Research Article
Nadya Alkola; Sara Khazai
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Charles Dickens’ Little Dorrit incorporates an appealing realistic treatment of social and institutional secrets. Realism is characterized by its attention to details beyond the story world. This article proposes that Dickens portrays social and institutional secrets as unfair game systems, controlled ...
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Charles Dickens’ Little Dorrit incorporates an appealing realistic treatment of social and institutional secrets. Realism is characterized by its attention to details beyond the story world. This article proposes that Dickens portrays social and institutional secrets as unfair game systems, controlled by dominant authorities and represented by upper-class characters. This study builds on game theory in an effort to spot the game system Dickens utilizes to reflect the unfair interactions resulting from social and institutional secrets. It is concluded that Dickens’ artistic skills as a realist are not limited to faithful narrativity and mere accurate storytelling of events, rather it extends to utilizing systematic and very detailed structural representations of the contest between authorities hiding information and their victims in works like Little Dorrit, reflecting the exact system that underlines similar social, institutional, secret-based situations that Dickens observed in the world around him.
Research Article
Language Education
Elham Sobati; Zahra Mowlaei; tahereh afshar; Mehdi Omidi
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This research aims to analyze the types of errors Persian–Kurdish bilingual learners make when using articles in the English language and investigate the effect of flipped learning on their performance based on the theory of mental spaces. This study focused on the types of errors produced by 92 ...
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This research aims to analyze the types of errors Persian–Kurdish bilingual learners make when using articles in the English language and investigate the effect of flipped learning on their performance based on the theory of mental spaces. This study focused on the types of errors produced by 92 bilingual Kurdish-Persian female students aged 12 to 15 and 32 female students aged 18 to 21 in the fields of psychology and accounting. The research method in this study was descriptive-analytical and the data were collected through a close-ended questionnaire. The findings showed that the frequency of errors resulting from the inappropriate use of articles was higher than the frequency of errors resulting from not using them among language learners. Also, the results of this study showed that teachers can use this approach to teach learners about the mental spaces of the English language through articles and to create sustainable learning. In addition, the implementation of the flipped learning strategy among language learners has increased communication among them and also caused interaction between teachers and language learners. Using flipped learning encouraged language learners to be more active and improve their learning by creating a competitive environment.
Research Article
Translation Studies
Abolfazl Horri
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This article compares four Persian translations of Shakespearean sonnets, analyzing selected verses through the lens of Holmes’s translation strategies. The study aims to identify prevailing translation strategies. According to Holmes, the translated poetry is a ‘meta-poetry’, and the ...
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This article compares four Persian translations of Shakespearean sonnets, analyzing selected verses through the lens of Holmes’s translation strategies. The study aims to identify prevailing translation strategies. According to Holmes, the translated poetry is a ‘meta-poetry’, and the translator, a ‘meta-poet’, attempts to recreate the verbal essence within a structure that closely mirrors the original poem. The employed methodology is qualitative-analytical and is positioned within the framework of translation studies. The four types of meta-poem—imitative, analogical, organic, and deviant—are categorized into two approaches: the first two are form-derivative, while the latter two are content-derivative. Results show that Tabibzadeh’s translation follows an analogical strategy, producing translations that resemble the meta-poetry of Shakespearean sonnets in Persian. Tafazzoli’s translation is form-derivative, Moghadam’s translation employs a deviant strategy, and Abjadiyan’s translation adopts a middle path. Overall, this study highlights the importance of translation strategies in creating effective and faithful translations of poetry.
Research Article
English Language and Literature
Alireza Khazaee; Zohreh Taebi Noghandari; Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh
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Althusser believed governments require toolkits to fulfill the desires of the ruling class. He proposed that the old-school scheme of the earlier Marxists, that governments functioned solely by repression, is inadequate and cannot explain how the society goes under service voluntarily. He divided the ...
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Althusser believed governments require toolkits to fulfill the desires of the ruling class. He proposed that the old-school scheme of the earlier Marxists, that governments functioned solely by repression, is inadequate and cannot explain how the society goes under service voluntarily. He divided the governing tools into ideological (ISA) and repressive (RSA) and proposed that the constant functions of the former keep the society balanced, and the latter backs it up by prioritizing violence and force. This research analyzes the instances of the failure of the ISA in the society of A Clockwork Orange (1962) (ACO). The protagonist is a teenager greatly prizing his individuality. Almost all the ISA-related institutions cannot affect him. Subtly, ACO (1962) makes every part of the ISA responsible for the protagonist's fate. The results indicate that while ISAs in ACO (1962) are at work, they are malfunctioning.
Research Article
Language Education
Zahra Mahmoudabadi
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his study explored the strategies employed by Iranian EFL teachers to correct their induced errors in the classroom. The extent to which each strategy was used by the teachers was examined and the factors influencing their selection of error correction strategies were investigated. Twelve experienced ...
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his study explored the strategies employed by Iranian EFL teachers to correct their induced errors in the classroom. The extent to which each strategy was used by the teachers was examined and the factors influencing their selection of error correction strategies were investigated. Twelve experienced Iranian EFL teachers were purposefully selected to participate in the study. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, classroom observations, and stimulated recall interviews. The data was analyzed using a thematic analysis approach. The findings revealed that the participating teachers employed various strategies to address their induced errors, including immediate self-correction, delayed self-correction, eliciting learner correction, and acknowledging and explaining errors. These strategies were influenced by factors such as pedagogical beliefs, content knowledge, and classroom management skills. The teachers generally viewed their induced errors as more serious and in need of immediate correction compared to learner errors.
Research Article
Language Education
Mitra Zeraatpishe; Farnaz Farrokh Alaee; Farnaz Baradarn Farshchi
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The current study aims to scrutinize the theta/beta-ratio (TBR) brain oscillatory activities during T/F test of reading comprehension. The research utilized a quasi-experimental design. Thirty intermediate EFL learners (15 males, 15 females) were selected to participate in the study. They completed T/F-reading-test, ...
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The current study aims to scrutinize the theta/beta-ratio (TBR) brain oscillatory activities during T/F test of reading comprehension. The research utilized a quasi-experimental design. Thirty intermediate EFL learners (15 males, 15 females) were selected to participate in the study. They completed T/F-reading-test, while their brain oscillations were measured using quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG). Results revealed significant differences between the values indicating TBR before- and while-doing the test. Similarly, the topographic findings showed decrease in TBR power on the Fz, Pz and Cz regions of the brain under the task of reading and suggested the promising role of the reading comprehension T/F test at the intermediate level in modifying the TBR power and raising internally directed attention. The study has implications for all scholars in the field of TEFL to apply interdisciplinary approaches and to highlight the importance of reading comprehension tests to enhance attention.
