in one pole of the continuum of language learning, theoreticians and practitioners traditionally consider english as english as a second language or english as a foreign language. however, in the other pole of this continuum where english is thought of as the most effective tool for international communication, it is referred to as a lingua franca. those who favor an approach to english growing...

phatic communion is a cultural concept which differs across cultures. according to hofstede (2001), the u.s. tends to have individualistic culture; however, asian countries tend to have collectivistic cultures. these cultures view phatic communion differently. in individualistic cultures like u.s., phatic communion reflects speakers’ socio-cultural relationships in conversations. to see whether...

the present study sought to examine whether a task-based approach could have an impact on raising awareness of collocations. moreover, it sought to investigate the facilitative role of consciousness-raising tasks of collocations in the communicative instances of use. to this end, 68 intermediate learners of english were selected via a placement test. the participants were taught with classroom ...

the construct of self-efficacy has received increasing attention in research over the past two decades. many studies have been carried out 1.3 significance of the study this study has pedagogical implications since improving students’ self- efficacy and autonomy is important for promoting actual performance on classroom academic tasks. in academic settings, it has been shown that self-effi...

چکیده پژوهش حاضر به منظور« طراحی الگوی برنامه درسی چندفرهنگی تربیت معلم ابتدایی جمهوری اسلامی ایران» انجام یافته است. برای این منظور ابتدا پیشینه نظری و پژوهشی آموزش چندفرهنگی مطالعه و بر اساس آن چهار سوال پژوهشی زیر طرح گردید: 1. اصول تعلیم و تربیت چندفرهنگی جمهوری اسلامی ایران کدامند؟ 2. در چارچوب اصول حاکم بر تعلیم و تربیت چندفرهنگی جمهوری اسلامی ایران، برنامه درسی چندفرهنگی دارای چه وی...

recent years have witnessed an increased attention to form focused instruction and consciousness raising activities (ellis, 2002; doughty & williams, 1998) on the one hand and extensive and meaningful exposure to the target language (klapper & rees, 2003; day & bamford, 1998) on the other. due to significance attributed to above mentioned issues by scholars, this study attempted to bridge them ...