Mohammad Tamimy
Biographic Data
| ID | 6509726 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mohammad Tamimy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mohammad |
| FAMILY NAME | Tamimy |
| SIGNATURE | TAMIMY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Shiraz University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6024-6940 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Teachers’ personality
Many controlled experiments, even in the realm of English language teaching (ELT), champion group work, in one form or another, as a magic bullet to educational problems, capable of improving achievement, motivation, and peace. However, it is not extensively used, so that its full benefits are reaped. Among the factors known to plague the use of group work in classes— including learners’ culture, time limitations, and free-riding—the attention to…
Collectivism and individualism in US culture
Group work has recently gained attention in educational settings, and culture is an important factor influencing group work so the connection between the American culture and attitudes towards group work is worth studying. The present corpus-based study utilises the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) to determine the current and the longitudinal traits of American cultural attitudes, which could influence the Americans’ disposition to…
The use of cooperative learning in English as foreign language classes
Americans’ cultural attitudes to group work
The role of culture, especially the American culture, in group work is relatively understudied because it is often presumed to be no different from the colonialist West, or is alternatively stereotyped as individualistic and competitive. Thus, this paper studies English-language proverbs used in America, as culturally rich symbols, at three levels of discourse, conceptual metaphor, and content to discern what attitude American culture, as represe…
The Cultural Attitudes Towards Cooperative Learning
Cooperative Learning (CL) is acclaimed for its effectiveness, but is not widely used, partly because the role of culture in its implementation is overlooked. To fill this gap and to introduce an alternative methodology for the study of culture, this interdisciplinary paper examines Iranian proverbs to see how Iranians' culture feels about group work and what psychosocial factors contribute to their attitudes. The findings suggest Iranians’ cultur…
Consistencies and Inconsistencies Between Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices
This instrumental-comparative qualitative case study attempts to investigate the relations between teachers’ beliefs and classroom practices. For this purpose, five Iranian EFL teachers from three private language institutes were interviewed for their beliefs. Then, their classroom practices were observed and videotaped. The data were analyzed using the constant comparative method around common categories, which were identified as distinctive fea…
Consistencies and Inconsistencies Between Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices
This instrumental-comparative qualitative case study attempts to investigate the relations between teachers’ beliefs and classroom practices. For this purpose, five Iranian EFL teachers from three private language institutes were interviewed for their beliefs. Then, their classroom practices were observed and videotaped. The data were analyzed using the constant comparative method around common categories, which were identified as distinctive fea…
Consistencies and Inconsistencies Between Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices
This instrumental-comparative qualitative case study attempts to investigate the relations between teachers’ beliefs and classroom practices. For this purpose, five Iranian EFL teachers from three private language institutes were interviewed for their beliefs. Then, their classroom practices were observed and videotaped. The data were analyzed using the constant comparative method around common categories, which were identified as distinctive fea…
The Cultural Attitudes Towards Cooperative Learning
Cooperative Learning (CL) is acclaimed for its effectiveness, but is not widely used, partly because the role of culture in its implementation is overlooked. To fill this gap and to introduce an alternative methodology for the study of culture, this interdisciplinary paper examines Iranian proverbs to see how Iranians' culture feels about group work and what psychosocial factors contribute to their attitudes. The findings suggest Iranians’ cultur…
Americans’ cultural attitudes to group work
The role of culture, especially the American culture, in group work is relatively understudied because it is often presumed to be no different from the colonialist West, or is alternatively stereotyped as individualistic and competitive. Thus, this paper studies English-language proverbs used in America, as culturally rich symbols, at three levels of discourse, conceptual metaphor, and content to discern what attitude American culture, as represe…
Collectivism and individualism in US culture
Group work has recently gained attention in educational settings, and culture is an important factor influencing group work so the connection between the American culture and attitudes towards group work is worth studying. The present corpus-based study utilises the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) to determine the current and the longitudinal traits of American cultural attitudes, which could influence the Americans’ disposition to…
The use of cooperative learning in English as foreign language classes
Teachers’ personality
Many controlled experiments, even in the realm of English language teaching (ELT), champion group work, in one form or another, as a magic bullet to educational problems, capable of improving achievement, motivation, and peace. However, it is not extensively used, so that its full benefits are reaped. Among the factors known to plague the use of group work in classes— including learners’ culture, time limitations, and free-riding—the attention to…
Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Ambivalence (2 works) · Collectivism (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Distrust (2 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (2 works)