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مفید بودن تدریس تلفظ در تدریس زبان همیشه یک موضوع بحث برانگیز بوده است. اگرچه تحقیقات گذشته نشان می دهد که معلمان نمی توانند تفاوت عمده ای در بهبود تلفظ دانش آموزان خود به وجود آورند، مطالعات جدید نشان می دهد که تلفظ زبان خارجی می تواند با بکار گیری عوامل مشخصی مانند استفاده از عناصرعروضی تا سطح زبان مادری پیشرفت کند. با تاکید بر ارتباطات معنادار و فهم این که تولید سخن تحت تاثیر درک سخن می باشد، نیاز به ادغام فعالیت های عروضی و ارتباطی برای ایجاد موقعیت هایی که در آن تلفظ دانش آموزان از طریق شنیدن وسخن گفتن پیشرفت کند، احساس می شود. این مطالعه به بررسی این عوامل می پردازد.

در تحقیق حاضر، محققان انجام روش های تحقیق اقدام پژوهی(action research) را که در سال های اخیر رنگ و بوی نظام مند به خود گرفته است با استناد به انجام تحقیقی در این قالب به چالش کشیده اند. در پژوهش انجام گرفته بر روی پانزده دانشجوی فارسی زبان در رشته بهداشت (خانواده و محیط)، تدریس نوشتار دانشگاهی در ژانر مقاله نویسی در مدت یک ترم تحصیلی به طریق اقدام پژوهی صورت پذیرفت. مشکلات دانشجویان 1) در انتخاب موضوع و 2) سخن پردازی در موضوعات منتخب آنان دو چالشی بود که سنجش دو نوع روایی را بر اساس مدل اندرسون (1994) شامل روایی فرایندی(process validity) و فروگشا(catalytic) برای محققان دشوار ساخت.

A community of practice may shape and reshape the identity of members of the community through providing them with situated learning or learning environment. This study, therefore, is to clarify the salient learning-based features of the language teaching community of practice that might formulate the identity of language teachers. To this end, the study examined how learning situations in two communities of practice (English and Arabic) developed the professional identity of language teachers. The results of the semi-structure interviews with 5 language teachers highlighted some differences between English and Arabic language teaching communities of practice in terms of the situated learning activities they provide for language teachers to develop their professional identity. Furthermore, since the community of practice can be considered a potential curriculum that may be learned by newcomers with legitimate peripheral access, it would be considered as a main source of identity formation of both English and Arabic language teachers. The findings of the study can be used to better understand the nature of being a professional language teacher in non-native contexts. They have implications for novice and experienced language teachers as well as for teacher educators to review the content of the teacher training courses

This study compared the effects of two types of form-focused tasks on proceduralization and transfer of linguistics knowledge in case of English modals. All participants of the study attended pretests, posttests and delayed posttests. The procedural comprehension and production knowledge were measured through the groups’ performance on a timed dual task test that resembled the context of practice. The transfer of knowledge was measured by evaluating the performance of participants on a timed dual task test in a context dissimilar from or reverse to the practice context. Three intact classes of intermediate EFL learners were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The output group (n= 27) received explicit grammar instruction and a combination of three output practice, while the input group (n=25) received explicit instruction and a combination of three input practice. Identical texts were exposed to the control group (n=25) through listening and reading tasks. The texts were followed by some questions irrelevant to English modals. On the procedural knowledge posttests, the experimental groups outperformed the control group. The participants were able to transfer the knowledge to dissimilar contexts. The results may help language teachers design more effective activities for the learners considering the institutional constraints

Teachers’ sense of efficacy belief has been introduced as a context-specific construct, but the related literature is not clear on this specificity. This study was an attempt to show how contextual factors influence efficacy beliefs among English language teachers. To this end, thirty Iranian EFL teachers working in both school and private institute contexts were chosen as the participants to respond to Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy Beliefs questionnaire (Tschannen-Moran & Hoy, 2001) twice: once based on school context and once based on private institute context. Afterwards, the participants were invited to a brief interview designed to investigate further the reasons for which they had scored higher in either context. The interview findings and the results of a t-test revealed that context really made a difference. It is argued that the proper or improper functioning of efficacy building sources is the cause of the difference

The concept of teacher change is critical in second language teaching and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context due largely to the fact that, almost, whatever we do in teacher education looks for initiating change of one sort or another. A substantial body of research has been dedicated to investigate teacher change (TC) from various perspectives. However, having studied the related literature, we found no robust, valid and reliable measure for TC in EFL context. Accordingly, effort was made to develop and validate a reliable and valid measure that could assess TC in an EFL context. The review of the prior research resulted in the collection of 186 items affecting TC out of which a temporary data driven model of teacher change was developed. 324 Ph.D. and M.A. graduated EFL teachers took part in exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of the initial measure. Finally, a 66-item scale consisting of three components and thirteen sub-components was developed.The results showed both factorial validity andinternal consistency reliability for the measure.The TCSsubscales also had strong validity evidence based on the associationsfound. This study has various applications for language teachers and practitioners in the field.

The present study is an attempt to explore any significant relationships between learners’ preferences for error correction, demotivation, and language proficiency (LP). One hundred Iranian EFL students, including both males and females, studying at the departments of foreign languages of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman and Tehran University took part in this study. In order to obtain the required data, two questionnaires and a proficiency test were utilized: the learners’ preferences for error correction questionnaire (Fukuda, 2004) to measure learners’ preferences for error correction, the demotivation questionnaire (Sakai & Kikuchi, 2009) to measure demotivation, and Michigan Test (1997) to measure the learners’ language proficiency level. The findings of this study revealed that first, there was a significant negative relationship between the learners’ preferences for error correction and demotivation (- 0.79): the more satisfied learners are with the error corrections they receive, the less demotivated they will be; second, there was a significant positive relationship between learners’ preferences for error correction and LP (0.69): the higher the learners’ satisfaction with error corrections they receive, the higher their level of LP; third, there was a significant negative relationship between demotivation and LP (- 0.59): the more demotivated learners are, the less their scores of LP will be.

Code-switching is known to be a widespread phenomenon among bilinguals and in ESL/EFL teaching/learning process; it refers to any alternate use of two codes or languages within the same conversation or even the same utterance. The present study is an attempt to investigatethe functions, types and frequencies of code switching in students discourse in the context of ELT classrooms.The study also explores the relationship between the language proficiency level of the students and their use of code switching. To achieve this end, two groups of students (at two different levels of proficiency) from two classes of general English courses in an institutional program in Oil Ministry Center of Isfahan were selected as participants. All sessions of an entire semester were videotaped. A coding scheme was developed for classifying students’ instances of CS into relevant functions.The data were tabulated, and frequencies and percentages were conducted by SPSS program. The findings indicate that the majority of CS in the classroom is highly purposeful, and related to pedagogical goals. Also, the research found that pedagogical functions were more frequently fulfilled through CS compared to social functions. The findings of this research suggest that code switching is a necessary tool for teachers due to a number of pedagogical considerations in ET classrooms and can give teachers a clue to have a better understanding of student code switching in ELT classrooms and use CS in the direction of teaching and effective learning.

تحقیقات متعدد نشان داده اند که اصطلاحات زبان شناسی و محدوده توصیف کننده های خارجی موجود در یک زبان از زبانی به زبان دیگر متفاوت است. پژوهش حاضر به بررسی شباهت ها و تفاوت های میان فرهنگی توصیف کننده های خارجی در کنش گفتار درخواست می پردازد. بدین منظور،پرسشنامه ای از 30 دانشجوی عراقی و 30 دانشجوی مالایی دانشگاه علوم مالزی جمع آوری شد. قالب نظریه مدیریت روابط اسپنسر اوتی (2008) برای آنالیز توصیف کننده های خارجی بکار گرفته شده است. داده های این تحقیق از پرسشنامه ای در قالب آزمون تکمیل گفتاری که از 8 موقعیت تشکیل شده جمع آوری شده است. داده ها سپس براساس طبقه بندی توصیف کننده های خارجی عاریه گرفته شده از بلام کالکا،هاوس و کسپرآنالیز شده است. هدف اولیه این تحقیق مقایسه تاثیرعوامل موقعیتی بر تحقق الگوی توصیف کننده های خارجی کنش گفتار درخواست بین دانشجویان عراقی و مالایی می باشد. نتایج این تحقیق می تواند در مطالعات میان فرهنگی و بین فرهنگی موثر باشد.

Self-regulation of learning has been extensively investigated in second language (L2) learning. Many studies have focused on the strategies that language learners employ to regulate their own learning processes. However, motivational self-regulation is considerably less explored. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between motivational self-regulatory strategies (MSRSs) and academic achievement. A motivational self-regulation questionnaire was administered to 64 male and female adult Iranian EFL learners to measure their choice of various strategies. The quantitative data was analyzed by applying correlational and multivariate analyses. The results demonstrated that there was a strong relationship between motivational self-regulatory strategy use and academic achievement. However, no difference was found between male and female learners in their use of the strategies. Further examination revealed that higher-achieving students differed from lower-achieving participants in their preference for strategies. The article concludes that while all learners use extrinsic rewards to self-regulate their motivation, more successful learners tend to manipulate learning tasks to make the tasks intrinsically interesting and pleasant. Also, more successful learners set both long-term and short-term goals to motivate themselves. The results underscore the importance of students’ personal interests, needs and goals, and suggest that teachers foster learners’ command of the strategies through instruction and cooperative activities.