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Informed by the expectancy-value and social cognitive theories of learning, the present study proposed a path model to investigate the impact of motivational beliefs as defined by listening self-efficacy, three types of goal orientations, and task value on self-regulation of Iranian EFL learners, in addition to the unique contribution of each to the variability in the listening comprehension score. Results of path analysis revealed significant positive effect of listening self-efficacy and self-regulation on students’ listening comprehension and task value on self-regulation. Unlike performance approach goals, mastery and performance avoidance goals demonstrated a significant impact on participants’ self-regulation but no significant direct effect of any goals on listening achievement was detected.

This study was an attempt to investigate the developmental rate of fluency, accuracy and complexity among 12 EFL learners within the framework of chaos complexity theory. To carry out this study, 6 female and 6 male participants in two levels of proficiency (pre-and upper-intermediate) were put in two classes taught by the same teacher and following the same course. Every two months (for a period of four months) they were asked to write a narrative using the pictorial sequence of a story, and they were also asked to tell the same story orally after three days. Their productions were analyzed for fluency, accuracy and complexity (lexical and grammatical). The results, compared inter and inrta-individually, revealed that there was no common pattern of development among different learners with different proficiency or gender. A closer examination of the oral and written productions of these learners showed that the emergence of complexity, fluency, and accuracy could be seen as a system adapting to a changing context, in which the language resources of each individual were uniquely transformed through use and in which chaos, dynamicity, unpredictability, and self-organization were clearly observed in the participants’ productions.

Receptive language skill refers to answering appropriately to another person's spoken language. A lot of teachers try to develop receptive language skills in their language learners. When receptive language skills are not appropriately acquired, learners may miss significant learning opportunities resulting in delays in the development and acquisition of spoken language. The goals of this paper are to explain the term reading, elaborate reading strategy, discuss metacognitive strategies, and review self-managing learning strategies and teacher-managing learning strategies. The literature review demonstrated that teachers can play a key role in helping learners acquire their receptive skills in language learning. It can be also concluded that receptive skills can be acquired through the active involvement and effort of the learners in learning English language and learners should develop their own learning strategies in order to work with written material or the spoken word.

مطالعه کنونی با تکیه بر نظریه اجتماعی فرهنگی ویگوتسکی، تاثیر تعامل دوسویه هم سطح و غیرهمسطح در دانشجویان ایرانی را بر درک و تولید کنش های گفتاری درخواست و عذرخواهی بررسی کرده است. مشارکت کنندگان شامل 25 زبان آموز بودند که به صورت تصادفی در گروههای کنترل و آزمایش (تعامل) قرار گرفتند. مشارکت کنندکان گروه آزمایش براساس نمراتشان در پیش آزمون که شامل آزمون شنیداری منظورشناسی و آزمون شفاهی تکمیل کلام بود در گروههای همسطح و غیرهمسطح قرار گرفتند. هر دو گروه آزمایش و کنترل تحت آموزش فرامنظورشناسی (metapragmatic) در مورد کنش های گفتاری مورد مطالعه قرار گرفتند، اما گروه آزمایش به مدت 9 جلسه درگیر فعالیت های تعاملی حل مساله نیز شدند. پس از آن پس آزمون برگزار گردید که نتایج آن حاکی از عملکرد بهتر گروه آزمایش در مقایسه با گروه کنترل بود. علاوه بر این گروه غیرهمسطح در هر دو شاخص درک و تولید کنش های گفتاری عملکرد بهتری را نسبت به گروه همسطح ارایه داد. نتایج به دست آمده پیامدهای آموزشی برای معلمان در زمینه نحوه گروه بندی زبان آموزان در فعالیت های مشارکتی دارد.

The aim of this qualitative study is to explore the role of the micropolitics of schools for gifted students in the EFL teachers’ professional interests in the workplace. Results of interviews revealed that to establish their professional interests, teachers involved in conflict and rivalry as well as collaboration and coalition. Furthermore, teachers’ micropolitical actions were interrelated with their efficacy beliefs. Self-interests such as public recognition and high visibility were sought as they provided a positive feedback on teachers’ professional behavior and substantiated their efficacy. Material interests such as the use of the smart boards, the Internet, and extra resources were further means through which they could present their informed and efficacious character to others. Organizational interests also confirmed teachers’ efficacy since only effective teachers were recruited in schools for gifted students. Teachers’ social interests achieved through developing affinity and rapport with others, particularly the principals, were the prerequisite for the establishment of all other professional interests. The findings were discussed with reference to the importance of fostering micropolitical literacy and the effect of information on school micropolitics on teachers’ ability to develop appropriate coping strategies.

ترجمه شناسی شاخه ای از علوم انسانی است که به مطالعة سازمان یافتة ابعاد نظری و عملی ترجمه می پردازد. از آن جا که این شاخة تقریباً نوپا به عنوان رشته ای دانشگاهی در بسیاری از دانشگاه ها تدریس می شود، نیاز است تا بیش تر به معرفی و منابع آموزشی آن بپردازیم. در این مقاله سعی شده تا کتاب مقدمه ا ی بر ترجمه شناسی اثر ماتیو گیدر که یکی از منابع جدید در حوزة ترجمه شناسی است معرفی شود. این کتاب در ده فصل مسائل و چالش های ترجمه شناسی از بدو پیدایش آن تا به امروز را مطالعه می کند و با تکیه بر جنبه های آموزشی تصویری جامع و کامل از ترجمه شناسی ارائه می دهد. این اثر اولین کتاب از مجموعة «ترادوکتو» به سرپرستی ماتیو گیدر است.

This paper presents a detailed examination of learning transfer from an English for Specific Academic Purposes course to authentic discipline-specific writing tasks. To enhance transfer practices, a new approach in planning writing tasks and materials selection was developed. Concerning the conventions of studies in learning transfer that acknowledge different learning preferences, the instructional resources were designed to be multimodal to engage all participants in construing the principles of academic writing. To promote the relevance of writing practices and their transferability to future professional settings and to ensure the success of the multimodal presentations, a practice of team-teaching between the English Language and content lecturers was rigorously embraced. A sample population of 28 postgraduate medical students from Jondi Shapur University of Medical Sciences in Ahvaz participated in this research. The data were collected through interviews and writing samples throughout a whole semester and were subsequently analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively based on James' (2009) checklist of writing outcomes. The results indicated that the instruction did stimulate transfer from the course to the authentic tasks notably in the skills associated with organization and language accuracy; however, the transfer of some outcomes appeared to be constrained particularly the use of punctuation marks. Implications of the findings for theory, practice, and future research in discipline-specific writing practices are discussed.

موضوع این مقاله نقد و بررسی کتاب خواندن متون ساده، تألیف زهره جوزدانی و نازیتا عظیمی میبدی، از انتشارات سمت است که برای درسی با همین عنوان در مقطع کارشناسی زبان فرانسه و به دست دو تن از مدرسان این رشته تألیف شده است. این کتاب شامل گزیده هایی از متون ادبی نویسندگان و شاعران فرانسوی از قرن هفدهم تا اواخر قرن بیستم است، به اضافة بخش هایی که مؤلفان برای درک بهتر متون به آن ها اضافه کرده اند. بررسی ای که انجام دادیم نشان می دهد که کتاب از نظر شکل، محتوا و هم چنین رعایت اصول روش تحقیق اشکالات اساسی دارد که باعث می شود دانشجویان در خوانش آن با مشکلات فراوان روبه رو شوند. در نتیجه و در مجموع، این کتاب نمی تواند منبع مناسبی برای درس یادشده باشد و تا آن جا که می دانیم، کم نیستند مدرسانی که ترجیح می دهند از منابع دیگری برای تدریس «خواندن متون ساده» استفاده کنند. بنابراین، باید بازنویسی و اصلاحاتی اساسی در این کتاب اعمال شود تا بتواند در راستای اهداف تعیین شده استفاده شود.