Pragmatics
azam estaji; elham ziyayi; Atiyeh Kamyabi Gol
Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 03 February 2024
Abstract
Mathematical concepts including counting, comparing and the spatial value of numbers is one of the most fundamental fields that has many effects on individuals’ life. In the process of counting, the child must retrieve the phonetic representations of numerical words. This is possible through phonological ...
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Mathematical concepts including counting, comparing and the spatial value of numbers is one of the most fundamental fields that has many effects on individuals’ life. In the process of counting, the child must retrieve the phonetic representations of numerical words. This is possible through phonological working memory. In this research, the authors are trying to study the effect of phonemic awareness training on the performance of female students in the second grade of elementary school in the area of mathematical concepts.So the present study was done on 140 second grade female students of Quchan elementary school in the academic year of 1401-1402. 70 students were selected as the control group and 70 students were selected as the experimental group. The experimental group was exposed to phonological awareness training during 10 sessions of 30-35 minutes. A pre-test and a post-test were conducted from both groups both in the phonological awareness and mathematical concepts. The results showed that teaching phonological awareness skills in mathematical concepts has a significant effect on female students in the second grade of elementary school. Thus the results of the present study are in line with the results of other studies conducted in this field. But the different aspect of this research was the dividing of phonemic awareness skill based on age and just considering the field of mathematical concepts specifically. In this research, only the field of concepts has been discussed.
Pragmatics
Massoumeh Khodaei Moghaddam; Atiyeh Kamyabi Gol; Shahla Sharifi
Volume 14, Issue 4 , March 2023, , Pages 126-152
Abstract
Textbook content evaluation based on a checklist is a widely common method for evaluating textbooks. This type of evaluation plays an effective role on preserving textbook quality. In this study, by applying a validated checklist- including 4 main categories of “physical features, design and layout”, ...
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Textbook content evaluation based on a checklist is a widely common method for evaluating textbooks. This type of evaluation plays an effective role on preserving textbook quality. In this study, by applying a validated checklist- including 4 main categories of “physical features, design and layout”, “skills and sub-skills”, “subject and content”, and “practical consideration”- two textbook series, namely, Amouzesh-e-novin-e zaban-e-Farsi (ANZF) and Amouzesh-e-Farsi-be-Farsi (AFBF) were analyzed and compared qualitatively. Based on the results, these textbooks were evaluated as ‘good’ and ‘very good’ in their physical features, design and layout, according to the instructors’ viewpoints, however the researchers evaluated them as partly-good due to some shortcomings such as lack of workbooks and teacher’s manuals. In the skills and sub-skills category, both series had fundamental problems; and to sum up, the ANZF series seem to be partly-weak and AFBF series seem to be highly-weak. In the category of ‘subject and content’, the ANZF series is evaluated as partly-good, and the AFBF series is evaluated as weak. In the category of ‘practical considerations’, the ANZF is evaluated as partly-good, and the AFBF is evaluated as partly-weak. Generally, the ANZF series was evaluated as partly good and AFBF was evaluated as weak.
Syntax
Atiyeh Kamyabi Gol; Reihane Barani
Volume 13, Issue 2 , February 2022, , Pages 225-258
Abstract
Preparation and compilation of educational materials based on scientific principles is one of the major goals of the document of the comprehensive scientific map of the country. Due to the growing need for these resources, unfortunately today we are faced with a lack of standardized and efficient educational ...
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Preparation and compilation of educational materials based on scientific principles is one of the major goals of the document of the comprehensive scientific map of the country. Due to the growing need for these resources, unfortunately today we are faced with a lack of standardized and efficient educational materials for teaching Persian to non-Persian speakers. The purpose of this library, analytical and field research study was to develop a simplified and translated text from "Qaboosnameh" anecdotes to study the reflective feedback from both teachers and learners at the pre-advanced level. In order to achieve this aim, Maxwell (2011) and Paetzold, and Specia (2015) frameworks and principles were applied to a text and simplification implemented. In order to collect the instructors’ feedback on classroom application of the designed material, a written semi-structured interview was conducted. The developed materials were given to 15 instructors from Azfa Center at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and 3 instructors from Ankara. All the participating instructors confirmed the appropriateness of the lesson topics and asserted their relevance to the learners’ needs. Also, the instructors believed that the syntactic and lexical difficulty level of the texts were comprehensible for 21 out of 25 Persian learners, which indicates the appropriate level of difficulty of the simplified texts.
Computational linguistics
Atiyeh Kamyabi Gol; elham akhlaghi; Hanieh Habibi
Volume 12, Issue 2 , December 2020, , Pages 227-246
Abstract
A corpus consists of natural continuous texts that are presented electronically and from which information about linguistic elements (both lexical and non-lexical) can be extracted; this can be done in the shortest possible time and with the highest degree of accuracy. The authors of this article have ...
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A corpus consists of natural continuous texts that are presented electronically and from which information about linguistic elements (both lexical and non-lexical) can be extracted; this can be done in the shortest possible time and with the highest degree of accuracy. The authors of this article have created Ferdowsi Annotated Academic Language Corpus and the purpose of this article is to introduce the corpus of faculty members of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and use it in analyzing and describing hedges in both fields of humanities and science. Hedges indicate the certainty of the author through words such as "maybe", "possibly" and "definitely". Research in this area has mainly focused on manual analysis of limited number of words. In this study, Salager Meyer’s (1997) classification has been used to identify, and categorize hedges. The data were extracted from Ferdowsi Annotated Academic Language Corpus which contains 1100 Persian language articles. Based on the results, the use of hedges in the field of humanities was about twice as much as in the field of science. Meanwhile, the use of conditionals and expressions of doubt in both fields had a high frequency. The results from this study have a better chance at being generalized to the fields under study due to the greater number of entries. The accuracy of the corpus labeling is 96% and it can be used as an excellent source for analysis and research on scientific texts.
Fakhteh Nakhavali; Azam Estaji; Atiye Kamyabi Gol
Volume 11, Issue 1 , May 2019, , Pages 85-110
Abstract
Extended Abstract
Introduction
Man achieves a multitude of purposes through social interaction. Social interactions dictate how we behave in society and sometimes in order to elude from various responsibilities, man resorts to lying. “Lie” can be defined in many different ways and based on ...
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Extended Abstract
Introduction
Man achieves a multitude of purposes through social interaction. Social interactions dictate how we behave in society and sometimes in order to elude from various responsibilities, man resorts to lying. “Lie” can be defined in many different ways and based on the fields of study and schools of thought, where the definition comes from, it can have an array of various subcategories. A “lie” can be defined as denying the truth or providing intentionally false statements. Lie has been defined based on sociological, psychological, philosophical, educational, and psycholinguist factors; however, it is primarily a speech act and should therefore be studied based on linguistic factors (Meibauer, 2011). The present research aimed at analyzing the relation between different variables such as age, gender, field of study, religious orientation, and geographical region (city or place in which the related participants have grown up in), and speech act of lie, and also studying the speech act of lie in Persian to determine its semantic features and to analyze this speech act in Persian as compared to English.
Review of Literature
Various Iranian researchers have studied the concept of lying in Iran (Seilanian Tousi, 2000; Sharif Asgari, 2011; Atrak & Mollabashi, 2012; Shafagh, 2014; Rezazadeh, 1988; Atrak, 2009) and they all conclude that lying is a strategy used by Iranians to deny the truth and to falsify information. Based on Coleman and Kay’s theory, the definition of lie prototype includes three features: 1) P is false. 2) S believes P to be false. 3) In uttering P, S intends to deceive. Results show that the lie prototype in Persian includes the three basic features of giving the asserted part of information, giving false information and belief, and communicating form of deception. So, Persian and English are similar in defining the speech act of lie based on Coleman and Kay’s theory (1981).
Method
The present research is a descriptive, analytical, and field study. This research aims to analyze the relation between different variables such as age, gender, field of study, religious orientation, geographical region (city or place in which the related participants have grown up in) and speech act of lie, and also to study the speech act of lie in Persian to determine its semantic features and to analyze this speech act in Persian as compared with English. In this research, Allport’s religious approaches’ questionnaire and also Coleman and Kay’s questionnaire were used. These questionnaires were given to 280 postgraduate students studying in 8 different fields at the faculty of Literature and Humanities, at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Choosing the participants was based on a voluntary basis and the number of participants was based on Morgan’s table of generalizability. For analyzing the data, SPSS software (Version 22) was utilized.
Results and Discussion
In order to show the possible interconnection between variables under study (age, gender, field of study, geographical region, and religious perspective) and lie as a speech act, correlation was used. The results from Allport’s religious approaches show there is only a meaningful correlation between the variable of geographical region and speech act of lie since the level of significance of the test for these two variables was .093 that 0.05>.093. The level of significance for the rest of the related variables including gender, age, field of study, and religious perspective was more than 0.05 which shows there is no relation between these variables and the speech act of lie.
Conclusion
Based on the obtained results, all characteristics highlighted by Coleman and Kay's prototype can be seen in Persian. These characteristics include: a) It contains a finite list of properties; b) The individual properties on the list are each treated as dichotomous, c) Membership in the lie category is a gradient phenomenon; d) Satisfaction of each property on the list contributes to the over-all degree of membership of an utterance in the category lie; e) Each property on the list does not necessarily contribute equally to the degree of membership of an utterance in the category; that is, properties may be of differential importance in constituting the prototype; and, f) In this gradient framework, the bivalent concepts of the 'necessity' and 'sufficiency' of properties do not apply (Coleman & Kay, 1981).
Theses obtained results are in line with Cole (1996) who compared English and Arabic, and Hardin (2010) who compared Spanish and English. All the above studies highlight the importance of cultural factors which underlie an individual’s perspective regarding the definition of lie. Based on the correlations used in the present research, only the geographical region variable correlated with “lie” as a speech act, which could show that if one grew up in the suburbs as compared to metropolitan areas, their definition and perspective towards “lie” could be different.
