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Amir Mahshanian; Mohammadtaghi Shahnazari; Ahmad Moinzadeh – TESL-EJ, 2025
This study investigates the relationships among working memory (WM), syntactic parsing ability (SP), and L2 reading performance across varying proficiency levels. A cohort of 120 L1-Persian EFL learners was categorized into beginner, intermediate, and advanced proficiency groups based on their IELTS scores. Participants completed a reading span…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Achievement
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Mohammadi, Mojtaba; Zarrabi, Maryam; Kamali, Jaber – International Journal of Language Testing, 2023
With the incremental integration of technology in writing assessment, technology-generated feedback has found its way to take further steps toward replacing human corrective feedback and rating. Yet, further investigation is deemed necessary regarding its potential use either as a supplement to or replacement for human feedback. This study aims to…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Writing Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Computer Assisted Testing
Marashi, Syed Mojtaba – Online Submission, 2020
The notion of "textuality" encouraged Halliday and Hasan in 1976 to present their model of discourse analysis through raising questions about whether "cohesion" was a semantic concept or a structural relation, whether a text was a structural unit or not or even if there were semantic or structural relationships within a text.…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Tests
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Dashti, Laleh; Razmjoo, Seyyed Ayatollah – Cogent Education, 2020
The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to explore Iranian IELTS candidates' strengths and weaknesses in IELTS Speaking Test in terms of IELTS's four speaking assessment criteria, namely Fluency and Coherence (FlC), Lexical Resource (LR), Grammar Range and Accuracy (GRA), and Pronunciation (Pro). It also aimed to examine the discourse features…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Tests, Speech Communication
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Nematizadeh, Shahin – Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2021
Willingness to communicate (WTC) has recently been researched as a dynamic variable, with some investigations viewing it as a complex dynamic system (CDS). One important property associated with CDS is the notion of attractor states, which are characterized by stable patterns of behavior. The present study employed an idiodynamic method to monitor…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Fluency, Task Analysis
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Saeli, Hooman; Cheng, An – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2019
This project firstly explored Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) students' perceptions about written corrective feedback (WCF)-related practices and preferences. Secondly, the student participants' first language (L1; e.g., Farsi) learner identities were operationalized, especially focusing on the skill of writing, WCF, and…
Descriptors: Grammar, Error Correction, Feedback (Response), English (Second Language)
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Bozorgian, Hossein – International Journal of Listening, 2014
This study investigated the impact of metacognitive instruction on the listening skill, and metacognitive knowledge of a group of male students (N = 30) who were learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Iran. The study participants spoke Persian as a first language and were high-intermediate EFL learners. The participants received a guided…
Descriptors: Role, Metacognition, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning