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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 …
Mi As A Predictor Of Students’ Performance In Reading Competency, Karim Hajhashemi, Wong Bee Eng
Mi As A Predictor Of Students’ Performance In Reading Competency, Karim Hajhashemi, Wong Bee Eng
Dr. Karim Hajhashemi
The purpose of this study was to examine whether performance in MI could predict the performance in reading competency. The other objectives were to identify the components of MI which are correlated with the reading test scores, and to determine the relationship between the multiple intelligences and reading proficiency. A descriptive and ex post facto design was employed to ascertain relationships among the variables. The participants were 128 randomly chosen pre-university students (grade12, 18-19 years old) of both genders studying in Tehran in the academic year 2008-2009. Three instruments were utilized in this study: 1) a demographic questionnaire; 2) the …
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 …
Discourse Contexts And Article Use Among Malaysian School Students, Arshad Abd Samad
Discourse Contexts And Article Use Among Malaysian School Students, Arshad Abd Samad
Arshad Abd Samad
Several studies have examined the interconnection between discourse contexts and structural form. Chaudron and Parker (1990), for example, investigated the structural form used to encode the referent subject Noun Phrase in new, known, and current discourse contexts. These three contexts relate to when a new referent is used as the topic of a discourse, when a known referent is used as the topic and when there is continued reference to the topic after it has been established in the discourse. Mellow and Fuller (1995) also used the same three discourse contexts to examine article use for specific referent nouns. Investigating …
Article Use And Specific And Known Reference Among Higher Proficiency Malaysian Esl Students., Arshad Abd Samad
Article Use And Specific And Known Reference Among Higher Proficiency Malaysian Esl Students., Arshad Abd Samad
Arshad Abd Samad
Huebner (1979) categorises articles into 4 categories according to whether the noun phrase the articles encode is of specific reference and whether it is known to the hearer. Ekiert (2002) adds a fifth category which is made up of the use of the article to encode noun phrases in idioms. In Ekiert’s study, the accuracy rates of ESL and EFL native speakers of Polish in these five categories were examined. This paper will report on a exploratory study that adopts and modifies the instrument used by Ekiert and examines the accuracy rates of Malaysian advanced ESL students. The results indicate …
The Written Recall Protocol As An Alternative Reading Comprehension Test, Rafiah Abd Rahman, Zaitun Abd Majid, Arshad Abd Samad
The Written Recall Protocol As An Alternative Reading Comprehension Test, Rafiah Abd Rahman, Zaitun Abd Majid, Arshad Abd Samad
Arshad Abd Samad
Reading comprehension is a complex behaviour involving conscious and unconscious use of various strategies. Its assessment, therefore, cannot be taken for granted as it may require specialised test formats that can effectively measure the use of these strategies. According to Alderson (2000), no single test method can fulfil all the varied purposes for which we might test. Certain methods are commonly used merely for reasons of convenience and efficiency, often at the expense of validity. Therefore, it is naïve to assume that a single method commonly applied to all students and situations can be the most valid. Several test formats …