Marzieh Rafiee

English Department, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran

[ 1 ] - Iranian EFL Teachers’ Attitudes towards Demotivational Factors in Najafabad Institutes

AbstractIn this study, the researchers examined the sources of demotivation among adult language teachers in Najafabad language institutes. Two objectives were pursued in the process of implementing this research: 1) Determining the main sources of demotivation among adult teachers teaching in Najafabad language institutes 2) Uncovering the most significant demotivating factors among Engl...

[ 2 ] - A Comparative Analysis of Lexical Bundles in Journalistic Writing in English and Persian: A Contrastive Linguistic Perspective

  This paper investigates the use of ‘lexical bundles’ in two broad corpora of journalistic writing. The aim of this study is to compare the use of lexical bundles in the two domains, one consisted of newspaper articles written in English and published in England and the other one comprised of newspaper articles written in Persian from Iranian publications. For this purpose, the frequency...

[ 3 ] - Critical Perspectives on Contrastive Rhetoric: A Report From Iranians' EFL Reading Textbooks

The efficacy of genre-based approach to teaching writing has been regarded as an influential practice in L2 writing pedagogy (Hyland, 2007). However, there is still gap between actual structures found in reading materials recommended as textbooks and discourse patterns recommended for L2 writing in EFL contexts, the gap which would highlight the problems of genre and rhetorical patterns for tea...

[ 4 ] - تجزیه و تحلیل معانی بیان متون خواندن در کتب فارسی و انگلیسی با تأکید بر تحلیل معانی بلاغی مقابله‌ای ـ انتقادی

اثربخشی الگوهای بیانی متن بر درک خواندن   چکیده هدف این پژوهش، مطالعه و مقایسه اثربخشی الگوهای بیانی (معنایی) متن علمی بر درک خواندن دانشجویان دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی است. گروه نمونه عبارت بود از دانشجویان مشغول به تحصیل در واحد تهران شرق که به روش نمونه‌گیری تصادفی انتخاب شدند. آزمودنی‌ها پس از نمونه‌گیری تصادفی، در گروه‌های آزمایشی به صورت تصادفی جایگزین شدند. ابزارها عبارت بود از: متون و پر...

[ 5 ] - Iranian EFL Teachers’ Attitudes towards Demotivational Factors in Najafabad Institutes

AbstractIn this study, the researchers examined the sources of demotivation among adult language teachers in Najafabad language institutes. Two objectives were pursued in the process of implementing this research: 1) Determining the main sources of demotivation among adult teachers teaching in Najafabad language institutes 2) Uncovering the most significant demotivating factors among Engl...

[ 6 ] - A Comparative Analysis of Lexical Bundles in Journalistic Writing in English and Persian: A Contrastive Linguistic Perspective

  This paper investigates the use of ‘lexical bundles’ in two broad corpora of journalistic writing. The aim of this study is to compare the use of lexical bundles in the two domains, one consisted of newspaper articles written in English and published in England and the other one comprised of newspaper articles written in Persian from Iranian publications. For this purpose, the frequency...

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