درخت حوزه‌های تخصصی

Listening plays a significant role in daily communication and educational processes. In spite of its importance, listening has long been the neglected skill in second and foreign language acquisition, research, teaching, and assessment. However, on account of the entire challenges EFL learners encounter in classrooms due to the listening complexity, some pre-listening activities as supports in the procedure of teaching listening are proposed by experts in the field. This research investigated 80 male and female learners in 2 groups of 40, who were selected randomly, to determine whether pre-listening activities have a significant effect on listening comprehension of English texts. It also investigated whether there was a significant difference between male and female learners on pre-listening activities in terms of their effects on the comprehension of English texts. To do this, subjects first took a TOFEL test, which served as a pre-test, to make it possible to have homogeneous learners in a control group and an experimental group. In the experimental group, some pre-listening tasks, through which the learners received general prior information about the content of the listening texts, were performed. Then, they listened to and answered some multiple-choice comprehension questions which asked for the specific information in the listening texts. However, the control group’s listening comprehension tasks were destitute of pre-listening activities. The results of the analysis of the data obtained at the end of the experiment revealed that the experimental group performed significantly better than the control group. It also showed that females outperformed the male group. In other words, the treatments appeared to have a significant effect on the performance of the experimental group (and especially female learners therein) in listening comprehension.

هر فرآیند آموزشی و یادگیری استوار بر مجموعه ایی از سبکهای یادگیری و آموزشی است که مبین سیاستهای کلی آموزشی بوده و شناسایی آنها شرط نخستین هر گونه اصلاح در سیستم آموزشی می باشد. هدف پژوهش کیفی و .... حاضر بررسی گرایش معلمان ایرانی زبان انگلیسی نسبت به پنج سبک یادگیری متخصص، دست اندرکار رسمی، الگوی شخصی، تسهیلگر، و مشارکتی و نیز مطالعه تمایلات زبان آموزان ایرانی نسبت به سه سبک یادگیری دیداری، شنیداری، و جنبشی-حرکتی بود. داده های تحقیق با استفاده از پرسشنامه سبکهای آموزشی گرآشا (1996) و نیز پرسشنامه سبکهای یادگیری بارش (1991) به دست آمد که از نمونه 30 نفری معلمان و 300 نفری زبان آموزان به دست آمده بود. آمار توصیفی داده های تحقیق نشان داد که بیشتر زبان آموزان ایرانی به سبکهای یادگیری دیداری و جنبشی-حرکتی و اکثر معلمان به سبکهای آموزشی تسهیل گر و مدل شخصی تمایل دارند، در حالیکه سبک یادگیری شنیداری و سبک آموزشی مشارکتی کمترین فراوانی ها را نشان می داد. نتایج ضرورت توجه معلمان به سبکهای یادگیری زبان آموزان را مورد توجه قرار می دهد تا بتوانند تدریس خود را هماهنگ با تمایلات زبان آموزان تعدیل نمایند.

Lexical bundles, as building blocks of coherent discourse, have been the subject of much research in the last two decades. While many of such studies have been mainly concerned with exploring variations in the use of these word sequences across different registers and disciplines, very few have addressed the use of some particular groups of lexical bundles within some genres of academy. To address generic variations, this research focused on anticipatory it bundles as a particular structural group of bundles. More specifically, this study chose to investigate range, frequency, and function of these word clusters in applied linguistics research articles and postgraduate writing. Through the use of two big corpora of research articles and postgraduate theses, two text analysis programs, and a functional taxonomy of it bundles, this study found that it bundles were used relatively frequently in both published and postgraduate writing. Functional analysis showed that anticipatory it lexical bundles served a wide variety of functions in both genres investigated. This study also revealed that some anticipatory it lexical bundles commonly used by students in their postgraduate writing did not count as bundles in research articles, both in terms of variety and frequency. As for implications, the study calls for the incorporation of such clusters in L2 and/or EAP (English for Academic Purposes).