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نام و نام خانوادگی:Maghferat Torkian
عنوان پایان نامه: Relationship Between Iranian EFL Teachers’ Amount of L1 Use in the Classroom and Their Language Proficiency Level

رشته تحصیلی:آموزش زبان انگلیسی
مقطع تحصیلی: کارشناسی ارشد ناپیوسته
استاد راهنما : Dr. Alireza Najafi
Dr. Kaveh KhodamBashi

چکیده:
This study aimed at finding out the relationship between Iranian EFL teachers’ amount of L1 use in the classroom and their language proficiency level through using questionnaires. Participants of this investigation contains 123 EFL teachers both male and female in English language institutes in Iran, with different educational background. For all teachers that participated in the study, Persian is the L1 and English is the L2. The link of the questionnaires was shared with EFL instructors in various English language centers/institutes through social media including Telegram and WhatsApp. They were requested to complete the questionnaires and share it with their colleagues. The questionnaires were available for a period of about 2 month, December 20 – November 20, 2023. The participants were required to read the instructions for each section and complete it accordingly. All the teachers participated in the Language Proficiency test (Appendix B) and after that they answered the second section of the questionnaire which was about the use of L1 in their EFL classrooms (Appendix A). The results of this research revealed a low negative correlation between proficiency level of the teachers and their LI use in the classroom. Some implications may be useful for teachers, learners and teacher trainers. The results of the study may be of great value to institutes administrators, in a way that they may support their teachers to upgrade their knowledge by holding several applicable and helpful workshops. EFL teachers need to be aware of their L1 use and the reasons for it. If their L1 use is because of their low L2 proficiency level, then they must try more to expand and increase their level of proficiency to reach a judicious amount of L1 use. EFL teacher training also should enable teachers to make a balanced evaluation of L1 use in the classroom.

کلیدواژه:  Iranian EFL teachers, Language Proficiency Level, L1 use.

نام و نام خانوادگی:Zahra Rashedi
عنوان پایان نامه: The Challenges and Used Strategies by Iranian Tourist Guides While Communicating with Foreign Tourists
رشته تحصیلی:آموزش زبان انگلیسی
مقطع تحصیلی: کارشناسی ارشد ناپیوسته
استاد راهنما : Dr. Bahare Khazaeenejad
چکیده:
In an increasingly globalized world, the role of language as a bridge for communication has become more crucial than ever. In the realm of tourism, effective communication plays a significant role in ensuring a smooth, enjoyable, and culturally enriching experience for travelers. This study was an attempt to investigate English language challenges that tourist guides face to serve foreign tourists and strategies they apply to solve these challenges in Iran. Through purposive sampling, this study collected data from questionnaires and interviews. The respondents were 40 tourist guides officially registered as English language tourist guides in Iran. (Tehran:10 participants, Isfahan:8, Shiraz:7, Tabriz:5, Mashhad:5, Yazd:3, Other:2).The questionnaire was designed to extract specific data about the nature and extent of the challenges the guides face while using English and the strategies they employ to overcome those challenges. The qualitative aspect of the research design sought to provide an in-depth understanding of the phenomena. It involved semi-structured interviews with selected participants based on their questionnaire responses. This enabled the researchers to probe deeper into the intricacies of the challenges faced by the guides and the coping strategies they use, which could not be sufficiently captured by the quantitative approach. The mixed-method research design presented a balanced and comprehensive method of investigating the complex dynamics of the English language challenges faced by tourist guides in Iran and the strategies they employ in their profession. The respondents maintained that they face challenges while communicating in English with foreign tourists especially for Pronunciation, Cultural References, understanding accents, and Explaining complex concepts, respectively. In addition, the results indicated that the strategies to overcome language challenges while communicating with foreign tourists were repeating and rephrasing sentences, simplifying language, asking for clarification, adaptation to cultural differences; adopting appropriate skills; creating similarities; maintaining appropriate relationships and conflict resolution strategies.

کلیدواژه:  Tourism; Tour Guide or Tourist Guide; Challenge; English as a Foreign Language
; Communication skills; International Tourism;

نام و نام خانوادگی:Faezeh Shojaee Zadeh
عنوان پایان نامه: The Effect of Task-Based Writing Tasks on EFL Learner Agency and Task Negotiation
رشته تحصیلی:آموزش زبان انگلیسی
مقطع تحصیلی: کارشناسی ارشد ناپیوسته
استاد راهنما : Dr. Ehsan Rezvani Sichani
چکیده:
This study was an attempt to investigate the effect of task-based Writing tasks on EFL learner agency and task negotiation. The current study benefited from an experimental design. In order to do so, through convenient non-random sampling, out of 96 participants, 44 EFL learners were selected to participate in the study. They were divided into two groups based on an IELTS reading test. The following instruments were used as well: IELTS, a writing pretest and posttest, and Learner Agency Questionnaire (Nezami, Schwarzer, 1996). After the selection process and treatment initiation, learners in both groups used the identical textbook for eight sessions, each lasting 90 minutes. The teacher gave them in the control group the similar six writing prompts that were given to the students in the experimental group. The experimental group used a task-based structure, with pre-task, during-task, and post-task stages for each activity. Each stage was given the same time as the control group. Descriptive statistics and two separate paired samples tests were used to verify the analysis results using SPSS software. The findings of the study revealed that the task-based writing tasks have statistically significant effect on EFL learners’ learner agency. Also, the second research hypothesis was rejected, meaning task-based writing tasks have statistically significant effect on EFL learners’ negotiation.

کلیدواژه:  Learner Agency, EFL Learners, Task-Based Tasks, Negotiation, Writing