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        1 - Developing and Validating a Questionnaire to Assess Strategic Competence in EFL Listening Performance: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
        Maryam Haghighi Mojgan Rashtchi Parviz Birjandi
        This study aimed to describe the development and validation process of a listening questionnaire designed to assess strategic competence in listening comprehension. The 34-item Cognitive and Metacognitive Listening Strategies Questionnaire (CMLSQ) was administered to a أکثر
        This study aimed to describe the development and validation process of a listening questionnaire designed to assess strategic competence in listening comprehension. The 34-item Cognitive and Metacognitive Listening Strategies Questionnaire (CMLSQ) was administered to a relatively large sample (N=397) of L2 learners. The results of the 370 completed questionnaires were subjected to exploratory factor analysis to identify the underlying structure of the questionnaire, and to a confirmatory factor analysis to examine the validity of the model as a good fit for the data. Based on the results of exploratory factor analysis, a three-factor model underlying metacognitive strategies and a five-factor model underlying cognitive strategies were hypothesized. These models were then evaluated through confirmatory factor analysis using AMOS 18. The results indicated that the current models and their parameters well fit the data gathered from the questionnaires. تفاصيل المقالة
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        2 - The Relationship between the Use and Choice of Communication Strategies and Language Proficiency of Iranian EFL Learners
        فرزاد سلحشور هانیه دوات گری اصل
        Communication strategies (CSs) are systematic attempts by language learners to encode or decode meaning in a target language in situations where the appropriate target language rules have not been formed. Based on this view, communication strategies can be seen as compe أکثر
        Communication strategies (CSs) are systematic attempts by language learners to encode or decode meaning in a target language in situations where the appropriate target language rules have not been formed. Based on this view, communication strategies can be seen as compensatory means for making up for linguistic deficiencies of second or foreign language learners. Within the conceptual framework outlined, this paper is a report on a research conducted at Azarbaijan Teachers Education University on the students majoring in English Language and Literature. The main aim was to seek a relationship between the subjects’ use of communication strategies in solving communication problems and their proficiency levels in English as a foreign language. The data was collected by means of one-to-one interviews with the participants, and were analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively. The results indicated that the frequency of communication strategies applied by the participants varied according to their proficiency levels, i.e. low proficient learners tended to employ more communication strategies in comparison with high and moderate ones. The type of communication strategies employed also varied according to their oral proficiency level. It was revealed that high level participants employed more L2-based communication strategies where the low proficient learners used more L1-based ones. تفاصيل المقالة
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        3 - Strategic Competence and Foreign Language test Performance in Iranian Context
        Siamak Rahimi Behzad Ghonsooly
        A number of studies have accounted the integral role of foreign/second language learning and learner strategy use. However, a few of these studies have considered the relationships between strategic competence and its use and foreign language performance (FLP). This stu أکثر
        A number of studies have accounted the integral role of foreign/second language learning and learner strategy use. However, a few of these studies have considered the relationships between strategic competence and its use and foreign language performance (FLP). This study applied structural equation modeling to deeply investigate the relationships between test takers’ strategy use and their performance on foreign language tests. For this purpose, 147 EFL learners from three well-known branches of a private language institute in Tehran, Iran were chosen. These participants also responded to an 80-item Cognitive and Metacognitive strategy questionnaire and took an 81-item Key English Test (KET). Consequently the hypothesized model of strategic competence vis-à-vis FL test appeared with following findings. First, metacognitive processing (MP) had no direct effect on FLP but a significant, direct influence on cognitive processing (CP), which supports the interaction notion of Bachman and Palmer’s (1996) communicative competence . Second, due to the Iranian EFL context in which Iranian students and teachers show more tendencies toward memorizing vocabulary and analyzing grammar, practicing naturalistically was insignificant and deleted while the translating variable was added, which was highly significant. Third, CP had no significant effect on listening ability which shows that listening ability is much more dependent on contextual factors rather than background knowledge and strategic competence. تفاصيل المقالة
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        4 - تأثیر سن و جنس بر تحول صلاحیت راهبردی حساب در کودکان ایرانی
        محترم نعمت طاوسی علی اکبر سیف
        دراین پژوهش تحول صلاحیت راهبردی دانش آموزان دوره ابتدایی در حل مسایل حساب در یک نمونه تصادفی متشکل از 192 دانش آموز پسر و دختر پایه‎های تحصیلی اول تا سوم ابتدایی شهر تهران با ”آزمون تفاوتهای فردی در انتخابهای راهبرد جمع “، بررسی شد. نتایج پژوهش، مفروضه ه أکثر
        دراین پژوهش تحول صلاحیت راهبردی دانش آموزان دوره ابتدایی در حل مسایل حساب در یک نمونه تصادفی متشکل از 192 دانش آموز پسر و دختر پایه‎های تحصیلی اول تا سوم ابتدایی شهر تهران با ”آزمون تفاوتهای فردی در انتخابهای راهبرد جمع “، بررسی شد. نتایج پژوهش، مفروضه های اساسی الگوی انتخاب راهبرد سازش‎یافته را تأیید کردند و نشان دادند که کودکان ایرانی نیز راهبردهای متعدد را برای حل مسأله‎های جمع ساده به کار بردند. با افزایش سن و تجربه حل مسأله، کودکان راهبردهای جدیدی کشف کردند، سرعت و درستی اجرای هر یک از راهبردها بیشتر شدند، میزان بیادآوری پاسخ مسأله‎ها از حافظه دراز‎مدت افزایش یافت و فراوانیهای نسبی راهبردهای پشتیبان نیز تغییر کردند. بین صلاحیت راهبردی پسران و دختران از لحاظ سرعت، درستی و اجرای راهبردها تفاوت معنادار به دست نیامد. اگرچه یافته‎ها نشان دادند که الگوی تحول راهبردی در کودکان ایرانی با کودکان کشورهای دیگر مشابه است اما این نکته را نیز آشکار کردندکه توزیع انتخابهای راهبردی در کودکان ایرانی به طور قابل ملاحظه ای متفاوت است. تفاصيل المقالة