محمد خطیب

هیئت علمی دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی

[ 1 ] - بررسی پژوهش‌های تاپ داون و یا باتم آپ (بالا به پایین و بالعکس) در مهارت شنیداری زبان ایرانی در سطح پیش از متوسطه

زبان‌آموزان ایرانی در سطح پیش از متوسطه از کدام یک از روش‌های "باتم آپ" و یا "تاپ داون" در مهارت شنیداری استفاده می‌کنند؟ زبان‌آموزان 90 نفر شامل 72دختر و 18 پسر بوده و همه آنها در ترم 2 دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد همدان در رشته‌های مترجمی زبان انگلیسی و یا ادبیات انگلیسی مشغول به تحصیل بودند. در این تحقیق 3 آزمایش انجام شد. در آزمایش اول، لغات به طور مجزا آورده شده بود و از زبان‌آموزان خواسته‌ شد...

[ 2 ] - An Investigation of Iranian EFL Teachers and Learners’ Preferences in the Selection of Different Types of Direct and Indirect Oral Corrective Feedback

This paper aimed at examining the Iranian EFL teachers and learners’ preferences for two types of direct oral corrective feedback, including explicit correction and metalinguistic clues, and two types of indirect oral corrective feedback, including recast and repetition. The participants included 39 teachers and 84 EFL learners, selected through purposive sampling. A scenario-based questionnair...

[ 3 ] - Exploring the Role of M-Game as a Seat of ESP Reading in the Iranian TVT

To direct m-game to be a possible didactic option for Iranian TVT (Technical Vocational Training) trainees, in this study m-game-mediated (Mobile Game-Mediated)  materials delivery was incorporated into the conventional teaching method in the blended ESP reading skill platform. So, 52 male trainees fromTechnical and Vocational College of Isfahan were selected by convenience sampling. Afterwards...

[ 4 ] - Exploring EFL Learners' Beliefs toward Communicative Language Teaching: A Case Study of Iranian EFL Learners

Although Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has been widely advocated by a considerable number of applied linguists and English language teachers, its implementation in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts has encountered a number of difficulties.  Reviewing the literature suggests that one of the reasons for unsuccessful implementation of CLT may be neglect of learners' beliefs in t...

[ 5 ] - Developing an Analytic Scale for Scoring EFL Descriptive Writing

English language practitioners have long relied on intuition-based scales for rating EFL/ESL writing. As these scales lack an empirical basis, the scores they generate tend to be unreliable, which results in invalid interpretations. Given the significance of the genre of description and the fact that the relevant literature does not introduce any data-based analytic scales for rating EFL descri...

[ 6 ] - Enhancing Iranian EFL Learners’ Descriptive Writing Skill through Genre-based Instruction and Metalinguistic Feedback

English language teaching (ELT) writing practitioners have long attempted to improve EFL/ESL learners’ competence in writing with recourse to either instruction or feedback. Likewise, researchers have, to date, mainly focused on either of these treatments to enhance language learners’ composing ability. Which treatment leads to more significant improvements is, however, unclear. Moreover, of th...

[ 7 ] - Attitudes towards English Language Norms in the Expanding Circle: Development and Validation of a new Model and Questionnaire

This paper describes the development and validation of a new model and questionnaire to measure Iranian English as a foreign language learners’ attitudes towards the use of native versus non-native English language norms. Based on a comprehensive review of the related literature and interviews with domain experts, five factors were identified. A draft version of a questionnaire based on those f...

[ 8 ] - The Investigation of the Perspectives of Iranian EFL Domain Experts on Postmethod Pedagogy: A Delphi Technique

After the introduction of postmethod pedagogy by Kumaravadivelu with its three principles of particularity, possibility and practicality, a wave of attention was directed towards this so-called 'postmethod era' and its appropriacy and adequacy in satiating the demands of the language learners in this 'brand new world'. This situation has created a healthy debate among the Iranian EFL community ...

[ 9 ] - تأثیر روشهای آموزشی متفاوت برروی فراگیری مهارتهای ادب در زبان انگلیسی

اکثر تحقیقات در زمینه کاربردشناسی زبان بینابینی بر روی انجام و یادگیری کارگفتها توسط غیربومی زبانان تمرکز کرده اند و  ادب را تنها یک امر جانبی انگاشته اند. تحقیق حاضر مربوط به ادب زبانی می باشد و سعی دارد تأثیر روشهای آموزشی متفاوت را برروی فراگیری مهارتهای ادب در انگلیسی بررسی کند. هشت گروه دانشجویان سال اول و سال سوم رشته های زبان انگلیسی بطور تصادفی به سه گروه آزمایشی (مطالب تقویت شده،  تدری...

[ 10 ] - مطالعه اثر بخشی همیاری مستقیم و غیرمستقیم زبان آموزان هم سطح و غیر هم سطح در حیطه تحول تدریجی بر توسعه کاربرد شناسی زبان بینابین

مطالعات مبتنی بر دیدگاه اجتماعی –  فرهنگی که به بررسی چگونگی توسعه کاربرد شناسی زبان بینابین می پردازند به تازگی توجه پژوهشگران حیطه اکتساب و آموزش زبان دوم را به خود جلب نموده و در این میان نقش مفاهیمی چون «همیاری»و « حیطه تحول تدریجی» در توسعه کاربرد شناسی زبان بینابین از جمله زمینه های در خور توجه است. مطالعه حاضر به بررسی میزان اثرگذاری کمک همیاران ارشد در حیطه تحول تدریجی  ، همیاران هم سطح...

[ 11 ] - An Investigation of Teachers’ Perceptions of KARDS in an EFL Context

Kumaravadivelue’s (2012) language teacher education for a global society known as KARDS has gathered little momentum in the context of Iran due to scarcity of studies on it. To fill this gap, the present research investigated Iranian EFL teachers’ perceptions of KARDS with regard to variables including teaching context, gender, and teaching experience. To this end, a KARDS questionnaire was des...

[ 12 ] - Contributions of Kumaravadivelu’s Language Teacher Education Modular Model (KARDS) to Iranian EFL Language Institute Teachers’ Professional Identity

This research aims to investigate the contributions of KARDS (knowing, analyzing, recognizing, doing, and seeing) to Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) institute teachers’ professional identity reconstruction. The researchers employed purposive sampling to choose twenty teachers. A KARDS questionnaire (Hassani, Khatib, & Yazdani Moghaddam, 2019a, 2019b) was used to classify the teacher...

[ 13 ] - On the Plausibility of Accommodating Manipulative Transliteration Norms in Medical ESP Course Books: A Needs Analysis Study

The significant role of needs analysis in enriching the design and content of ESP course books could be in no way ignored. The present study based on a three-year longitudinal needs analysis study of medical students, a medical ESP course book was developed and approved by experts. The feedback of the four-semester practice of the approved book revealed that practitioners showed great interest ...

[ 14 ] - The Impact of Task-based Language Teaching on ESP Learners’ Productive Skills: From Task-based Instruction to Investigation of Learners’ and Instructors’ Attitudes toward the Course

Togetherness of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) has been the subject of many recent studies in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and English as a Second Language (ESL) domain. Few studies, however, have addressed the impact of TBLT on ESP learners’ linguistic production. This study aimed at investigating the impact of task-based teaching on ESP lear...

[ 15 ] - Recognizing Stalactites and Stalagmites of ELT Vodcasting in Teacher Education Based on Activity Theory and Visual Thinking Strategies

Teachers need to know new applications for developing online materials and then they should become aware of different ways to present them to online audience. This study tries to help ELT teachers to overcome challenges and difficulties of vodcasting by recognizing their social and biological motives (Activity Theory), and using Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS). It can alter teachers’ negative ...