in the past couple of decades sociocultural theory of sla and its implications in efl contexts have attracted attentions of research circles worldwide and aroused some controversies. firth and wagner (1997) have questioned the principles of the cognitive view which gives importance to mental constructs in favor of sociocultural view which highlights social and contextual constructs. but if soci...

از دهه ی 1970 میلادی و در پی بروز پیامدهای منفی حاصل از تمرکز بر رشد اقتصادی و همچنین برجسته شدن جنبه های اجتماعی توسعه، مفهوم کیفیت زندگی به عنوان شاخصی برای ارزیابی و جهت دادن به برنامه ها و سیاست های توسعه در سطوح مختلف و همچنین اصلاح و تقویت پاردایم های توسعه به ویژه از حیث توسعه ی اجتماعی مورد توجه قرار گرفت. در سال های اخیر تعداد پذیرش دانشجو در رشته های مختلف و به خصوص در رشته های علوم...

‏‎the investigation would certainly offer implications for translation, where the translators mostly adhere to only the ideational meaning of the sl text neglecting its textual meaning, a practice which mostly leads to target language texts which have lower readability(compared with their source language counterparts) due to their displaced thematization strategies.‎‏

the debate whether esp teachers need to have knowledge of the specialized field they are teaching has been an issue in the literature over the last two decades. the aim of conducting this study was to explore iranian learners’ and instructors’ beliefs and attitudes concerning the role of specialized knowledge in teaching esp classes. a seventeen item questionnaire was administered to 400 esp le...

the present study was an attempt to determine the types of motivation and levels of foreign language learning anxiety among efl students studying at azad and state universities in kermanshah and to determine the relationship between these two factors and language proficiency and gender. to this end, the foreign language learning motivation scale, by deci and ryan )1985(, were administered to 12...

abstract the aim of this study was threefold: (1) to investigate the relationship between knowledge of semantic prosody and efl learners general language proficiency; (2) to examine the relationship between qualitative as well as quantitative knowledge of words, and (3) to compare the performance of efl learner on receptive and productive measures of semantic prosody. the study is based on a...

dynamic assessment according to vygotskys sociocultural theory, states that instruction and assessment are interrelated. using static forms of assessment with second and foreign language students could do more harm than good. many teachers neglect to take account of the complexity involved in learning a second or foreign language and often wonder why learning of a language take so long. thi...

شواهد انکارناپذیری در عصر جدید وجود دارند که حاکی از کاهش شادی در جوامع بشری است. موج فزاینده ی افسردگی، پایین آمدن سن خودکشی (استفاده ی مضاعف از شادکننده های موقت و مصنوعی)، افزایش طلاق و بزهکاری و بسیاری از مشکلات روانی – اجتماعی دیگر، واقعیت های انکارناپذیری هستند که نشان می دهند شادی در حال رخت بربستن از جوامع است. این پژوهش با رویکری جامعه شناختی به موضوع شادی پرداخته است. روش تحقیق در این...