مرور Volume 1, Issue 1 بر اساس عنوان

  • Applicability Issues with TBLT in EFL Contexts 

    Abdollahzadeh, Esmaeel (Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2010-04-01)
    This paper examines the theoretical rationales and practical aspects of task-based language teaching (TBLT) with particular reference to research findings in EFL/ESL contexts. The definitional scope of the term ‘task', ...

  • Elements of Critical Context Studies 

    van Dijk, Teun A. (Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2010-04-01)
    In this paper, it is argued that Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) should be extended to also include what may be called Critical Context Studies (CCS). After a summary of the new theory of context, defined in terms of ...

  • In-Service Teacher Development Programs and EFL Teaching Practice in High Schools 

    Hashemian, Mahmood؛ Azadi, Ghasemali (Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2010-04-01)
    This study sought the relationship between short-term in-service development programs for EFL teachers and their teaching practice in high schools. The objectives were to determine the relationship between: 1) the components ...

  • On the Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Directive Speech Acts Preference 

    Ghonsooly, Behzad؛ Mazaheri, Homayoon (Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2010-04-01)
    Language and emotion are two related systems in use, in that one system (emotions) impacts the performance of the other (language). Both of them share their functionality in communication. Since the nature of foreign ...

  • Philosophy in John Gardner’s Grendel 

    Pirnajmuddin, Hossein؛ Shahbazi, Shima (Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2010-04-01)
    John Gardner's Grendel is a celebrated example of the ontological postmodernist fiction. Along with a discovery of self with which Grendel the narrator of the novel is concerned, grand narratives such as philosophy ...

  • The Sense of Loss: Postmodern Fragmented Identity in Three Plays of Sam Shepard 

    Mehrabi, Bahar؛ Maleki, Nasser (Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2010-04-01)
    Sam Shepard is one of the foremost living American Playwrights. He has always been concerned with the problem of identity, specifically the fragmented identity of man living in the postmodern era. Such characterization is ...