Saeed Ketabi
Biographic Data
| ID | 2824209 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Saeed Ketabi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Saeed |
| FAMILY NAME | Ketabi |
| SIGNATURE | KETABI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Isfahan |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-1630-6555 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Investigating Teachers' and Students’ Evaluation of the Textbook English for Iraq for First and Second Grades of High School Based on Litz's Checklist
The present study investigates Iraqi teachers’ and students’ evaluation of the textbook English for Iraq for first and second grades of high school based on Litz's checklist using a descriptive qualitative method. The sample of this study was 2textbook books entitled “English for Iraq for 1st Intermediate” and “English for Iraq for 2nd Intermediate”. The research data was collected from the Evaluation checklist of experts consisting of 5 Points i…
The Effect of Using Cooperative Learning Strategies on Learning Grammar by Iraqi EFL Learners
This study was an attempt to examine the effect of using cooperative learning strategies on learning simple present and present continuous by elementary Iraqi EFL learners. For this purpose, 60 Iraqi EFL students of the seventh grade (first grade of high school) from two intact classes were selected from among the female Iraqi high school students studying in Maysan, Iraq. They attended the pre-test of the target grammar points. Then, the treatme…
A ‘Requiem’ for the short-lived democracy in Iran in the 1950s
This paper challenges the conventional histories concerning early translations of dramas in Iran through a sociohistorical reading of Jamalzadeh's Persianized representation of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People in 1961. Focusing on Bourdieu's theory of practice toned with Pym's translation historiography, the authors explore the 'whys' of Jamalzadeh's motives when he opted to translate Ibsen's drama. The article, therefore, examines Jamalzadeh's rew…
Evaluating linguistic comprehensibility of Persian healthcare translations in multilingual contexts
Health translation has gotten considerable attention recently because language diversity in multilingual societies often leads to language barriers. The present study evaluates the linguistic comprehensibility of translations in the "Health Translations Website" from the Victorian Government of Australia using the patient-oriented and culturally-appropriate health translation model (POCA). Seven documents were randomly chosen from the website wit…
Investigating the Effect of Task Type and Modality on Flow Experience Among Intermediate Persian EFL Learners
The impact of linguistic background on the nature of classroom dyadic interactions
Framed within the perspective of Vygotskyan sociocultural theory and models of third language learning, this study examined the impact of differing linguistic backgrounds and learning experience on the nature of dyadic interaction during task completion in the divide between true L2 and L3 learners. It was conducted in an EFL classroom with eight leaners of English as first and eight learners of English as second foreign language after French. Th…
Mobile Social Network Sites (MSNSs) for Iranian EFL Teachers’ Professional Development
Oral corrective feedback on written errors
The current study investigated the differential effect of two types of oral feedback – graduated oral corrective feedback (GOCF) in accordance with sociocultural theory (SCT) and supplemented direct oral corrective feedback (SDOCF) in accordance with cognitive-interactionist theory (CIT) – on Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners’ written errors. The study used a pretest-treatment-immediate posttest-delayed posttest design with three groups. Two …
First versus subsequent foreign language development in situated interaction from a Vygotskyan SCT perspective
The present study compared L2 and L3 learners of the same additional language in two parallel case studies framed within a Vygotskyan SCT perspective to examine how foreign language learners’ background knowledge impacts on the path of their development. Interactive data were collected on the development of interrogative formation by four Persian learners of English (N = 2) and French (N = 2) in sessions tutored by a Persian L1, English L2, Frenc…
On conductive argumentation
Inspired by Aristotle and modern political theory,Fairclough and Fairclough (2012)introduce a model into Political Discourse Analysis (PDA) on the basis of deliberation and conductive argumentation (reasoning). This study makes an attempt to appraise the efficacy and adequacy of this model through examining Trump’s UN speech on Iran in 2017 in the light of other mainstream analytic tools and frameworks of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The fi…
Advanced and intermediate EFL learners’ perceptions and practices of autonomous learning
This study examined Persian intermediate and advanced EFL learners’ perceptions regarding (a) their own and their teachers’ responsibility in learning language autonomously; (b) their decision making ability in learning language autonomously; and (c) their autonomous learning activities inside and outside the classroom. To this end, a questionnaire designed by Chan, Spratt, and Humphrey (2002) was distributed among 67 intermediate and 65 advanced…
Raters’ Fatigue and Their Comments During Scoring Writing Essays
Rating accuracy in writing among EFL learners is crucial in determining their English proficiency. Despite the importance of its accuracy, little is known about various factors may affect the accuracy of rating writing essays. This study examines how raters’ comments on EFL writing tasks change as a result of fatigue. To this end, four raters were selected and each given 28 essays to score and comment on. Six general types of raters’ comments (i.…
Levels of Reading Comprehension Across Text Types
EFL Learners' Levels of Comprehension Across Text Structures
Design, Construct Validation, and Integrated Application of a Happiness Teaching Perceptions Inventory (HTPI)
Educating Autonomous Translators in Distance Learning
Surprisingly, translator training in distance learning is under-researched in Translation Studies and the scholars in the field have simply ignored the fundamental differences between distance and traditional modes of translator training. This study is a preliminary attempt to draw attention to this neglected area of research. Firstly, the study made an attempt to determine a set of criteria for educating functional and autonomous translation tra…
The Role of Culture Through the Eyes of Different Approaches to and Methods of Foreign Language Teaching
It is commonly accepted that language is a part of culture and that it plays a very important role in it. However, the priority given to the place of culture as a significant component in language teaching has not been equally the same in different approaches and methods of foreign language teaching. This paper explores the role of culture in language teaching and the importance of the integration of culture into the teaching of language in tradi…
Ideological manipulation in subtitling
This study sets out to investigate the translation strategies, especially within the domain of non-equivalent options, applied by the subtitler to the English version of a speech by Iran's current President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The overall aim is to see whether there is any ideological manipulation in the subtitled version and also whether or not the emphasis and implications of the speech remain intact. To this end, we will apply a twofold theo…
Task difficulty and self‐repair behavior in second language oral production
This study investigated how the degree of task difficulty, operationalized as the existence of a loose or tight storyline structure, affects self‐repair behavior in L2 oral speech. Thirty Iranian female lower‐intermediate EFL learners performed two oral narrative tasks, with loose and tight storyline structures. Then, they listened to the audio‐tapes of their own performances and were asked to report their thoughts at the time they were performin…
Change of the state representation of words in viewing instantaneous speech texts
This study focused on one aspect of vocabulary knowledge, namely, change of the state representation of words in the lexicon, by providing a type of multi‐sensory input in the form of instantaneous speech text of subtitled DVD. The purpose was to see whether this type of input could fulfill the needs of advanced learners for the immediate cognitive regulation of their knowledge. To this end, two types of subtitles were used in a counterbalanced d…
Task difficulty and self‐repair behavior in second language oral production
This study investigated how the degree of task difficulty, operationalized as the existence of a loose or tight storyline structure, affects self‐repair behavior in L2 oral speech. Thirty Iranian female lower‐intermediate EFL learners performed two oral narrative tasks, with loose and tight storyline structures. Then, they listened to the audio‐tapes of their own performances and were asked to report their thoughts at the time they were performin…
A ‘Requiem’ for the short-lived democracy in Iran in the 1950s
This paper challenges the conventional histories concerning early translations of dramas in Iran through a sociohistorical reading of Jamalzadeh's Persianized representation of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People in 1961. Focusing on Bourdieu's theory of practice toned with Pym's translation historiography, the authors explore the 'whys' of Jamalzadeh's motives when he opted to translate Ibsen's drama. The article, therefore, examines Jamalzadeh's rew…
Levels of Reading Comprehension Across Text Types
EFL Learners' Levels of Comprehension Across Text Structures
The Role of Culture Through the Eyes of Different Approaches to and Methods of Foreign Language Teaching
It is commonly accepted that language is a part of culture and that it plays a very important role in it. However, the priority given to the place of culture as a significant component in language teaching has not been equally the same in different approaches and methods of foreign language teaching. This paper explores the role of culture in language teaching and the importance of the integration of culture into the teaching of language in tradi…
Ideological manipulation in subtitling
This study sets out to investigate the translation strategies, especially within the domain of non-equivalent options, applied by the subtitler to the English version of a speech by Iran's current President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The overall aim is to see whether there is any ideological manipulation in the subtitled version and also whether or not the emphasis and implications of the speech remain intact. To this end, we will apply a twofold theo…
Task difficulty and self‐repair behavior in second language oral production
This study investigated how the degree of task difficulty, operationalized as the existence of a loose or tight storyline structure, affects self‐repair behavior in L2 oral speech. Thirty Iranian female lower‐intermediate EFL learners performed two oral narrative tasks, with loose and tight storyline structures. Then, they listened to the audio‐tapes of their own performances and were asked to report their thoughts at the time they were performin…
Change of the state representation of words in viewing instantaneous speech texts
This study focused on one aspect of vocabulary knowledge, namely, change of the state representation of words in the lexicon, by providing a type of multi‐sensory input in the form of instantaneous speech text of subtitled DVD. The purpose was to see whether this type of input could fulfill the needs of advanced learners for the immediate cognitive regulation of their knowledge. To this end, two types of subtitles were used in a counterbalanced d…
Ideological manipulation in subtitling
This study sets out to investigate the translation strategies, especially within the domain of non-equivalent options, applied by the subtitler to the English version of a speech by Iran's current President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The overall aim is to see whether there is any ideological manipulation in the subtitled version and also whether or not the emphasis and implications of the speech remain intact. To this end, we will apply a twofold theo…
Educating Autonomous Translators in Distance Learning
Surprisingly, translator training in distance learning is under-researched in Translation Studies and the scholars in the field have simply ignored the fundamental differences between distance and traditional modes of translator training. This study is a preliminary attempt to draw attention to this neglected area of research. Firstly, the study made an attempt to determine a set of criteria for educating functional and autonomous translation tra…
The Role of Culture Through the Eyes of Different Approaches to and Methods of Foreign Language Teaching
It is commonly accepted that language is a part of culture and that it plays a very important role in it. However, the priority given to the place of culture as a significant component in language teaching has not been equally the same in different approaches and methods of foreign language teaching. This paper explores the role of culture in language teaching and the importance of the integration of culture into the teaching of language in tradi…
Design, Construct Validation, and Integrated Application of a Happiness Teaching Perceptions Inventory (HTPI)
EFL Learners' Levels of Comprehension Across Text Structures
Advanced and intermediate EFL learners’ perceptions and practices of autonomous learning
This study examined Persian intermediate and advanced EFL learners’ perceptions regarding (a) their own and their teachers’ responsibility in learning language autonomously; (b) their decision making ability in learning language autonomously; and (c) their autonomous learning activities inside and outside the classroom. To this end, a questionnaire designed by Chan, Spratt, and Humphrey (2002) was distributed among 67 intermediate and 65 advanced…
Raters’ Fatigue and Their Comments During Scoring Writing Essays
Rating accuracy in writing among EFL learners is crucial in determining their English proficiency. Despite the importance of its accuracy, little is known about various factors may affect the accuracy of rating writing essays. This study examines how raters’ comments on EFL writing tasks change as a result of fatigue. To this end, four raters were selected and each given 28 essays to score and comment on. Six general types of raters’ comments (i.…
Levels of Reading Comprehension Across Text Types
First versus subsequent foreign language development in situated interaction from a Vygotskyan SCT perspective
The present study compared L2 and L3 learners of the same additional language in two parallel case studies framed within a Vygotskyan SCT perspective to examine how foreign language learners’ background knowledge impacts on the path of their development. Interactive data were collected on the development of interrogative formation by four Persian learners of English (N = 2) and French (N = 2) in sessions tutored by a Persian L1, English L2, Frenc…
On conductive argumentation
Inspired by Aristotle and modern political theory,Fairclough and Fairclough (2012)introduce a model into Political Discourse Analysis (PDA) on the basis of deliberation and conductive argumentation (reasoning). This study makes an attempt to appraise the efficacy and adequacy of this model through examining Trump’s UN speech on Iran in 2017 in the light of other mainstream analytic tools and frameworks of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The fi…
Oral corrective feedback on written errors
The current study investigated the differential effect of two types of oral feedback – graduated oral corrective feedback (GOCF) in accordance with sociocultural theory (SCT) and supplemented direct oral corrective feedback (SDOCF) in accordance with cognitive-interactionist theory (CIT) – on Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners’ written errors. The study used a pretest-treatment-immediate posttest-delayed posttest design with three groups. Two …
Mobile Social Network Sites (MSNSs) for Iranian EFL Teachers’ Professional Development
The impact of linguistic background on the nature of classroom dyadic interactions
Framed within the perspective of Vygotskyan sociocultural theory and models of third language learning, this study examined the impact of differing linguistic backgrounds and learning experience on the nature of dyadic interaction during task completion in the divide between true L2 and L3 learners. It was conducted in an EFL classroom with eight leaners of English as first and eight learners of English as second foreign language after French. Th…
Evaluating linguistic comprehensibility of Persian healthcare translations in multilingual contexts
Health translation has gotten considerable attention recently because language diversity in multilingual societies often leads to language barriers. The present study evaluates the linguistic comprehensibility of translations in the "Health Translations Website" from the Victorian Government of Australia using the patient-oriented and culturally-appropriate health translation model (POCA). Seven documents were randomly chosen from the website wit…
Investigating the Effect of Task Type and Modality on Flow Experience Among Intermediate Persian EFL Learners
Investigating Teachers' and Students’ Evaluation of the Textbook English for Iraq for First and Second Grades of High School Based on Litz's Checklist
The present study investigates Iraqi teachers’ and students’ evaluation of the textbook English for Iraq for first and second grades of high school based on Litz's checklist using a descriptive qualitative method. The sample of this study was 2textbook books entitled “English for Iraq for 1st Intermediate” and “English for Iraq for 2nd Intermediate”. The research data was collected from the Evaluation checklist of experts consisting of 5 Points i…
The Effect of Using Cooperative Learning Strategies on Learning Grammar by Iraqi EFL Learners
This study was an attempt to examine the effect of using cooperative learning strategies on learning simple present and present continuous by elementary Iraqi EFL learners. For this purpose, 60 Iraqi EFL students of the seventh grade (first grade of high school) from two intact classes were selected from among the female Iraqi high school students studying in Maysan, Iraq. They attended the pre-test of the target grammar points. Then, the treatme…
A ‘Requiem’ for the short-lived democracy in Iran in the 1950s
This paper challenges the conventional histories concerning early translations of dramas in Iran through a sociohistorical reading of Jamalzadeh's Persianized representation of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People in 1961. Focusing on Bourdieu's theory of practice toned with Pym's translation historiography, the authors explore the 'whys' of Jamalzadeh's motives when he opted to translate Ibsen's drama. The article, therefore, examines Jamalzadeh's rew…
Psychology (18 works) · Linguistics (14 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Mathematics education (10 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Cognition (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works)