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The Relationship Between Multiple Intelligences And Reading Proficiency Of Iranian Efl Students, Karim Hajhashemi, Kourosh Akef, Neil Anderson
The Relationship Between Multiple Intelligences And Reading Proficiency Of Iranian Efl Students, Karim Hajhashemi, Kourosh Akef, Neil Anderson
Karim Hajhashemi
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between multiple intelligences (MI) and reading proficiency of Iranian EFL pre-university students and to look into the role that gender plays. To find out the relationships among the naturally occurring variables, the researcher employed a descriptive and ex post facto design. The participants were 128 randomly selected pre-university students. The researcher utilized three instruments, namely: 1) a demographic questionnaire; 2) the Persian version of Mckenzie’s MI Inventory; and 3) a standardized reading proficiency test retrieved from paper-based TOEFL® tests. Analyzing the data using t-test, it was found that there was …
A Brief Review Of Theoretical Underpinning, Definitions And Typical Configurations Of Collaborative Writing, Seyed Yasin Yazdi Amirkhiz, Kamariah Abu Bakar, Roselan Baki, Arshad Abd Samad, Karim Hajhashemi
A Brief Review Of Theoretical Underpinning, Definitions And Typical Configurations Of Collaborative Writing, Seyed Yasin Yazdi Amirkhiz, Kamariah Abu Bakar, Roselan Baki, Arshad Abd Samad, Karim Hajhashemi
Karim Hajhashemi
The aim of this paper is to review the underlying concepts, theoretical background, the existing definitions, various forms of collaborative writing normally used in educational settings as well as some sample studies carried out in different contexts. The article begins by providing an epistemological dichotomy of the existing educational paradigms and discusses the positioning of collaborative learning in relation to the dichotomy (transmissional vs. transformative). It then considers how collaborative writing is theoretically backed up by the ideas of Bakhtin (1981), Halliday (1978), and Vygotsky (1978). The review also compares the salient definitions of collaborative writing and critically contrasts various …
The Relationship Between Iranian Efl High School Students’ Multiple Intelligence Scores And Their Use Of Learning Strategies, Karim Hajhashemi, Fatemeh Parasteh Ghombavani, Seyed Yasin Yazdi Amirkhiz
The Relationship Between Iranian Efl High School Students’ Multiple Intelligence Scores And Their Use Of Learning Strategies, Karim Hajhashemi, Fatemeh Parasteh Ghombavani, Seyed Yasin Yazdi Amirkhiz
Karim Hajhashemi
According to the theory of multiple intelligences (MI) propounded by Gardner (1983, 1999a, 1999b), each individual has a multitude of intelligences that are quite independent of each other and each individual has a unique cognitive profile. Having access to the MI profiles and learning strategies of learners could help the teachers in planning activities to connect both strategies and students’ talents and provide students with the best possible instruction. Thus, this study attempts to find out the relationship between the MI profiles and language learning strategies used by Iranian EFL high school students. Two hundred and twenty-nine students (121 males, …
A Validation Study Of The Persian Version Of Mckenzie's (1999) Multiple Intelligences Inventory To Measure Mi Profiles Of Pre-University Students, Karim Hajhashemi, Wong Bee Eng
A Validation Study Of The Persian Version Of Mckenzie's (1999) Multiple Intelligences Inventory To Measure Mi Profiles Of Pre-University Students, Karim Hajhashemi, Wong Bee Eng
Karim Hajhashemi
Traditionally, intelligence was viewed as a single static entity. Revolutionizing the once-dominated “single-static entity” conceptualization, Gardner initially (1983) proposed his theory of Multiple intelligences (MI) that encompasses seven different areas of intelligence (verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical-rhythmic, visual-spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal), and later on added the eighth and ninth areas (naturalist and existential) in 1999. Based on the theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI), a person may be viewed as intelligent in any of these areas, and the identification of the dominant intelligence type has proven to have pedagogic implications. McKenzie’s MI questionnaire (1999) is one of the established tools to identify …