Mansoor Tavakoli
University of Isfahan, Iran
[ 1 ] - The effects of Curriculum-Based Measurement on EFL learners' achievements in grammar and reading
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of using Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) on the learners’ achievement in L2 grammar and reading in an EFL context and to further investigate whether the students’ classroom performances would predict their final exam results. To conduct this study, two classes, each containing 30 female students, were selected among ...
[ 2 ] - Effect of Autonomous Noticing Activities on EFL Learners’ Grammatical Accuracy
This study focused on the effect of transcribing task, as a noticing activity, on EFL learners’ grammatical accuracy. For 20 sessions, oral discussion tasks were assigned to 2 intermediate adult EFL classrooms, with 1 class serving as the control group and the other as the experimental group. For this purpose, the learners were divided into groups of 3 or 4 in each class. Learners in both group...
[ 3 ] - Washback Effect of General English Test of Ph.D. Entrance Exam on Science and Humanities Students: Perceptions and Practices
Testing holds an important place in the Iranian test-oriented context where the entrance examinations have serious educational and occupational outcomes. This study aimed to explore the potential washback effects of the General English Language Test of the Ph.D. (GELTP) as part of the Ph.D. University Entrance Examination (PUEE) on the humanities and science students’ perceptions and practices....
[ 4 ] - The Effects of Direct Corrective Feedback and Metalinguistic Explanation on EFL Learners’ Implicit and Explicit Knowledge of English Definite and Indefinite Articles
This study investigated the effects of two types of written feedback – direct corrective feedback (DCF) and metalinguistic explanation (ME) - on Iranian EFL learners’ implicit and explicit knowledge of English definite and indefinite articles. Assigned to three groups of DCF, ME, and control groups, the participants took four tests in three testing phases: pretest, posttest, and delayed posttes...
[ 5 ] - Improvement of Metadiscourse Use among Iranian EFL Learners through a Process- based Writing Course
The present study investigated the use of interactive metadiscourse resources (IMRs) in terms of appropriacy during a process- based writing course by applying qualitative and exploratory methods. Moreover, learners' perception was investigated to find out how confident they felt as they were writing and rewriting the drafts. 30 intermediate EFL learners were chosen to participate in this ...
[ 6 ] - Autonomously Noticing Incorrect Language Use: Does it Improve EFL Learners' Grammatical Accuracy?
Promoting communicative interactions, while simultaneously drawing students’ attention to language form, is considered as a potentially significant area of research in second language acquisition. This study focuses on the effect of transcribing task, as an autonomous noticing activity, on intermediate and advanced EFL learners' grammatical accuracy. The study was conducted in two advanced and ...
[ 7 ] - The effects of Concept Mapping Strategy and Aural Vs. Written Prompts on Writing Test Performance Under Different Planning Conditions
This study examined the effects of aural and written prompts under two planning conditions (i.e. pre-task planning and no planning) on complexity, accuracy, and fluency of test takers' writing production. Forty learners in an English institute, who had already been classified as intermediate according to the Oxford Placement Test, were assigned to two planning conditions (i.e. no planning and p...
[ 8 ] - Individual and Collaborative Planning Conditions: Effects on Fluency, Complexity and Accuracy in L2 Argumentative Writing
Research on pre-task planning has revealed that planned conditions have produced more fluent and complex language than unplanned conditions. To date, most of these studies have investigated the effects of individual planning on language production while collaborative planning has received scant attention. To determine the effects of pre-task planning on second language written production, the p...
[ 9 ] - Referential, Quasi, and Expletive Subjects in L2 English of Persian Speakers
The present study sought to investigate the acquisition of referential, quasi and expletive subject pronouns, three different types of obligatory subjects in English, by adult Persian speaking L2 learners of English at different stages of L2 acquisition. A Grammaticality Judgment Test and a Translation Test were designed and developed to elicit the participants' knowledge of obligatory subjects...
[ 10 ] - Backward Pragmatic Transfer: The Case of Refusals in Persian
The purpose of this study was to examine Cook’s (2003) ‘multiple competence’ by investigating backward pragmatic transfer (from L2 [English] to L1 [Persian]) in refusals to invitations. It explored participants’ frequency and content of refusal strategies in L1 regarding the status (i.e., power and distance) of interlocutors and the proficiency level of EFL learners. The participants were Persi...
[ 11 ] - EFL Teacher Education Programs in Iran: The Absence of Teachers’ Involvement
This study investigated the nature of EFL teacher education programs with respect to implementation, practicality, and approach to teacher learning. The data were collected through observation of two teacher education programs and interviews with 8 teacher trainers. The results attested to the transmission orientation of the programs. It was found that a pre-specified body of teachi...
[ 12 ] - بررسی مجدد آزمون کلوز و تک: تاثیر آشنایی با ژانر بر عملکرد در آزمون درک مطلب به زبان خارجی
تحقیق حاضر تلاشی است در جهت بررسی نقشی که آشنایی با ژانر در عملکرد فراگیران زبان انگلیسی بهایفا می کند. این تحقیق همچنین (C-test) و تک (cloze) عنوان زبان خارجی در دو نوع آزمون کلوزسعی در روشن ساختن این موضوع دارد که آیا آزمون تک همانند آزمون کلوز توانایی زبان را مورد سنجشقرار می دهد؟ شرکت کنندگان در این تحقیق پنجاه و یک دانشجوی کارشناسی رشته زبان و ادبیاتانگلیسی دانشگاه اصفهان با سطح زبانی متوس...
[ 13 ] - تأثیرتدریس واژگان زبان انگلیسی با کارتون آموزشی به همراه ترجمه بینازبانی شفاهی بر میزان فراگیری زبان آموزان ایرانی
هدف پژوهش حاضر بررسی تأتیر تدریس واژگان زبان انگلیسی با کارتون آموزشی Gogo به همراه ترجمۀ بینازبانی شفاهی و توضیحات متعاملی معلم و زبان‌آموزان بر میزان فراگیری زبان آموزان زبانسرای دیلماج زنجان بود. جامعه آماری مشتمل بر کلیۀ زبان‌آموزان زبانسرای دیلماج زنجان (138 نفر) بود که از میان آنها 40 نفر به عنوان نمونه و با روش نمونه گیری تصادفی ساده انتخاب شد و در دو کلاس20 نفری (گروه کنترل و آزمایش) مو...
[ 14 ] - Self-assessment of Writing in a Portfolio Program: A Case of Iranian EFL Learners
After moving away from the psychometric and the integrative language testing paradigms toward the communicative language testing paradigm, experts in writing and assessment have been concerned with creating conditions under which learners can experience and display writing in an authentic way so that their writings will tally the ones in non-test situations. As an alternative assessment option,...
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