Manoochehr Jafarigohar

Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

[ 1 ] - The EFL Pre-Service Teacher Training in Iran: Is it Adequate or not?

Teacher training programs should provide evidence that they are preparing teacher trainees for their teaching career. However, the literature contains few evaluation reports of the layout of the pre-service EFL teacher training program in Iranian EFL context, a gap which this study tries to fill. The participants of the study were high school EFL teachers (n = 346), teacher trainees (n = 97) an...

[ 2 ] - The Effect of Self-Regulation on Improving EFL Readers’ Ability to Make Within-Text Inferences

Self-regulation is the ability to regulate one’s cognition, behavior, actions, and motivation strategically and autonomously in order to achieve self-set goals including the learning of academic skills and knowledge. Accordingly, self-regulated learning involves self-generated and systematic thoughts and behaviors with the aim of attaining learning goals. With that in mind, this study aimed to ...

[ 3 ] - Mixed Effects of Input Enhancement, Explicit Instruction, Corrective Feedback, and Pushed Output in an Input-Output Mapping Practice

This investigation examined the mixed effects of visual input enhancement, explicit instruction, pushed output, and corrective feedback on noticing and intake of English conjunctive adverbs. Participants included 83 intermediate EFL students enrolled in a grammar and writing course. They were assigned to a control group (n = 22), explicit instruction + pushed output + explicit corrective feedba...

[ 4 ] - EFL Teacher Education in Iran: Does It Promote Trainees’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge?

Teacher education programs can play a principal role in helping prospective teachers to acquire requisite knowledge and skills. Vital to the issue of teacher education is the efficient evaluation of such programs in promoting prospective teachers’ knowledge base. However, the literature contains very few reports of the evaluation of the Iranian EFL preservice teacher education program, which is...

[ 5 ] - Next or Beyond Next: Effect of Contrastive Phrase-Based Treatment on Stage Gain Across Self-Paced and More Time-Constrained Tasks

This study explored the effect of contrastive phrase resynthesis instruction ongaining the teachability hypothesis stages in self-paced versus time-constrained oralproduction and recognition. Three groups (i.e., 23 learners) of high beginner femalelearners in an English language institute were randomly selected from a cohort oflearners. One group received contrastive metalinguistic instruction ...

[ 6 ] - The Role of Educational Context in Influencing EFL Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy Beliefs

Teachers’ sense of efficacy belief has been introduced as a context-specific construct, but the related literature is not clear on this specificity. This study was an attempt to show how contextual factors influence efficacy beliefs among English language teachers. To this end, thirty Iranian EFL teachers working in both school and private institute contexts were chosen as the participants to r...

[ 7 ] - تأثیر حمایت از طریق ساختاردهی و مسئله‌سازی بر روی مهارت‌های خودسازمان‌دهی نوشتار، توانایی نوشتن مقاله و زمان برنامه‌ریزی کلی زبان‌آموزان

تحقیق حاضر به بررسی تأثیر سازکارهای ساختاردهنده و مسئله‌ساز حمایت کننده بر روی مهارت‌های خودسازمان‌دهی نوشتار، توانایی نوشتن مقاله و زمان برنامه‌ریزی کلی در مرحله پیش نوشتار از مراحل نوشتن مقاله و همچنین بررسی نقش سطح زبان‌آموزان به عنوان متغیر تعدیل کننده در میان صد و بیست زبان‌آموز سطح پیش متوسط و صد و بیست زبان‌آموز سطح پیشرفته پرداخته است. پس از فرض نمرات پیش‌آزمون به عنوان همگام، محققان نت...

[ 8 ] - ارزیابی برنامه‌های درسی رشتة آموزش زبان انگلیسی در مقاطع کارشناسی و کارشناسی ارشد بر مبنای طبقه‌بندی بازنگری شدة بلوم

پژوهش حاضر، سرفصل‌های دروس رشتة آموزش زبان انگلیسی در مقاطع کارشناسی و کارشناسی ارشد نظام آموزشی ایران را بر مبنای طبقه‌بندی بازنگری شدة بلوم بررسی کرده است تا میزان بازنمایی سطوح مختلف این طبقه‌بندی را در برنامه‌های درسی تعیین کند. بدین منظور، با استفاده از تحلیل محتوا، بسامد و نسبت اهداف مرتبط با بعد دانش (دانش واقعی، دانش مفهومی، دانش روندی و دانش فراشناختی) و بعد شناختی (به یاد آوردن، فهمید...

[ 9 ] - آموزش استراتژی های مورد نیاز آزمون سرنوشت ساز به دانش آموزان دبیرستانی

نتایج آزمون­های سرنوشت­ ساز همچون کنکور نقش مهمی در زندگی آتی امتحان ­دهندگان ایفا می­کنند. این تحقیق به بررسی تأثیر آموزش استراتژی­های مورد نیاز آزمون بر عملکرد آزمون زبان انگلیسی کنکور می­پردازد. تعداد 293 دانش­ آموز در این تحقیق شرکت کردند که پس از بررسی اولیه، 260 نفر به دو گروه تجربی و گواه تقسیم شدند. پس از شرکت در پیش ­آزمون، هر دو گروه در دورة آموزشی شرکت کردند که به گروه تجربی بستة آمو...

[ 10 ] - Contradictions in Writing Anxiety: A Qualitative Case Study of Expansive Learning among Iranian EFL Learners

This qualitative study aimed at exploring the causes of writing anxiety from an expansive learning perspec- tive. Given the centrality of writing for both EFL learners and teachers, writing anxiety was explored through a longitudinal study spanning two years with 25 EFL learners and teachers who participated by providing comments, diaries, and documents. The participants were also observe...