The Second Postgraduate Conference Timetable

Faculty of Foreign languages, University of Isfahan

Esfand 6, 1388 (February 25, 2010)

Thursday Esfand 6 (Morning)

08:00 – 8:45 Registration and opening ceremony Main Hall
08: 45 – 09: 30 KEYNOTE Dr. Susan Marandi
SPEAKER Reflecting before graduating: Reviving old ambitions and Main Hall
taking up new ones
09:30 – 09:50 Break(SERVING)

Parisa University Teachers’ and Students’ Perceptions Hall 1

10: 00 – 10:25 Abdolrezapour of EAP Methodologies and Their Effectiveness

FaridAhmady The Assessment of High School Textbook Material

Ali Heidari Hall 2
Based on Checklists: Are we on the right track?

Mehdi Latifi Simplifying the text or simplifying the task: how to

Hall 3
Elham Mohammadi improve listening comprehension?

Dr. Mansoor Tavakoli The Effect of Curriculum-Based Measurement on

Hall 4
Samira Atefi Borujeni Learners' Achievement in Reading and Grammar:
A Case of Iranian High School Students

Mohammad Dadkhah An investigation of the Regular Past Tense Hall 5

Iman Moradi-manesh
phonological complexities in Iranian EFL learners
of low levels of proficiency.

Parisa Naseri Status of Critical Pedagogy in Iran: case of the

10: 25 – 10:50 Karimvand Hall 1
TEFL teachers

Maedeh Teaching TEFL courses online: Moving towards a Hall 2

change in Iranian classrooms in the 21st Century
Ghavamnia
 Zohreh Kasaian and The Impact of Bilingualism on the Perception of
Afshin Ghari Conversational Maxims: A Case of Iranian Hall 3
Bilingual and Monolingual Young Adult Learners
of English

Fateme An Investigation of Bold Vocabularies in Reading

Esmaily Passages of the Pre-University English Textbook: Hall 4
A Critical Discourse Analysis

Nazgol Azimi The Production of Speech Acts by Iranian EFL Students Hall 5

Dr. Seyyedeh Susan Assessing EFL learners’ Dimensions of

10:50 – 11:15 Marandi Hall 1
Vocabulary Knowledge
Forough Babamaleki

Mohammad Taghi The Effect of Different Types of Textual Gloss on

Farvardin Hall 2
EFL Students’ Incidental Vocabulary Learning
Mohammad Raouf
Moini and Reading Comprehension

Maryam Banisaeid The Relationship between Self-regulated Learning

Hall 3
Strategies and Strategy-based Vocabulary Acquisition of
Iranian EFL Learners at the Academic Level

Nematullah Shomoossi A Dialogic Constructivist Approach to Enhance Hall 4

the Audience Awareness in EFL Learners of
English

Saleh Delforouz Test Adaptation and Translation: Investigating Hall 5

the Adaptability of a Motivation Questionnaire

Maryam Pourjam Statement Verification Vs. Yes/no Question Hall 1

11:15– 11:40
answering

Dr. Mansoor Koosha The effect of different type of instruction and

Hall 2
Saeedeh Shafiee feedback on the development of pragmatic
Nahrkhalaji proficiency: The case of pragmatic markers
 Amir Farzad Ashouri The Effects of Ambiguity Tolerance and Risk
Zahra Fotovatnia Hall 3
Taking on Learners’ Translation Belief and
Translation Strategy use in EFL Learning

Mohammad Forouzani
Flow Theory and Language Teaching Hall 4

Mehdi Mahdavinia Portfolio Assessment: A Tool for Self-directory Hall 5

la'ya Nabatchi Ahmadi
Learning at Post Secondary Level

Sara Hashemi Shahraki The Roles of Depth and Breadth of Vocabulary

11:40– 12:05 Hall 1
Knowledge in Listening Comprehension Sub-skills

Abbass Eslamirasekh The Effect of Social Factors of Age, Gender and

Salva Shirinbakhsh Hall 2
Educational Level on a Regional Variability of Farsi: The
case of Isfahan dialect

Naeemeh Kharaghani The Effect of Portfolio Assessment on EFL

Hall 3
learners’ Performance and Attitude

Dr. Abbass Eslami On zerangi (Shrewdness) and orze (Capability) in

Rasekh Hall 4
Persian
Mohammad Ali
Ayatollahi

Saeed Rezaei Validating a test of Pragmatics: A case of Apology Hall 5

and Request in Iranian EFL Classrooms

12:05 – 14:00 Prayers and Lunch

14:10-14:55 KEYNOTE Dr. Manoochehr Tavangar Main Hall

SPEAKER
The Pedagogical Merits of Discourse Analysis
15:05 – 15:30 Maryam Esmaili The Effect of Explicit and Implicit Instruction Hall1
and Feedback on Pragmatic Competence
 Behzad Ghonsooly Validating Motivational Self-regulatory
Majid Elahi Hall 2
Strategies Questionnaire and Examining its
Relation to L2 Reading, L2 Writing, and Use of
Language Learning Strategies
Mohammad Sadegh Dominance of English: A Critical Discourse
Bagheri Hall 3
Analysis of Language Policy and Planning
Elham Mahjub

Mahmoud Samaie Coxhead’s AWL across ESP and Asian EFL

Khalil Tazik Hall 4
Journal Research Articles: A Corpus-Based
Lexical Study

Sepideh Rahimpour Contrastive analysis of English and Persian

Hall 5
written texts: code glosses in applied linguistics
research articles

15:30 – 15:55 Mohsen Rezazadeh

Hall 1
The Effects of Individual and Collaborative
Planned Conditions on Fluency, Complexity and
Accuracy in L2 Written Production
Dr. Seyyedeh Susan Web-Based Writing Lessons; How Technology
Marandi Hall 2
Enhances Coherence in EFL Learners' Essays
Fatemeh Nami

Fatemeh Moafian
Afsaneh Ghanizadeh Critical Thinking and Self-efficacy: Investigating
Hall 3
the relationship among EFL teachers

Fatemeh Takallou The Effect of Metacognitive Strategy Instruction on EFL

Learners’ Reading Comprehension Performance in Hall 4
Payame Noor University of Kermanshah

Zhaleh The Effect of Translation of Test Method Facets Hall 5

Abdollahi (input and response) on Reading Comprehension: A
Case of Iranian High and Low Intermediate EFL
Learners.
15:55 – 16:20 Zahra Esmaiilian The impact of PowerPoint presentation vs. Hall 1
traditional presentation on information retention
in the classroom
 Samira Hayati Lexical Inferencing Strategies Of Iranian EFL
Hall 2
Learners And Its Relationship To Their L2
Proficiency And Gender

Afshin Eshaghpour The Effect of Using Lexical Inferencing Hall 3

Dr. Houshang Yazdani
Strategies on Second Language Vocabulary
Learning

S. A. Razmjoo Communication Strategies Employed by Iranian EFL

Mohammad Mackie Hall 4
Learners of Different Proficiency Levels in the Iranian
Language Institutes

Elham Molaesmaeli Writing Ability Improvement through Hall 5

Collaborative E-mail Learning

16:20 – 16:45 Raziye Stance Markers in English and Persian

Fatemi Research Articles of Electrical Engineering: a Hall 1
Contrastive Rhetoric Study

Zeinab Mohamamdi Effects of Mother Tongue Use in Pre-Task Phase

on Iranian EFL Learners’ Fluency, Accuracy Hall 2
and Complexity

Absolreza Tahriri and An Examination of EFL Learners’

Hoda Divsar Hall 3
Strategy Use Across Various Intelligence
Types

Bahareh The Impact of Cognitive-Affective Reading-

Khazaeenezhad Hall 4
Based Courses on EFL Learners' Emotional
Intelligence: The Case of Reading Open-Ended
Stories
Sepideh Mirzaee Hall 5
Contrastive Rhetorical Study of Person Deixis of
English and Persian Novels as Non-Academic
Texts

16:45 – 17:10 Iman Alizadeh Recounting and Fine-Tuning Academic Word List for Hall 1
Four Academic Fields
 Hafezali Panahi Threats to Validity: Test Method Facets and construct-
Hall 2
irrelevant variances contributing to construct under-
representation on Graduate Record Exam (GRE)

Morteza Rostamian Exploring EFL Teachers' Perceptions, Attitudes Hall 3

and Self-esteem of Doing Task-Based Language
Teaching: The Case of Iranian Teachers

Najmeh Nasri The Effect of Task-based Instruction on the

Hall 4
Receptive and Oral Productive Acquisition of
English Vocabulary: A Case of Iranian
Elementary Students

Leila Bahrami The Influence of Item Dictation on the Hall 5

Development of Phonemic Awareness: The Case
of Iranian Beginner EFL Learners

17:10 – 17:35 Mohammad The Impact of Collaborative Reflective Teaching Hall 1

Aghajanzadeh
On Writing Performance In EAP With a Focus
On IELTS

Mahmood The Effect of Incidental Learning and Explicit

Cholmaghani
Instruction on Vocabulary Acquisition and Hall 2
Retention: A Case of Iranian EFL Learners

Marzieh Rafiee Lexical bundles in newspaper register: Examples Hall 3

from native and non-native journalistic usage of
bundles

Fateme Moslemi
Readers’ impression of metadiscourse markers
Hall 4
 Elkhas Vaysi Cross-Linguistic Study on Pragmatic Features in Non- Hall 5
Razieh Shayanpour
Lexical Utterances in English and Persian

17:35 – 18:00 Fatemeh Rahmani The Effects of Instruction Type on Vocabulary

Hall 1
Learning: A Psycholinguistics Study

Mohammad Aliakbari On the Relationship between Iranian Non-

Najva Qasemi Hall 2
academic EFL Learners’ Learning Style
Preferences (LSPs) and Their Gender,
Proficiency Level and Final Achievement Sores

Mahmood Dehqan Hall 3

Self-, Peer- and Teacher-Assessment in Second
Language Teaching

Dr. Abbas Eslami Investigating the Role of Gender in Argot

Rasekh Hall 4
Language Use: a Case of Iranian University
Momene Ghadiri
Students

Mehdi Fallahi Investigating the effect of receptive and productive tasks Hall 5
on collocation learning and retention
Mohammad Falhasiri
18:00 – 18:30 Closing Ceremony Main Hall

18:30 – 19:00 Dinner