Psychology of language
Zahra Shariatpanah; Shima Ebrahimi; Reza Pishghadam; Mohammad Javad Mahdavi
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Academic writing is widely recognized as an effective approach to transferring knowledge and information in academia. However, writing skills have been largely ignored in educational institutions, such as schools and universities. Since students writing is a complex skill, they show less interest in ...
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Academic writing is widely recognized as an effective approach to transferring knowledge and information in academia. However, writing skills have been largely ignored in educational institutions, such as schools and universities. Since students writing is a complex skill, they show less interest in developing it. Acknowledging the importance of sensory engagement in teaching writing skills, this quasi-experimental study explores the effect of multisensory and multimodal education on students’ willingness for academic writing. In doing so, 300 undergraduate students from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad were selected through convenience sampling. They participated in seven training sessions, divided into three groups: (1) multisensory education, (2) multimodal education, and (3) traditional education. Their willingness for academic writing was assessed through a questionnaire and a descriptive writing task in both pre-test and post-test evaluations. The findings revealed that students who received multisensory instruction showed a significantly greater willingness to write. Additionally, female students in the multimodal instruction group exhibited a higher willingness to write compared to male students in the other two groups. These results suggest that multisensory teaching methods, in contrast to traditional approaches, enhance social interaction and group support. Moreover, increased engagement with the environment fosters greater self-efficacy in writing.
Mohammad Javad Hadizadeh; Mohammad Javad Mahdavy; Rezamorad Sahraee; Ali Aalizadeh
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Task-based learning method is considered as one of the successful methods in communicative language teaching, which possess the advantages of teamwork and class interaction along with the positive components of attention to the grammatical forms. Although, few independent studies have been conducted ...
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Task-based learning method is considered as one of the successful methods in communicative language teaching, which possess the advantages of teamwork and class interaction along with the positive components of attention to the grammatical forms. Although, few independent studies have been conducted on the task-based method in Persian language; numerous studies have been done on the impact of the task-based method in English language. After stating the significance of the task-based method, by selecting three types of the most common tasks in text books relating to teaching Persian language grammar to speakers of other languages(short composition, editing task and spot the differences)and registering the interactions between sixteen Persian language learners in Saadi Foundation through studying the language related episodes and meta-talks of each of them while performing these tasks in a group, the current study attempts to examine these tasks effects on drawing the language learners' attention to the grammatical forms; and then it presents a resultant from the practical application of task-based method in classroom and its advantages. Results show that performing the tasks in teamwork has obviously a positive effect on improving the grammatical ability of the language learners; the positive or negative feedback that the learners provide in their interactions are constructive in most cases; it leads to a correct decision-making, and the learners are more dominant on the grammatical categories that they learn in form of a task. Among the various types of task, editing task is the most suitable choice for teaching grammar due to having the redesigning capability for paying attention to various grammatical forms and a more specific reflection of the target grammatical categories on it.