جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « foreign language learning » در نشریات گروه « علوم تربیتی »

Due to the IT of today's world, the unrestricted access of foreign language users to the various contents of language, and that language and culture are two integral components of the process of foreign language learning, this research seeks to assess the cultural resistance of the students majoring in English language teaching and literature toward the incompatible aspects of Western culture included in online and offline resources from the first year to the last year of their B.A. To this end, 31 students majoring in English literature and 25 students majoring in English language teaching took a thirteen-item cultural resistance questionnaire in which each item contained five options ranging from the highest level of cultural resistance to the lowest level of cultural resistance toward the incompatible aspects of Western culture. After analyzing the data by Paired-Samples T-Test, Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test, and ANCOVA, this study showed that there was no significant difference in terms of the level of cultural resistance toward educational resources among English language teaching and English literature students from the first year to the third/fourth year of their learning. The findings of this study provide material developers, professors and teachers, and foreign language learners with a better understanding of the potential impacts of Western culture on the foreign language learning process.

This article briefly reviews the challenges the learners of foreign language and literature face in the home context and presents the promises of children literature in meeting some of those challenges. It is argued that using children literature in the target language is easily justifiable in light of compelling research and evidence about second language acquisition and foreign language learning. The article describes the official program for English Language and Literature in the Iranian universities and emphasizes the pre-requisite steps in any educational literary agenda which may target sustainable attainment of its goals. The article, then, reviews some outstanding theories and ideas in second language acquisition which seem to support the use of children literature for the purpose of developing language skills. Hence, the article advocates the systematic inclusion of children literature as a significant component in the basic and literary courses for the students of English Language and Literature. It is argued that such an attempt can lead to increased quality in the treatment the learners receive and make their learning more meaningful and sustainable. Some potential shortcomings and pitfalls in the suggested proposal are also pointed out.

This study mainly aims at investigating the relationship between learners’ use of learning strategies in the process of English language learning and their command of English among English students in university. Out of 368 freshmen English language students, 189 students studying English Language at Islamic Azad University - Roudehen Branch were selected applying cluster random sampling. Oxford's Strategy Inventory of Language Learning (SILL) and an ETS version of TOEFL examination (2003) were administered. The findings indicated that participants’ use of learning strategies in their study had correlation with their English proficiency level. Moreover, there is no significant difference between male and female students regarding the use of learning strategies in relation with their proficiency level.