Papers by Ali Rezaee Javidan
International Journal of Language and Linguistics, 2014
The present study was conducted to investigate the impact of the teachers' sense of plausibility ... more The present study was conducted to investigate the impact of the teachers' sense of plausibility on their classroom practices. The participants were 42 male and female high school English teachers and some of their students. To fulfill the purpose of the study, a 60-item teacher's sense of plausibility questionnaire was administered to the teachers and a 29 item questionnaire was administered to their students to determine the effect of the teacher's sense of plausibility on the classroom performances. The analysis of data was done through Pearson Correlation and the parametric independent t-test analyses. The findings indicated that there is a close relationship between the teacher's sense of plausibility and his/her teaching performances. With respect to these findings, it could be concluded that the students whose teachers had a higher sense of plausibility had better language performances than those students whose teachers had a lower sense of plausibility which is worth considering.
Abstract: This study aims at examining the metaphors created by two groups of language learners i... more Abstract: This study aims at examining the metaphors created by two groups of language learners in Iranian high schools (43 males and 43 females) in Famenin. Learners were required to write the metaphors which truly conceptualized their perceptions of the English educational system in Iran. Their metaphors were categorized based on the taxonomy developed by the scholars in the field (Martinez, 2001). The results highlighted remarkable points which the most important one is that; in Iran, still, most of learners work based on the principles of the behaviorists, these findings are compatible with those of Pishghadam and Mirzaee (2008) and Pishghadam et al. (2011) which asserted that Iran’s educational system is still under the influence of modernist, behaviorist and positivist views of learning.
This study aims at examining the metaphors created by two groups of language learners in Iranian ... more This study aims at examining the metaphors created by two groups of language learners in Iranian high schools (43 males and 43 females) in Famenin. Learners were required to write the metaphors which truly conceptualized their perceptions of the English educational system in Iran. Their metaphors were categorized based on the taxonomy developed by the scholars in the field (Martinez, 2001). The results highlighted remarkable points which the most important one is that; in Iran, still, most of learners work based on the principles of the behaviorists, these findings are compatible with those of Pishghadam and Mirzaee (2008) and Pishghadam et al. (2011) which asserted that Iran's educational system is still under the influence of modernist, behaviorist and positivist views of learning.
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Papers by Ali Rezaee Javidan