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Varzande, Mohsen; Jadidi, Esmaeil – English Language Teaching, 2015
Translators differ from each other in many ways in terms of their knowledge, professional and psychological conditions that may directly influence their translation. The present study aimed at investigating the impact of translators' Emotional Intelligence on their translation quality. Following a "causal-comparative study," a sample of…
Descriptors: Translation, Emotional Intelligence, Comparative Analysis, Professional Personnel
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Sriwantaneeyakul, Suttawan – English Language Teaching, 2018
Translation ability requires many language skills to produce an accurate and complete text; however, one important skill, critical reading in the research, has been neglected. This research, therefore, employed the explanatory sequential mixed method to investigate the differences in Thai-English translation ability between students with a high…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Reading Skills, Translation, Semantics
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Babaee, Siamak; Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam; Babaee, Ruzbeh – English Language Teaching, 2014
Some scholars (Bassnett-McGuire, Catford, Brislin) suggest that a good piece of translation should be a strict reflection of the style of the original text while some others (Gui, Newmark, Wilss) consider the original text untranslatable unless it is reproduced. Opposing views by different critics suggest that translation is still a challenging…
Descriptors: Translation, Second Languages, Creativity, Cultural Awareness
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Araghizade, Elmira; Jadidi, Esmaeil – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study aimed to determine the relationship between translators' epistemological beliefs and gender on their Persian-to-English translation quality. To do so, a group of 53 MA translation students both male and female were selected, through convenient sampling to participate in this study. For data collection two instruments were employed: 1…
Descriptors: Translation, Epistemology, Beliefs, Gender Differences
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Giveh, Fatemeh – English Language Teaching, 2018
The present study tried to investigate one of the options for improving self-directed learning in Iranian EFL learners, i.e., contemplative L2 instruction with a flavor of transformative instruction. Accordingly, it adopted a quasi-experimental design to investigate the influential effects that contemplative teaching would exert on Iranian EFL…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Independent Study, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Zhang, Tongtong; Wu, Zhiwei – English Language Teaching, 2017
In recent years, a growing number of people have taken up interpreting training, with the intention of not only developing interpreting skills, but improving language proficiency as well. The present study sets out to investigate the impact of English-Chinese consecutive interpreting (CI) training on the enhancement of the second language (L2,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Listening Skills, Teaching Methods
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Masrai, Ahmed; Milton, James – English Language Teaching, 2015
This study investigates word difficulty and learning among learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) in Saudi Arabia. Difficulty factors examined in the study include repetition of words in learners' EFL textbooks, word length and parts of speech, and adds a further consideration which is underexplored in the literature; word translation…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Syllables
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Varzande, Mohsen; Jadidi, Esmaeil – English Language Teaching, 2015
Translators differ from each other in many ways in terms of their knowledge and professional conditions that may directly influence their translation. The present study aimed at investigating the impact of translators' academic experience on their translation quality. Following a "causal-comparative study", a sample of 100 male and…
Descriptors: Translation, Educational Attainment, Educational Quality, Sampling
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Bamanger, Ebrahim M.; Gashan, Amani K. – English Language Teaching, 2014
Recent trends in teacher education have focused on exploring teachers' beliefs. Earlier studies have shown the important influence of teachers' beliefs on teaching practices. The present study was conducted to explore the beliefs of Saudi EFL teachers about the significance of teaching English reading strategies. The study aimed also to find the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Reading Strategies
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Mohammadzadeh, Afsaneh; Jafarigohar, Manoochehr – English Language Teaching, 2012
The present study was conducted to examine the existence of any possible relationship between willingness to communicate (WTC) and multiple intelligences (MI) among over 500 EFL learners. The study also investigated the effect of gender on the relationship between these two constructs. The data for the research were gathered using a three-part…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Communication (Thought Transfer), Multiple Intelligences
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Heidari, Farrokhlagha; Izadi, Mehri; Ahmadian, Mansooreh Vahed – English Language Teaching, 2012
This study explores the relationship between Iranian EFL juniors' self-efficacy beliefs and their employed vocabulary learning strategies. The participants were 50 juniors studying English Translation at University of Sistan & Baluchestan. The self-efficacy and vocabulary learning strategies questionnaires were administered to identify the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beliefs, Self Efficacy, Learning Strategies
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Mohammadi, Esmaeel Nour; Heidari, Farrokhlagha; Niry, Nasrin Dehghan – English Language Teaching, 2012
The current empirical study aimed to identify those categories of reading strategies (cognitive, meta-cognitive, and compensation) that are mostly used by Iranian EFL learners, and investigate if there is any significant relationship between critical thinking ability and reading strategies used by these learners. It also pursued if there is any…
Descriptors: Correlation, Critical Thinking, Reading Strategies, English (Second Language)
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Hajilou, Y.; Yazdani, H.; Shokrpour, N. – English Language Teaching, 2012
This study aimed to determine the relationship between creativity on one hand and lexical reception and production knowledge of Iranian EFL students on the other hand. The data were collected using three tests: a creativity test (Torrance, 1990), the Vocabulary Levels Test (Schmitt, Schmitt, & Clapham, 2001), and the Productive Version of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creativity, English (Second Language), Lexicology
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Ezzi, Nemah Abdullah Ayash – English Language Teaching, 2012
Beliefs of in-service English teachers about grammar learning/teaching and the influence of such beliefs on their classroom practices remain relatively unexplored. More precisely, this study explores English teachers' beliefs about grammar learning and teaching. It throws light on the teachers' actual practices in the classrooms of 7th -12th…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Grammar, Grammar Translation Method
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Hatam, Amir Hussein; Shafiei, Shilan – English Language Teaching, 2012
The purpose of the present study was twofold. Firstly, it tried to investigate the relationship between the technical English proficiency of the students of Mechanical Engineering in the universities of Iran and their technical translation proficiency in translating technical texts of Mechanics. Secondly, it attempted to evaluate the effectiveness…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English for Special Purposes, Translation, Language Proficiency