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پژوهش حاضر به منظور بررسی ارتباط میان سه متغیر مهم در معلمان زبان انگلیسی و موفقیت دانش آموزان آنها در فراگیری زبان خارجی انجام گردید. بدین منظور، به 105 معلم زبان انگلیسی از شهرهای شیراز و همدان، سه ابزار جهت جمع آوری اطلاعات داده شد: ابزار آموزش تفکر عمیق ( اکبری، بهزادپور، و دادوند، 2010)، پرسشنامه ی نگرش ها و عقاید در کنترل کلاس ((Martin, Yin, & Baldwin, 1998، و پرسشنامه ی راهبردهای یادگیری زبان (Ardasheva & Tretter, 2013). همچنین نمره آزمون نهایی درس زبان انگلیسی2673 دانش آموز پایه سوم دبیرستان این معلمان جمع آوری شد. نتایج آزمون همبستگی پیرسون نشان داد که ارتباط معناداری بین خصوصیات معلمان زبان انگلیسی و موفقیت زبان آموزان آنها وجود دارد. نتایج همچنین نشان داد که میان معلمان مرد و زن از لحاظ میزان تفکر و آگاهی از راهبردهای یادگیری زبان تفاوت معناداری وجود دارد؛ در حالیکه، هیچ تفاوت معناداری میان گرایش های مدیریت کلاس در بین این دو گروه مشاهده نشد. بعلاوه، تجزیه و تحلیل رگرسیون چندگانه نشان داد که این متغیرها، می توانند حدود 47 درصد از واریانس موفقیت دانش آموزان را پیش بینی کند. در نهایت، با توجه به یافته های این پژوهش، پیشنهاداتی عملی جهت افزایش موفقیت زبان اموزان در کلاس های زبان ارئه می شود.

Armed with technological development, the present study aimed at gauging the effectiveness of exposure to news and movies as two types of audiovisual programs in improving language learners’ listening comprehension at the intermediate level. To this end, a listening comprehension test was administered to 108 language learners and finally 60 language learners were selected as intermediate language learners and randomly divided into group one and group two. During the experiment, group one participants had exposure to audiovisual news stories to work on in and outside the classroom. On the contrary, the participants in group two had only exposure to a sample selected utterances extracted from different kinds of movies. At the end of the experiment, both groups took another sample listening test to find out to what extent the participants in each group could enhance their listening comprehension. The results obtained from the posttest were indicative of the fact that the participants who had exposure to news outperformed the participants who had exposure to movies. The findings of the present research seem to indicate that the language input embedded in the type of audiovisual programs which language learners are exposed to is more important than the amount of exposure.

در مقاله حاضر بر اساس تجزیه و تحلیل مثال های متعدد، هدایت نحوی صفات و افعال مرتبط با آن ها به لحاظ واژه سازی در زبان روسی و نحوه بیان آن به زبان فارسی بررسی می شود. در زبان روسی صفت و فعل می توانند به عنوان جزء اصلی گروه واژه و جمله به کار روند و حالت نحوی کلمه وابسته به خود را تعیین کنند. به طور مثال: شبیه به توپ، راضی از پسر، وفادار به قول، به پیروزی ایمان داشتن. نتایج به دست آمده نشان می دهد، هدایت نحوی صفات و افعال مرتبط با آن ها به لحاظ واژه سازی براساس روابط زیر صورت می گیرد: 1. بین هدایت نحوی صفت و فعل تفاوت کامل وجود دارد؛ 2. بین هدایت نحوی صفت و فعل شباهت کامل وجود دارد؛ 3. بین هدایت نحوی صفت و فعل تشابه و تفاوت نسبی وجود دارد. در بیشتر مواقع مفهوم هدایت نحوی صفت و فعل در زبان روسی با استفاده از انواع حروف اضافه: برای، از، به، و ساختار رایی و همچنین ساختار اضافه ای به زبان فارسی بیان می شود.

Nowadays, intercultural communication via email among various groups and societies has been increasingly important as an aspect of communication. This research aims at investigating aspects of politeness meaning negotiation via emails exchanged between English and Persian speakers with different cultural backgrounds. The present study also reveals the potentials for using emails to experience culture as a process of meaning negotiation. To do this, 18 English and Persian speakers (aged 22-60) were asked to exchange emails for 12 weeks. After collecting the required samples, the interplay between the computer-mediated communication, speech act and politeness is explored by using the analytical frameworks of Hyme’s ethnography of communication (1974), Searle’s speech act theory (1969) and Brown and Levinson’s politeness theory (1987). The methodology of this research is descriptive analytical. The results of this research show that “politeness” is not a stable construct. Rather it is constantly (re)negotiated by the interactants who take into account the relevant contextualization cues. In addition saving the face of the sender and the receiver is concerned simultaneously in the process of email exchanging.

Concerns over the phony nature of textbooks and artificiality of their contents in reflecting authentic language have been raised by a number of researchers. It has been argued that many language teaching programs result in the failure of learners of English to successfully communicate in the target language. The problem with these programs is that there is no general agreement about the success of these materials in developing the pragmatic competence necessary for interlocutors’ mutually intelligible communication[D1] . Hence, this study explored communicated requests for nonverbal/verbal goods and services (RNGS/RVGS) in the dialogues of 5 textbooks and 8 English movies. The utterances of the textbooks and movies were evaluated on six criteria deriving from research on speech act theory, politeness, and conversation analysis. These included whether the textbooks discussed second pair parts, the forms of requests, the context of request occurrence, the nature of the devices through which the requests are mitigated, and multi-turn request forms. The results of the analysis revealed that, except for re-requests and dispreferred responses of RNGS,textbooks’ strategies including forms, face, contexts of RVGS, and strategies of RNGSwere not realized through adequate examples compared to their variants in movies.Most importantly,except for bald on record, internal mitigators of RVGS, external mitigators, and direct and indirect forms of RNGS, the other request strategies in the textbooks showed less variety than those of their counterparts in the movies. Internally mitigated RVGS were the onlystrategies variouslyexploited in the textbooks.The findings revealed that textbook designers should improve their instructional materials by incorporatingmore accurate samples of communicated requests in their future textbooks.

This paper focuses on the most prominent theta roles used in the Sindhi language. The study attempts to answer to the research question, ‘How are theta roles prominently used in the Sindhi language?’ The data come from the young native Sindhi speakers. Each verb phrase in the data is examined with the help of Carnie’s (2007) ‘Theta Roles and Thematic Relations’ in order to find the prominent theta roles in the Sindhi language. The study finds six prominent theta roles in Sindhi; namely, agent, theme, beneficiary, recipient, goal and locative. According to the findings of Rappaport Hovav (2007), the hierarchy of the theta roles in English is: Agent> Recipient>Experiencer/Goal>Instrument>Patient/Theme>Place; while, the hierarchy of the prominent theta roles in the Sindhi language is: agent>theme>beneficiary>recipient> locative>goal. This finding is not, however, definitive, i.e. broader studies are to be carried out to find the precise hierarchy of the theta roles in Sindhi.