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پیاپی 72 (بهار 1403)

The purpose of this research was to diagnose and model the teaching problems of English language teachers in junior and senior high schools in Jahrom city. For this purpose, a teacher training course (TTC) was held for 12 sessions for about 35 English language teachers, to improve the quality of English language education, and also provide them with opportunities to share their experiences regarding teaching and learning English and exchange opinions about problems of teaching this language. After completing the teacher training course, 10 English language classes were observed, and short interviews were conducted with the teachers. After collecting and analyzing the data, using the qualitative coding method of Corbin and Strauss (2008), a model of English language teaching problems was presented. In this model, the problems of teaching and learning English in Jahrom schools were divided into two main groups: individual problems (related to students and teachers) and environmental problems. Also, the bar graph of the frequency of teachers' reference to each type of problem showed that among individual problems, those related to students' knowledge level had the highest frequency. Also among environmental problems, the highest frequency belonged to the problems related to the educational system.

The present research aimed to achieve the appropriate age range for starting language learning by synthesizing the research conducted between 1961 and 2023, considering the factor of cognitive development. The present study followed a synthetic research approach. After two rounds of screening, 39 studies between 1961 and 2023 entered the analysis step and the data were analyzed. The data were combined according to the purpose of the coding. The Guba and Lincoln’s indexes which include credibility, transferability, and dependabilty were used to validate the data. 51 open codes, 9 axial codes, and 3 selective codes were obtained. The selection codes were "the optimal age to start foreign language learning", "relationship between age and accent ", and "necessary conditions for children's education”.  The majority of researchers agreed on the age range of 6-10 years. The beginning of language learners in the mentioned age range requires requirements to significantly change the success rate of language learning in formal education. The results help the policymakers to achieve the goals of the National Curriculum.

One of the deficiencies in the field of Persian language teaching and research is the absence of knowledge about the most appropriate curricula for creating educational resources. This study aimed to identify effective syllabi for teaching Persian to non-native speakers for general purposes. A questionnaire consisting of 11 items was used to gather data, and 43 teachers from various Persian language teaching centers in universities across the country participated in the field study. The results indicated that 9 out of 11 syllabi were favorable and effective for syllabus design in developing Persian language teaching resources and materials for non-Persian speakers. The "mixed language skills syllabus," "task-based syllabus," and "functional-notional syllabus" were ranked as the top three priorities in terms of significance and efficiency in syllabus design as an essential part of developing Persian language teaching materials for non-Persian speakers for general purposes. Additionally, "competence-based," "content-based," and "text-based" syllabi were ranked 9th to 11th.

This research was carried out with the purpose of evaluating the curriculum of the Islamic education of the elementary school based on the components of God's concept. The research approach was mixed and its strategy was sequential exploration. The corpus included all the books of Heaven's Gifts (in Persian called Hedyehaye Aseman) of the elementary period that published in 2022. Due to the nature and objectives of the research, the sample was equal to the corpus and the entire corpus had been studied. In the first part of the research, the textbooks were analyzed as study documents through coding and categorization and thematic formation. In the second step, first, the frequency of the categories identified in the previous step was determined, and then to determine the importance coefficient of these categories, the quantitative data were analyzed with Shannon's entropy method. The findings showed that the components related to the concept of God in the textbooks of the Islamic education are kind, creator, supreme, capable, all-knowing, sufficient, just, unique, forgiver, acceptor of repentance, protector, commanding, manager and conductor. Also, the data analysis showed that the component "kind" with a coefficient of importance of 0.095 has the highest amount of attention, and the components of "protector" with a coefficient of importance of 0.071 and "Acceptor of repentance" with a coefficient of "0" have the least attention.

The present study was conducted with the aim of identifying the dimensions and components of digital competence of teachers. The data was collected through qualitative method of systematic review. The selection of articles was done by keywords based on the opinion of experts and the structure of Prisma, and 38 documents in the form of foreign articles were included in the analysis. The selected corpus was analyzed using thematic analysis and MAXQDA2020 software. The validity of the findings was obtained based on the opinions of the research team, and the reliability of the tool was checked through the reliability index of the evaluators, which showed Kappa coefficient of 0.84. The findings indicated that the digital competence of teachers included 7 dimensions and 27 components. The dimensions included teaching and learning, professional and career development, leadership and interaction, digital thinking, enhancing the learner's digital skills, assessment and individual characteristics. According to the results, it is suggested that technology-based professional training, interactive teaching in virtual environments, and the combination of teachers' digital competencies with extracted components should be given serious attention.

The present study aimed to investigate The effect of quantum training method on self-efficacy, communication skills and academic achievement motivation among male first-grade students of senior high school. The research method was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest and control group. The statistical population included all first-grade male senior high school students in Nurabad-Lorestan (1650 students), a total of 30 students were selected through simple sampling method and randomly divided into experimental group (15 students) and control group (15 students). The data were collected using Sherer's et al General Self-efficacy Scale (1982); Queendom's Communication Skills Questionnaire (2004) and Hermans's achievement Motivation Questionnaire (1970). The reliability coefficients confirmed by Cronbach's alpha method were 0.83, 0.89 and 0.82, respectively. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation) and ANCOVA. Quantum Learning Protocol training program consisted of a 12-session program. The results showed that using the Quantum training method is effective in increasing self-efficacy and academic achievement motivation and also improving communication skills among students. These findings have important implications for educational settings, and could help improve the learning process, educational behaviors,and personality of students by integrating quantum education into the curriculum.

This article examined the effect of picture on the vocabulary developement in the first-grade elementary students in the non-profit schools in Kerman.Within the framework of Pavio's dual coding theory (1986) and the descriptive statistics methods, their vocabulary developement was compared. Two schools were selected by cluster sampling and then sixty selected students were given a vocabulary pre test and post test. After choosing two story books and reading them for three groups in different conditions and giving test, the results showed that the vocabulary developement in the first group (seeing picture with emphasizing on it) compared to the second group (seeing picture during narration) and the third group (control group (not seeing picture)) in school A (4/03) with the significant level (0.002) and in school B (2.52) with the significant level (0.02) is higher and seeing the pictures with emphasising has significant effectiveness in expanding the vocabulary of new students.

The present study was conducted to analyze the experiences of health educators from sex education in schools, using a qualitative research approach and data-based theory method (systematic approach). The participants were 30 health educators from the lower secondary schools in Isfahan, Iran. The purposeful-theoretical sampling method and data collection technique was semi-structured in-depth interview. Data analysis was done using three open, central and selective coding methods. The findings of the research showed that the teachers' experiences of sex education in schools around many main categories and the form of components of the paradigm model, including causal conditions (family ecosystem, social ecosystem and educational ecosystem), intervening conditions (virtualization of sexual understanding and discourse limitations), background conditions (educational unreality and variability of resources), strategies (reconstruction of the family system, reconstruction of the educational system, institutional interactionism and cultural alignment) and consequences (individual and social consequences) and a core or core category under the title of inclusive sex education are tied.

Learning in collaboration with the peers is one if the methods of improving learners' participation in teaching process and promoting the quality of teaching and learning. The present study aimed to investigate the areas of interest for researchers in this field and to identify the prevailing trends in the field of peer tutoring. In order to achieve the goal, in this study, we have analyzed the bibliographic analysis of the articles published in 1971-2022 in the web of science. By searching the keywords in the web of science, 1151 articles were extracted whose titles included peer tutoring. Then, the articled presented countries, individuals and journals with the highest number of scientific productions in this field of all these articles. It is found that 44.9 percent have been published in the USA and the medical teacher was the journal with the highest number of articles. In the next step by using VOSviewer, co-authorship, co-occurrence and co-citation networks of keywords were visualized. The keywords can be classified into five clusters: "medical education", "school research", "educational levels", "learning and peer communities", and "peer assessment and feedback".

The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of physical education curriculum with an integrated approach on facilitating students' learning. The method of this research was descriptive-survey. The studied population in this research included all students of the second year of elementary school in Tehran. The sample size was selected using Cochran's formula, 300 people were selected by multi-stage sampling method, McDermott's (1999) learning questionnaire was used to collect data. The results of this research showed that the physical education curriculum with an integrated approach has a significant effect on facilitating students' learning (p<0.05). Based on the findings of the research, it can be concluded that the physical education curriculum with an integrated approach can increase the amount of students' learning; therefore, by integrating the physical education curriculum in the second level of elementary school, it is possible to facilitate the students' learning.