تأثیر عوامل روانی اجتماعی بر لحن زبان آموزان بزرگسال ایرانی زبان انگلیسی

Subject Areas : Applied Linguistics

Akram Alaedini ¹ (Department of English, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran)
Azizeh Chalak ² (Department of English, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch Islamic Azad University Isfahan, Iran)

Received: 2022-04-30 Accepted : 2022-08-26 Published : 2022-12-01

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Abstract :

لحن یک کارکرد زبانی را انجام می دهد و نقش مهمی در تنظیم گفتمان دارد. این یک مهارت ضروری است که فراگیران باید آن را کسب کنند، عمدتاً به این دلیل که می تواند بر درک و دقت تأثیر بگذارد. مانند دیگر ویژگی های گفتار، لحن ممکن است حاوی اطلاعاتی در مورد ویژگی های گوینده باشد. بنابراین، این مطالعه بررسی کرد که آیا آهنگ صدا تحت تأثیر سن، جنسیت و خودمختاری قرار می گیرد یا خیر. بر اساس هدف پژوهش، پارادایم از نوع کمی و طرح از نوع علی-مقایسه ای (پس از واقع) بود. شصت و دو زبان آموز زبان انگلیسی متوسطه به راحتی از موسسات زبان خصوصی در اصفهان، ایران انتخاب شدند. داده ها با استفاده از مقیاس خودگردانی یادگیری و آزمون شفاهی معلم ساخته شده جمع آوری شد. برای اندازه‌گیری تأثیر جنسیت، سن، خودمختاری و تأثیر متقابل آن‌ها بر آهنگ‌سازی از آنالیز واریانس استفاده شد. تجزیه و تحلیل داده ها نشان داد که نمرات آهنگ صدا در گروه سنی بالاتر و دختران بالاتر بود. پسران در گروه سنی جوان‌تر مقادیر متوسط ​​کمتری را برای آهنگ‌سازی نشان دادند. بعلاوه، افرادی که خودمختارتر بودند، از نظر آهنگسازی نمرات بالاتری کسب کردند. بنابراین می توان نتیجه گرفت که سن، جنسیت و خودمختاری بر لحن صدا تأثیر می گذارد. از یافته های این پژوهش می توان در تدوین برنامه های درسی زبان انگلیسی و تعیین اهداف گفتار درمانی استفاده کرد.  

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