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زیست شناسی زبان : گفتاری پیرامون خاستگاه بیولوژیک, Ali Jahangard, Hossein Movassagh, Kamrava Ebrahimi Nov 2012

زیست شناسی زبان : گفتاری پیرامون خاستگاه بیولوژیک, Ali Jahangard, Hossein Movassagh, Kamrava Ebrahimi

Ali Jahangard

The book includes the translation of three seminal articles on the biological origin of language faculty into Persian.


Vocabulary Learning And Learners’ Ability To Transfer Their Knowledge Into L2 Reading Comprehension: A Case For Translation, Ali Jahangard Dec 2011

Vocabulary Learning And Learners’ Ability To Transfer Their Knowledge Into L2 Reading Comprehension: A Case For Translation, Ali Jahangard

Ali Jahangard

The purpose of the study was to investigate whether the students who learn their lexical knowledge through translation method are able to transfer the knowledge into reading comprehension .The study consisted of four steps, namely, reading pre-test, lexical instruction, vocabulary testing, and reading post-test. The results showed a significant improvement in the reading scores of the learners in Grade One and Two after the vocabulary instruction treatments were introduced. The results indicated that low-proficiency (Novice-Mid and Novice-High) were able to transfer their lexical knowledge learned through decontextualized translation equivalent teaching method into reading comprehension tasks. The apparent discrepancy between the …