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هدف این مطالعه بررسی تاثیر تفاوت های فردی بر توانایی های کاربردشناسی متغیر در فراگیران زبان انگلیسی می باشد. 48 فراگیرزبان انگلیسی ژاپنی از یک دانشگاه انگلیسی زبان در ژاپن در این تحقیق شرکت کردند. این فراگیران در یک آزمون کاربردشناسی شفاهی که توانایی آن ها را در مورد تولید دو عمل گفتارِ درخواست کردن و نظر دادن در دو موقعیت با تحمیل کم و زیاد می سنجید، شرکت کردند. سه عامل (مهارت کلی، گرایش به سمت مطالعات انگلیسی و مهارت دسترسی واژگانی) اندازه گیری شد و تاثیر آن بردو عامل تناسب و روانی کلام درعمل گفتار تولید شده سنجیده شد. نتایج نشان می دهد که عوامل فردی تاثیر بسزایی بر تغییرات کاربردشناسی می گذارد، اما این تاثیرات در دو عامل تناسب و روانی کلام متفاوت بود.

در این تحقیق ابتدا حافظه ی کاری و مدل پیشنهادی آن توصیف می گردد. سپس طرزساخت یک تست حافظه ی کاری به همراه تشریح کامل آزمایش هایی که روی آن صورت گرفته ارائه می گردد. به طور دقیق تر، این تست شامل 64 جمله فارسی می باشد که با ویژگی های خاصی توسط یک کارشناس زبان فارسی تهیه و سپس بر روی سه دسته زبان آموزکه جمعا 74 نفر بودند امتحان شد و نواقص آن طی این سه مرحله بر طرف شد. این تست نهایتا در یک تحقیق بزرگ، جهت اندازه گیری ظرفیت حافظه ی 140 نفر زبان آموز به کار گرفته شد. نتایج تحلیل عناصر تست، پایایی 840 0/ و 7900/ را نشان داد. این بدان مفهوم است که تست ساخته شده قابل اعتماد بوده و می تواند در تحقیقات دیگر مورد استفاده قرار گیرد. همچنین محققان زبانهای دیگر می توانند از فرایند طی شده در این تحقیق جهت تهیه تست حافظه در زبان خود پیروی کنند.

This study scrutinized the relationship between utilizing language learning strategies, academic fields, and reading ability in reading comprehension test performance of Iranian postgraduate EAP students. The participants were 947 students, who answered a reading comprehension test and a learning strategy questionnaire successively in one session. The gathered data were subjected to a set of parametric statistical analyses, including descriptive statistics, one-way analysis of variance, Tukey HSD and Duncan tests. The findings manifested significant differences among the participants in different fields in employing overall, direct, and indirect strategies. A statistically positive relationship was found between the participants’ reading ability and use of overall, cognitive, compensation, metacognitive, and affective strategies. The findings reflected that the actual ability of language learners was significantly influenced by some nonlinguistic factors, and the observed scores did not represent their true ability. The findings can provide an empirical evidence for Bachman’s (1990) as well as Bachman and Palmer's (1996, 2010) conceptual frameworks of language use due to the impact of nonlinguistic factors on language ability of L2 learners in test-taking process. The findings can help language teachers improve instructional reading programs, decrease error of measurement, and narrow the gap between more successful and less successful learners in different fields of study.

The current study aims to investigate how Iranian EFL students make use of compliments in Persian and English. To that end, 50 students majoring in English as a foreign language from Isfahan and Tehran, and Sheikhbahaee universities were asked to respond to a Discourse Completion Test consisting of six situations in both English and Persian. They were asked to put themselves in those situations and respond to the compliments made on them. The results of the study showed that in addition to pre-existing categories of compliment responses, Iranians made use of other strategies not included in the pre-existing categories of compliments. Furthermore, in both English and Persian languages, students made use of compliments in the same order: accept, evade and reject strategies. The results of this study could add to crosscultural findings, differences or similarities regarding compliments as a beneficial way of studying speech acts.

This study aimed at providing learners with an opportunity not only to bring together their core and disciplinary knowledge to acquire major skills of learning English as a foreign language (EFL), and the intellectual challenge of these issues at the interface of media, language and religion, but also help the materials generators to produce suitable types of content to be delivered through the medium of mobile technology. Therefore, it sought to examine the new way of teaching EFL in the form of correspondence with respect to Iranian learners' native culture and language. For the purposes of this study, English was the target language for 680 Iranian students with pre-intermediate level of language proficiency whose native languages were Persian, Arabic, Georgian, and Turkish. This study took as its point of departure the existence of important differences between the two learning materials (off the shelf vs. Islamic culture) types; thus, applying the Qur'ānic criteria of intelligence, knowledge and virtue parallel with the digital representation of common textbook materials, materials delivery was adapted to the cellphone screen to be accessed by learners' in 18 virtual sessions. Learners took part in two summative and 18 formative components included in the assessment design of this study. Also, they all answered a questionnaire which yielded information concerning their attitude towards the target language, and learning through the wireless technology. Learners' short texting correspondence as well as their performance in battery and their answers to items of questionnaires formed the reference for analyzing the results. The gains from English Islamic materials were outweighed by the effects of obtaining materials which involved more categorized cases.