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Direct linkReza Hemmati; Nourollah Zarrinabadi; Hadighe Ebrahimi – Learning Environments Research, 2024
The college classroom is the main setting of higher education institutions, wherein students get unique opportunities to learn and form new relationships and experiences. This study aimed to provide a qualitative description of female students' experiences of college classrooms. The participants were 28 undergraduate female students who were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Undergraduate Students, Public Colleges
Download full textReza Shahi; Hamdollah Ravand; Golam Reza Rohani – International Journal of Language Testing, 2025
The current paper intends to exploit the Many Facet Rasch Model to investigate and compare the impact of situations (items) and raters on test takers' performance on the Written Discourse Completion Test (WDCT) and Discourse Self-Assessment Tests (DSAT). In this study, the participants were 110 English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students at…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ali Akbar Boori; Mohammad Ghazanfari; Behzad Ghonsooly; Purya Baghaei – International Journal of Language Testing, 2024
The purpose of this study was to compare the functioning of five restrictive CDMs, including DINA, DINO, A-CDM, LLM, and RRUM, against the G-DINA model to identify the best-fitting CDM which can better explain the interaction underlying the attributes of the reading comprehension section of an Iranian high-stakes language proficiency test. To this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Reading Comprehension, Language Tests
Omid Mallahi – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
The present study explores the status of argumentative essay writing strategy use and identifies the problems a convenient sample of Iranian EFL learners face while writing argumentative essays in English. Adopting a complementary process-genre approach and a mixed-methods research design, the researcher designed a genre-specific argumentative…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Essays, Persuasive Discourse
Seyedhamed Sadoughvanini; Hamed Ghaemi – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
The ability of students to deal with common academic difficulties is referred to as academic buoyancy. It can also be described as the capacity of students over obstacles and difficulties that are typical of the everyday school experience. The purpose of this research was to examine the connections between the academic buoyancy of Iranian…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Mehri Izadi; Maliheh Izadi; Farrokhlagha Heidari – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
In today's environment of growing class sizes due to the prevalence of online and e-learning systems, providing one-to-one instruction and feedback has become a challenging task for teachers. Anyhow, the dialectical integration of instruction and assessment into a seamless and dynamic activity can provide a continuous flow of assessment…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
