Elaheh Sotoudehnama
Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran
[ 1 ] - Oral Presentation vs. Free Discussion: Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners’ Speaking Proficiency and Perception
Speaking is a significant skill that many foreign language learners are trying to master. In this study, the effectiveness of two different speaking activities, i.e. oral presentation vs. free discussion, was investigated from quantitative and qualitative points of view. To achieve this purpose, 44 intermediate learners from a language institute in Tehran participated in the study. Half of the ...
[ 2 ] - Nonverbal Messages and Intercultural Communication
Intercultural communication takes place when individuals influenced by different cultural communities negotiate shared meanings in interaction. As every country has its own cultural value system; consequently, nonverbal communication is different from country to country. Therefore, having knowledge about the similarities and differences of nonverbal communication in different cultures increases...
[ 3 ] - On the impact of teaching experience on EFL instructors’ self-assessment of their instructional effectiveness
Teaching experience exerts a remarkable influence on instruction quality. The present study explores the role teaching experience plays in EFL university instructors’ self-assessment (SA) accuracy and its congruence with students’ assessment of it. Furthermore, it delves into the instructors’ perceptions of how their SA of instructional effectiveness is altered as they obtain experience in thei...
[ 4 ] - The Effect of Teaching Vocabulary through Synonymous, Semantically Unrelated, and Hyponym Sets on EFL Learners’ Retention
Many textbooks include semantically related words and sometimes teachers add synonyms, antonyms, etc. to the words in order to present new vocabulary items without questioning the possible effects. This study sought to investigate the effect of teaching vocabulary through synonym, semantically unrelated, and hyponym sets based on Higa’s (1963) proposed continuum. A total of 120 Iranian intermed...
[ 5 ] - The Relationship between Spiritual Intelligence, Multiple Intelligences, and Language Learning Strategies
This study is an attempt to extend our current knowledge by exploring the relationship between spiritual intelligence (SI) and multiple intelligences (MI) on one hand and the relationship between spiritual intelligence and language learning strategies (LLS) on the other hand among 30 MA TEFL learners of a state university in Tehran. To this end, King's Spiritual Intelligence Self-Report Invento...
[ 6 ] - The Impact of MA TEFL Curriculum on Student Teachers’ Self-Efficacy
The importance of professional development programs in enhancing teacher self-efficacy has attracted the attention of researchers in the realm of teacher education for two decades. However, the role of university programs and their curriculum in developing teachers’ self-efficacy has not been given adequate attention, specifically in educating EFL teachers. This study investigated the impact of...
[ 7 ] - Massed/Distributed Sentence Writing: Post Tasks of Noticing Activity
The purpose of the study was to activate the passive lexical knowledge through noticing and to investigate the effect of sentence writing as the post task of noticing activity on strengthening the effect of noticing. Forty-two Iranian female adult upper-intermediate English students of a state university in 2 homogenous groups participated in noticing the lexical items whose production were not...
[ 8 ] - The Impact of Training EFL Learners in Self-Regulation of Reading on their EFL Literal and Critical Reading Comprehension: Implementing a Model
Self-regulation is the ability to regulate one’s thoughts and actions to attain goals. Accordingly, self-regulated learning (SRL) involves plans and behaviors to achieve learning goals. With this in mind, in this study we investigated whether training English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners on the basis of a Self-regulated Learning (SRL) model improved their literal and critical reading co...
[ 9 ] - The Impact of Guided Writing Practice on the Speaking Proficiency and Attitude of EFL Elementary Learners
Writing and speaking are the productive skills of a language and share similar components. However, there has been little attempt to investigate the impact of writing practice on the speaking proficiency of the learners. The present study using a pretest-posttest controlled group design in a quasi-experimental approach investigated the effect of guided writing practice on the speaking proficien...
[ 10 ] - Cognitive Task Complexity and Iranian EFL Learners’ Written Linguistic Performance across Writing Proficiency Levels
Recently tasks, as the basic units of syllabi, and the cognitive complexity, as the criterion for sequencing them, have caught many second language researchers’ attention. This study sought to explore the effect of utilizing the cognitively simple and complex tasks on high- and low-proficient EFL Iranian writers’ linguistic performance, i.e., fluency, accuracy, lexical complexity, and structura...
[ 11 ] - Effect of Gender – Oriented Content Familiarity and Test Type on Reading Comprehension
One important issue that any material or test designer should bear in mind is to be careful about developing teaching and testing reading materials which would not be to the benefit of a group of readers or examinees and to the detriment of some others. One of the factors which may cause difference between the performances of English learners or test takers is the selection of reading tests wit...
[ 12 ] - تأثیر آموزش خودنظم‌بخشی خواندن و درک‌مطلب به زبانآموزان سطوح پیشرفته و متوسط بر نگرش آنان به خواندن در انگلیسی به‌عنوان زبان خارجی: اجرای یک مدل یادگیری خودنظم‌یافته
توانایی تنظیم و کنترل افکار، رفتار، انگیزه‌ها و اعمال برای رسیدن به اهداف خودنظم‌بخشی نام دارد، و یادگیری خودنظم‌یافته متضمن برنامه‌ها و رفتارهایی استراتژیک برای تحقق اهداف یادگیری است. این پژوهش درصدد پاسخ به این سؤال است که آیا آموزش مدل یادگیری خودنظم‌یافته زیمزمن و مویلان به گروهی از دانش‌آموزان ایرانی بر نگرش آنان به خواندن در انگلیسی به‌عنوان زبان خارجی تأثیر مثبت دارد. دیگر هدف آن ...
[ 13 ] - یادگیری واژگان زبان دوم: ریشه شناسی یا لغات مترادف ؟
یادگیری واژگان زبان دوم: ریشهشناسی یا واژههای مترادف؟ الهه ستوده‌نما[1] فرزانه سلگی[2] تاریخ دریافت: 6/11/92 تاریخ تصویب: 7/2/93 چکیده تجربة تدریس نشان میدهد که گاه ریشهشناسی میتواند یادگیری واژگان زبان دوم را بهبود بخشد و بعضی اوقات دانستن واژههای مترادف به افزایش دانش واژگانی زبانآموزان کمک میکند. از آنجا که این دو روش از روشهای متداول آموزش زبان هستند بناب...
[ 14 ] - رابطۀ منبع کنترل، اضطراب امتحان و جنسیت با عملکرد شنیداری در دانشجویان ایرانی زبان انگلیسی
رابطۀ منبع کنترل، اضطراب امتحان و جنسیت با عملکرد شنیداری در دانشجویان ایرانی زبان انگلیسی الهه ستوده‌نما [1] سیده سمیه حسینی اطاقسرایی [2] تاریخ دریافت: 1/4/1390 تاریخ تصویب: 10/2/1391 چکیده در پژوهش حاضر، رابطۀ منبع کنترل، اضطراب امتحان، و جنسیت را با عملکرد شنیداری دانشجویان ایرانی زبان انگلیسی بررسی کردهایم. شرکتکنندگان در این تحقیق، 96 نفر از دانشجویان زبان انگلیس...
[ 15 ] - Investigation Into Researcher Identity in Qualitative Research Articles in Applied Linguistics Journals Through Lens of CDA
Recently, constructing professional identity has received an increasing attention. By adopting and adapting analytical tools of critical discourse analysis (CDA), this study explored the ways through which identities of the qualitative researchers had been projected in 4 applied linguistics articles. This study intended to find out whether the authors of qualitative research articles in applied...
[ 16 ] - A Qualitative Analysis of the Language Learning Experiences of Students with Dyslexia
Objective: Although certain dimensions of foreign language learning in dyslexia have already been examined in the literature, no study has yet explored the language learning experiences of Iranian students with dyslexia, and parents’ views of the language learning experience of their children has also been neglected in the international literature despite its importance. The present study aimed...
[ 17 ] - The Effect of “Narrow Reading” on Learning Mid-Frequency Vocabulary: The Role of Genre and Author
This study investigated the effect of Narrow Reading (NR) on learning mid-frequency words. Vocabulary Size Test (VST) designed by Nation and Beglar (2007) was administered as the first pre-test to 196 students, from among whom 91 students whose vocabulary size ranged between 2100- 3500-word families, , became the target of this study and were randomly c...
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