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Scientific Information Database (SID) - Trusted Source for Research and Academic Resources
Scientific Information Database (SID) - Trusted Source for Research and Academic Resources
Issue Info: 
  • Year: 

    2018
  • Volume: 

    7
  • Issue: 

    2
  • Pages: 

    299-323
Measures: 
  • Citations: 

    1
  • Views: 

    2328
  • Downloads: 

    0
Abstract: 

In educational systems around the world, the idea of teaching higher order thinking on the one hand, and the use of content as a thinking tool on the other within various disciplines have turned Critical Thinking (CT) into a substantive concept and an educational ideal. Conducting research to realize the extent to which critical thinking as an educational ideal has become an educational reality is essential. This study aimed to investigate the Iranian educational system with a focus on critical thinking. A nationwide survey was conducted among 300 school and university students and graduates. The results revealed that an overwhelming majority of Iranian graduates in all levels of education from diploma to Ph.D. lack a substantive concept of CT and experienced a more or less didactic paradigm of education which focuses on mere memorization. Comparison of different groups of graduates belonging to various disciplines did not show and significant difference either.

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Issue Info: 
  • Year: 

    2018
  • Volume: 

    7
  • Issue: 

    2
  • Pages: 

    325-354
Measures: 
  • Citations: 

    0
  • Views: 

    872
  • Downloads: 

    0
Abstract: 

This study aimed at investigating the effect of Project-Based Learning approach on improving EFL learners’ knowledge of English idiomatic expressions. To this end, 60 male and female Iranian EFL intermediate learners were selected on the basis of Oxford Placement Test results and were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The participants in the experimental group were asked to do projects on the instructed idioms. The projects included scenario writing, making dubsmashes, audio role plays on animation and movie episodes. The students in the control group received bilingual idiom list (English and the Persian equivalents) and were instructed through traditional Present, Practice and Produce model (PPP). The data were collected through pre- and post-test design and a structured interview. The results of ANCOVA (analysis of covariance) indicated that the experimental group outperformed the control group. Besides, theme elicitation through open coding on structured interview approved the efficacy of project- based learning in terms of its potential in increasing learner autonomy, motivation and cooperation. The implications and suggestions for further study are discussed.

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Author(s): 

JALALI MARYAM

Issue Info: 
  • Year: 

    2018
  • Volume: 

    7
  • Issue: 

    2
  • Pages: 

    355-376
Measures: 
  • Citations: 

    0
  • Views: 

    654
  • Downloads: 

    0
Abstract: 

Comedy dates back to Plato’s time. Today, a variety of theories on satire are presented in the field of linguistic and literary knowledge. These theories provide the basis for the analysis of comic writing. Obeid Zakani (701-772) was one of the successful comic authors in the field of Persian literature. Obeid Zakani's narrations in Resaleye Delgosha express the truth through humorous language. Between the lines of Resaleye Delgosha, there are some darned realities that, in their structure, we see the ambiguity. Since "Fonagy’s Humor theory" is based on the structure of ambiguity, the present research has conducted a descriptive- analytical method in the structure of the ambiguity of the delusional treatise of satire. The findings show that there are four types of syntactic ambiguity in the humorous narrative of Resaleye Delgosha, which are consistent with the pattern of ambiguity. This study contributes to the determination of the role of syntactic ambiguity in the satire of Resaleye Delgosha. There are four types of ambiguities in this work: surface structure ambiguity, deep structure ambiguity, the combination of both surface structure and deep structure, and its contrast. Obeid Zakani’s satire holds all these four ambiguity types. The present essay aimed at classifying and analyzing the ambiguities in Resaleye Delgosha regarding Fonagy’s theory in a descriptive and analytical pattern. In addition, deconstruction in the context of the deployment of phrases and sentences plays a role in creating syntactic ambiguity. Among the four most commonly used models in the satire of this work, deep structure ambiguity is remarkable.

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Issue Info: 
  • Year: 

    2018
  • Volume: 

    7
  • Issue: 

    2
  • Pages: 

    377-404
Measures: 
  • Citations: 

    0
  • Views: 

    734
  • Downloads: 

    0
Abstract: 

This study was an attempt to realize the temporal order or relations of situations in Persian what traditionally known as "the Sequence of Tense" (SOT). Research data are sentences of standard variety of Persian collected through a descriptive-analytic method, and on the basis of language intuition of the authors and some native speakers. Declerck's theory (1991a), together with particular semantics and pragmatics coming from Grice's conversation Maxims, helps provide proper hypothesis to answer research question of the present study. According to the hypothesis, subclause status is manifested in unmarked case by relative tense and in marked case by absolute tense. Investigating tense relations in future domain involves more aspects of the theory. All rules governing the extension of tense domains are also used in extending subdomains. In addition to indirect speech, the explanatory force of this analysis is visible in other kinds of complex sentences even independent ones following one another.

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Issue Info: 
  • Year: 

    2018
  • Volume: 

    7
  • Issue: 

    2
  • Pages: 

    405-423
Measures: 
  • Citations: 

    0
  • Views: 

    887
  • Downloads: 

    0
Abstract: 

Quick translation is one of the urgent needs of the profession. Teamwork always leads to a greater pace and an improvement in the quality in performing high-stake tasks. Despite some practical limitations– such as being limited to content-oriented texts- team translation, if done properly, means great advantages like increased motivation and creativity, higher quality, and a considerable decrease in the completion time. Such an idea, if embraced by professional translators, can bring about great changes to the translation market. However, such a change requires the acquisition of the knowledge of and the skills for the establishment of translator teams and the subsequent contribution to such teamwork. Therefore, while proposing additional research to be done to confirm the validity of this idea, it is recommend that translation team work courses be incorporated into the curricula of translations studies programs. Regarding the country’s macro- policies in the education system, the design and incorporation of such courses can be a significant stride towards training more professional translators within college translation studies programs.

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Issue Info: 
  • Year: 

    2018
  • Volume: 

    7
  • Issue: 

    2
  • Pages: 

    425-451
Measures: 
  • Citations: 

    0
  • Views: 

    1429
  • Downloads: 

    0
Abstract: 

The purpose of the present study is to develop bilingual story books with the purpose of improving 8- to 14-year-old students’ emotional literacy, because most of the available materials and books in ELT markets are based on methods and approaches which is rooted in linguistics, psychology or other social schools of thought. However, few of them have considered the aspects of emotion in biliteracy. To do so, some bilingual story books were developed which included some activities based on Bowkett and Percival’s (2010) model of emotional intelligence and Bruner’s (1969) intellectual development. Then, these story books were taught to a group of 30 students aged between 8 and 14. In addition, the classes were observed and also after teaching the story books, an unstructured interview was conducted with the students regarding their opinions about the story books. The results indicated that the developed story books are valid enough to improve 8- to 14-yearold students’ emotional literacy.

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Issue Info: 
  • Year: 

    2018
  • Volume: 

    7
  • Issue: 

    2
  • Pages: 

    453-469
Measures: 
  • Citations: 

    0
  • Views: 

    1455
  • Downloads: 

    0
Abstract: 

The present paper reports on an empirical study that involved the structural move analysis of encyclopedic genre. For purposes of the current study, a corpus of 240 encyclopedic entries (120 topical entries and 120 biographical entries) were randomly chosen from Merriam- Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. They were then converted into *.txt files and fed into Ant Mover, the computer software developed for structural move analysis by Anthony (2003). A human coder also coded the texts at two different times with a three- week interval. To avoid random carry- over effect, the human coder used the counter- balanced design in his coding of the texts. Rasmeenin's (2006) and Yang and Allison’s (2003) frameworks were employed to identify the obligatory, conventional, and optional moves in the texts.Results indicated that topical and biographical encyclopedic entries do differ in rhetorical structure. The findings of this study can help Iranian encyclopediographers to better understand the standard structure of encyclopedia entries.

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Issue Info: 
  • Year: 

    2018
  • Volume: 

    7
  • Issue: 

    2
  • Pages: 

    471-496
Measures: 
  • Citations: 

    0
  • Views: 

    1747
  • Downloads: 

    0
Abstract: 

Flipped learning is a relatively new approach in teaching. In flipped learning the place of teacher’s lectures and the homework is reversed to enhance active learning and engagement. This study was done to examine the effect of flipped classroom on English language novice teachers’ engagement and to examine their attitude towards flipped classroom. About 150 English female teachers were selected from among different institutes and private schools in Tehran. The teachers were divided randomly into experimental and control groups. There were 75 teachers in two flipped classrooms and 75 teachers in two traditional classrooms. They were taught a course of "classroom management" in 6 weeks. Data was collected by a questionnaire which was completed by teachers to examine their perception of their engagements and their attitudes on flipped professional development. Results indicated that teachers in flipped professional development had higher engagement levels than teachers in lecture-based classes. Furthermore teachers had a positive attitude toward this instructional model.

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Issue Info: 
  • Year: 

    2018
  • Volume: 

    7
  • Issue: 

    2
  • Pages: 

    497-525
Measures: 
  • Citations: 

    0
  • Views: 

    642
  • Downloads: 

    0
Abstract: 

Teaching grammar in English language teaching (ELT) is considered one of the controversial issues which, due to the advent of new approaches in ELT, has experienced ups and downs. After the emergence of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) and its undeniable expansion, teaching or not teaching grammar is still a controversial issue. Thus, this study attempted firstly to study the rationale behind applying grammar in CLT. Then, because of inclusion of grammar in the newly-developed CLT- based English course books, it tried to survey the teachers' perception of the topic. Doing so, using a qualitative method and through a focus group, eight teachers were interviewed. The findings revealed that the teachers are strongly influenced by a common misconception that teaching grammar does not fit in CLT. For the purpose of implementing the new approach in Iranian high schools, the results are indicative of the necessity of training of teachers on the topic.

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Issue Info: 
  • Year: 

    2018
  • Volume: 

    7
  • Issue: 

    2
  • Pages: 

    527-553
Measures: 
  • Citations: 

    0
  • Views: 

    892
  • Downloads: 

    0
Abstract: 

The current study was carried out to investigate the acquisition of English modal auxiliary verbs by adult Persian EFL learners. In order to fulfill the intended objective, 34 intermediate and 33 advanced participants studying English at language institutes were chosen. The selected L2 learners were assessed both on their production (translation task) and perception (forced choice elicitation task) of the intended modal verbs. The data analysis revealed that they suffered inability in the production of simple and perfective forms of dynamic modal auxiliary would. Meanwhile, the distinction among deontic modal auxiliary verbs should, must, and have to constituted another area of difficulty even at higher levels of proficiency. The obtained results reveal that the structural problems caused by L1 transfer exist even at higher levels of learning. These findings reject the principles of full transfer/full access theory.

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Issue Info: 
  • Year: 

    2018
  • Volume: 

    7
  • Issue: 

    2
  • Pages: 

    555-587
Measures: 
  • Citations: 

    0
  • Views: 

    1667
  • Downloads: 

    0
Abstract: 

This research investigated the views of the editor-in-chiefs, professors, and postgraduate students about the reasons for committing plagiarism in Iran and the ways it can be prevented. Twelve editor-in-chiefs, 41 professors, and 112 post- graduate students of English- related majors took part in the study answering two essay- type questions and a modified version of iThenticate questionnaire through email. The results indicated that lack of proper training and consciousness- raising from the early stages of education, prevalence of laziness and cheating among Iranian students, the pressure on professors and university students to publish papers to gain higher degrees, ranks and promotion, and the ease of admissions to the universities at the post- graduate level were among the main reasons for committing plagiarism in Iran. Appropriate awareness- raising, training and educating students from the very beginning, and laying down strict regulations to seriously punish plagiarizers were among the most important strategies suggested by the participants to avoid and deal with plagiarism.

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Issue Info: 
  • Year: 

    2018
  • Volume: 

    7
  • Issue: 

    2
  • Pages: 

    589-602
Measures: 
  • Citations: 

    0
  • Views: 

    974
  • Downloads: 

    0
Abstract: 

Current studies in the field of translation emphasize the role of the translator as the cultural mediator. These studies indicate that the personal and gender identities of translators could affect the translation of texts. In this study, "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman was selected, which has received social feedback as well as feedback from the critics of gender theories. This text was given to male and female translators and then the quality of their translations and the potential role of gender in the translation were investigated having in mind the framework introduced by Lakoff (1975). The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of woman’s language and gender attitudes of male and female translators in the translation. Finally, the results showed that female translators were more sensitive to the special language of the author and more faithful to its reproduction in their final work.

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