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This study was an attempt to examine the relationship between EFL students’ EI, their gender, and writing performance. To this end, 30 female and 27 male English B.A. students, studying at Allameh Tabataba’i University, participated in this study. After checking the homogeneity of the participants through a TOEFL test, Bar-On EQ-i questionnaire (Bar-On, 1997) was administered in order to measure the participants’ emotional intelligence. Besides, their writing performance was measured by their writing course final grades. Three Pearson product moment correlation coefficients and a Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) were run to analyze the relationships and interactions among the variables of emotional intelligence, gender, and writing performance. The findings revealed that there was a positive relationship between the participants’ EI and their writing performance. Furthermore, the female participants had a higher emotional intelligence compared to the male participants. However, no difference was found between the male and female participants’ writing performance. The obtained results of this study have had several implications in the fields of English teaching, language testing, and syllabus design and materials development.

This study was aimed at investigating the effect of collaborative assessment, as compared to that of static assessment, on the EFL learners’ reading comprehension, metacognitive strategies, and critical thinking. In this mixed-methods research design study, 62 intermediate EFL learners out of a population of 79 English language learners, were randomly selected and divided into two groups of experimental and control with 31 participants in each group. They were both female and male, who were administered a meta-cognitive strategy and critical thinking questionnaire and a reading comprehension test at the pretest and posttest stage of the study. Furthermore, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 participants and six sessions of the course were picked for observation. A multivariate ANOVA (MANOVA) test was run and the obtained results revealed that the students in the experimental group showed statistically significant gains on the reading comprehension and metacognitive strategy as compared with the participants in the control group but did not show any significant difference on their critical thinking. Similarly, the analysis of the interviews and classroom observations provided important themes which revealed that the students found collaborative assessment a very fruitful and practical way of promoting their reading skills and strategies mainly metacognitive strategies.

Pratiquer un enseignement utile et durable et maîtriser efficacement une langue étrangère est le désir de tous les enseignants et apprenants de langue étrangère. Cet article vise à examiner l’efficacité de l’activité en groupe dans le processus de l’enseignement/apprentissage du FLE chez les apprenants iraniens. Notre hypothèse principal repose sur le fait que, grâce à l’activité en groupe, les apprenants iraniens peuvent mieux parvenir aux capacités telles que l’autonomie actionnelle, la pensée de l’auto-évaluation, l’autocorrection, l’autocritique, l’évaluation des critiques des autres par rapport à eux-mêmes; de même ils peuvent profiter des critiques des autres sur la base de l’interaction avec leurs coéquipiers. Ainsi, Ce travail de recherche mettra l’accent sur les avantages et les inconvénients de l’activité en groupe. Les résultats acquis par l’étude du terrain nous amène à constater que le recours à des activités interactives maximisait la participation des apprenants, renforçait la motivation, développait la pensée critique. Ainsi, l’activité en groupe intégrait les situations du monde réel et immédiat au contenu et encourageait les apprenants à approfondir les connaissances enseignées.

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.

دعوتنامه ی ازدواج به عنوان گونه ای اجتماعی و فرهنگی ویژه، فرصتی شایان توجه را برای مقایسه ی ارزش های فرهنگی اجتماعی منعکس شده در محتوای نوشتاری و ترکیب قسمت های مختلف این گونه در جوامع مختلف زبانی فراهم می نماید. با استفاده ازآموزش گونه ای می توان دانش آموزان را با این گونه و اجزای مختلف تشکیل دهنده ی آن آشنا نمود. آموزش گونه ای این فرصت را به دانش آموزان می دهد که گونه های شناخته شده و بارز در زبان اول و دومشان را مطالعه نموده و اجزای تشکیل دهنده مشترک و همچنین اختصاصی گونه ها را با نگاهی میان فرهنگی و میان زبانی بررسی کنند. تحقیق حاضر بر آن بوده است که دعوتنامه ی ازدواج را به وسیله ی دو روش مکمل و هم پوشاننده ی تحلیل گونه ای و تحلیل انتقادی گفتمان بررسی نماید. تعداد 100 کارت( از هر جامعه 50 کارت) جمع آوری و مورد تجزیه و تحلیل مفایسه ای قرار گرفتند. نتایج تحلیل گونه ای نشان داد که کارت دعوت عروسی در هر دو جامعه زبانی شامل بخش های مشابه و مختلفی در ساختار گونه ای است. نتایج تحلیل انتقادی گفتمان نشان داد که سطح سنتی بودن، مذهبی بودن،، مرد سالاری و سطح تحصیلات از تاثیر گذارترین عوامل بر گونه دعوت نامه ازدواج در هردو جامعه هستند اما شدت تاثیر این عوامل در این دو جامعه زبانی یکسان نیست. نتایج این تحقیق عوامل فرهنگی و اجتماعی حاکم بر دو جامعه ی زبانی ایرانی آمریکایی را مشخص میکند