Reza Pishghadam
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
[ 1 ] - On the Influence of Stroke on Willingness to Attend Classes and Foreign Language Achievement
Given the significance of teacher care and its impact on student motivation, stroke as a unit of recognition seems to be related to motivation for class attendance and language learning. In this regard, this paper aimed to investigate the role of stroke in students’ willingness to attend classes (WTAC) and their foreign language achievement (FLA) in the foreign language context. To this end, a ...
[ 2 ] - Pinpointing the classifiers of English language writing ability: A discriminant function analysis approach
The major aim of this paper was to investigate the validity of language and intelligence factors for classifying Iranian English learners` writing performance. Iranian participants of the study took three tests for grammar, breadth, and depth of vocabulary, and two tests for verbal and narrative intelligence. They also produced a corpus of argumentative writ...
[ 3 ] - Crossing the threshold of Iranian TEFL
Teaching English in an Iranian and Islamic culture poses complex questions for both teachers and learners. In this paper, the authors intend to shed light on what it means to teach English as a foreign language (TEFL) in an Islamic-Iranian context. Having reviewed the colonial and postmodern views of English language teaching, the authors took a look beyond the current ...
[ 4 ] - Task-Based Creative Writing through Visual Advertisement: A Change of Attitude
Almost little is known about creative writing. In this research, creative writing has been introduced as an alternative to academic writing. The aims were to introduce creative writing as an alternative to academic writing to boost the participants’ attitude towards writing in general. The participants were 32 senior university students studying English Translation at Islamic Azad University, T...
[ 5 ] - Life-wise Language Learning Textbooks: Construction and Validation of an Emotional Abilities Scale through Rasch Modeling
Underlying the recently developed notions of applied ELT and life syllabus is the idea that language classes should give precedence to learners’ life qualities, for instance emotional intelligence (EI), over and above their language skills. By so doing, ELT is ascribed an autonomous status and ELT classes can lavish their full potentials to the learners. With that in mind, this study aimed to d...
[ 6 ] - The Society of the Spectacle Revisited: Separation, Schooling, and the Pursuit of Dangerous Citizenship
In this paper we set out to accomplish several goals. Primarily, we seek to re-interpret Guy Debord’s (1967) work The Society of the Spectacle in light of modern-day schooling, principally within North America (although we recognize the global connectivity inherent in any current discussion of formal education). In addition, we aim to utilize Debord’s conceptualizations as a series of means and...
[ 7 ] - Specifying the Underlying Constructs of Home Culture Attachment Scale
This study was conducted to extract first, the underlying factors of Home Culture Attachment Scale (HCAS) and second, to confirm these factors via Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analysis. To meet this end, the scale was distributed to 374 English language learners in private language institutes in Mashhad, Iran. To determine the construct validity of the scale, Exploratory Factor Analysis (...
[ 8 ] - تحلیل کیفی استعاری و فرصتهای یادگیری زبان
هدف این تحقیق, تحلیل استعاری عقاید زبان آموزان در مورد شرایط کنونی و ایده آل تدریس و یادگیری زبان انگلیسی در مدارس و مؤسسات زبان و تاثیر این شرایط در چگونگی یادگیری آنهاست. به منظور بررسی کیفی از زبان آموزان مؤسسات و مدارس خواسته شده که نظرات خود درباره شرایط کنونی و ایده آل تدریس و یادگیری زبان را در قالب استعاره با کامل کردن جملات ناتمام، بیان کنند. بررسی و تقسیم بندی استعاره های بدست آمده ...
[ 9 ] - The effects of the violation of local independence assumption on the person measures under the Rasch model
Local independence of test items is an assumption in all Item Response Theory (IRT) models. That is, the items in a test should not be related to each other. Sharing a common passage, which is prevalent in reading comprehension tests, cloze tests and C-Tests, can be a potential source of local item dependence (LID). It is argued in the literature that LID results in biased parameter estimation ...
[ 10 ] - The Role of Emotioncy in Cognitive Load and Sentence Comprehension of Language Learners
Emotion and cognition are both considered influential factors in language learning. In this study, the role of "emotioncy" (which is a combination of emotion and frequency) in the cognitive load and sentence comprehension of a group of language learners was examined. Emotioncy includes emotions that are evoked by the senses. To this aim, 200 English as a foreign language (EFL) learners were ask...
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