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Fluent reading is a multifaceted ability that integrates several linguistic and non-linguistic processes. Accordingly, recognizing the critical components of fluent reading is highly significant in planning and implementing effective reading programs. This study was undertaken to evaluate the predictive power of syntactic knowledge, vocabulary breadth, and metacognitive awareness of reading strategies in the reading fluency of Iranian EFL learners. To this end, a sample of 149 Iranian EFL language learners took the Vocabulary Levels Test, Survey of Reading Strategies Questionnaire (SORS), a TOEFL PBT, and a fluency test. The linear regression results indicated that vocabulary breadth was the first predictor of readers' performance on reading fluency, followed by metacognitive awareness of reading strategies. At the same time, syntactic knowledge was not entered into the regression model. Moreover, the findings confirmed the contribution of both linguistic and non-linguistic processes to reading fluency. Having a clear picture of fluency components can be advantageous to teaching reading comprehension and test score predictability.

The importance of sport as a social, psychological, and cultural agenda in today’s world can by no means be denied. This is, as a rule, reflected in all its aspects through the language of media. The present descriptive study has thus tried to investigate how the language of sports media shape sport consumers such as coaches, players, the audience, and sporting officials at large. For this purpose, fifty soccer games were investigated during an eight-month period. The data collected from TV interviews, newspaper reports, and a sporting talk show called Navad (i.e. 90) were transcribed and analyzed with a CDA perspective in view, for the coaches, players, the audience, and officials. As a result, twelve categories were extracted based on the coaches’ reactions to their failure, from which the most salient was referees’ judgments. A close look at these categories reveal a circular relationship among sports media, coaches’ reactions to their failure or triumph, the audience interpretation of their favorite teams, and macro decisions of the officials in this field. The findings of this study can contribute to the development of a better and more appropriate environment among the four mentioned groups involved in soccer game in Iran.

Cet article présenté lors de la journée internationale des professeurs de français en 2019 débute par une courte description de la situation de l’enseignement universitaire de la traduction en Iran. Notre objectif est de montrer que l'enseignement pratique de la traduction doit être comme tout autre domaine d'enseignement créatif et innovant. L'innovation et l'avancement des connaissances sont les forces motrices de l'université, mais on constate que malgré les propositions des idées pour innover dans les cours pratiques de traduction la situation ne change pas, les méthodologies employées n’évoluent presque pas.  Comment les formateurs doivent-ils innover pour adapter leur enseignement aux changements vécus par la société ? Nous allons montrer que l'innovation dans la formation des traducteurs passe par la formation des enseignants, la prise en compte de la composante métacognitive de l’apprentissage et la responsabilisation des apprenants dans le déroulement des cours. En donnant des rôles actifs aux apprenants on leur fait comprendre la valeur sociale de leur présence physique et surtout active dans la salle de cours. Cette mise en valeur des apprenants profite à toute la classe grâce à un apprentissage collaboratif.

L’enseignement du français au lycée marocain est en crise, tant et si bien que les choix épistémologiques et didactiques afférents à l’enseignement de la littérature en particulier, trop centrés sur une approche formaliste et techniciste du texte littéraire, ne garantissent pas véritablement les possibilités pour le sujet-lecteur-scripteur de se construire dans et par les actes de lire et d’écrire. A la lumière de ces hypothèses, nous examinerons la construction de l’objet «littérature» à travers une pratique enseignante spécifique en essayant de trouver des éléments de réponse aux questions suivantes : quelle conception de la littérature et quelle théorie de la lecture-écriture prennent-elles forme au cours de l’interaction enseignant-élèves ? Quelle configuration ou transformation de l’objet se donne-elle à voir en cette situation d’interaction didactique ? Quelles articulations se présentent-elles entre les postures enseignantes et les postures d’études des élèves ? La réponse à ces questions permettra in fine de mieux saisir les obstacles réels à l'enseignement de la littérature en classe de langue.

New approaches and methods to language learning and teaching have drawn the attention of many researchers. This study aimed at investigating the role of Iranian EFL learners’ attitudes towards the value components of the Partnership Approach (PA) on motivating their active engagement in the learning process. A descriptive research method (survey study) was used, and 72 male and female Iranian EFL students whose ages ranged from 18 to 26 were randomly selected to participate in the study. They were asked to respond to a five-point Likert-scale questionnaire addressing the objectives of the study, and then 30 of the participants were randomly interviewed to reveal the possible consonance with the questionnaire outcomes. The study was conducted at Islamic Azad University (IAU), Najafabad Branch. The findings indicated that although both male and female participants showed significantly positive attitudes towards the value components of the PA, except for the inclusivity value, female participants held significantly higher positive attitudes. The highest motivational value from both male and female participants’ point of view was for the challenge value component. However, reciprocity and inclusivity were the value components with the lowest motivational values from the male and female participants’ point of view, respectively. Focusing on the importance of the psychological factors in education, the findings of the study may encourage both education policy-makers and practitioners in the field to think more critically, and make more reasonable decisions for their policy and practice.