is employed as the instrument of data collection. The interesting result shows a significant tendency of EFL students to creativity and construction of new ideas in meaning making...

Because there is a huge need for research in the area of teaching poetry effectively, it is interesting to study different aspects of reading poetry to approach the best way of teaching it. This research aims to show the effect of affective stances which are among many types of strategies that English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students employ whi...

Speaking is an essential part of English exams, in which it is difficult for testees to recognize their weaknesses in the oral evaluation. It is not easy to understand what is wrong while they are reading. To solve the problem, the student’s speeches were recorded and then were played. Therefore, they could evaluate theirs performance better by obs...

The aim of this paper is to have an overview on the strategies the EFL readers use while reading poetry. The researcher wishes to find these strategies mainly by help of think aloud protocol, and interview as the complementary instrument. The results of the study can be illuminating guidelines for literature teachers to facilitate the process of un...

Usually, Iranian students are not good in English which is considered as their foreign language. In this study, the researcher tries to investigate L1 and L2 reading strategies of Iranian university students of different level of English proficiency. The students responded to a reading strategy questionnaire and a semi-structured interview. The fin...

This research aims to find out what are the common similarities and differences between the reading strategies that the English as a second language readers used while reading poetries of different eras. The major instrument which is being used in this research is think-aloud protocol. This research can be a good guide for literature teachers to he...