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Babaii, Esmat – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2023
Intercultural communicative competence has been offered as an open-minded replacement for ego-centric biases stemming from dogmatic national prejudice and its associated self-aggrandisement. While being a commendable proposal, its implementation in foreign language education has not been a widespread success story. Recent attempts to theorise…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Planning
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Bakhtiar Naghdipour – TESOL Journal, 2025
Developing writing skills in a foreign language is a highly value-laden practice that is susceptible to the influence of the dominant ideological narratives of a given context. This influence is typically echoed in policies and practices informing the role, scope, and place of writing in curriculum and pedagogy. Using autoethnographic reflections,…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Ethnography, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Rebecca L. Oxford; Peter Gu; Pamela Gunning; Teresa Hernández-González – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
This article describes a new questionnaire, the "Diagnostic Inventory for Self-Regulated Language Learning" (DISLL), for assessing self-regulated learning strategies of students of English as an additional language. We discuss self-regulated learning models, evaluate existing questionnaires for assessing language learners' self-regulated…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Metacognition
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Muhammed Parviz; Masoud Azizi – Discover Education, 2025
This article offers a critical review of the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology English Proficiency Test (MSRT), a high-stakes exam required for postgraduate graduation, scholarships, and certain employment positions in Iran. Despite its widespread use, the design and implementation of the MSRT raise concerns about its validity and…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Ali Khodi; Logendra Stanley Ponniah; Amir Hossein Farrokhi; Fateme Sadeghi – Language Testing in Asia, 2024
The current article evaluates a national English language proficiency test known as the "MSRT test" which is used to determine the eligibility of candidates for admission to and completion of higher education programs in Iran. Students in all majors take this standardized, high-stake criterion-referenced test to determine if they have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Tests, Reading Tests, Language Proficiency
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Tohidian, Iman; Khorsandi Taskoh, Ali; Abbaspour, Abbas – ECNU Review of Education, 2023
One of the main shortcomings of the Iranian educational system is its focus on training students to succeed in different testing/assessment practices. In this regard, primary emphasis is still placed on memorization rather than learning dialogue, collaboration, tolerance, and life expectation for today's globalized communities. Few voices from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
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Doecke, Brenton; Mirhosseini, Seyyed-Abdolhamid – English in Education, 2023
This essay emerges from an ongoing conversation between us while collaborating on various projects that have explored the role that English plays in people's lives. One of us is an English teacher educator from Australia, the other an EFL educator from Iran now working in Hong Kong. Our conversation prompted us to reflect on English as a medium of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Shakhsi Dastgahian, Elahe; Turner, Marianne; Scull, Janet – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2020
Despite the recent emphasis on oral English language proficiency in the Iranian education system, the teaching of oral communication remains a challenge for secondary school English language teachers. In this article, we suggest that this, in part, relates to the continued emphasis on literacy practices. The article explores the approach taken by…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Literacy, Task Analysis, Teaching Methods
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Janfada, Mahtab – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2023
This essay presents a decade-long reflective account of resisting (in) and appropriating English that I have experienced as a young, female academic from the Middle East who has been engaged in teaching and researching Academic English pedagogy transnationally. Informed by Bakhtin's philosophy of dialogue and his notions of insided-ness,…
Descriptors: Literacy, English for Academic Purposes, Women Faculty, Second Language Learning
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Gilakjani, Abbas Pourhosein; Sabouri, Narjes Banou – English Language Teaching, 2016
Listening is one of the most important skills in English language learning. When students listen to English language, they face a lot of listening difficulties. Students have critical difficulties in listening comprehension because universities and schools pay more attention to writing, reading, and vocabulary. Listening is not an important part…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Listening Skills, English (Second Language), Listening Comprehension
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Ulrich, Theresa A.; Tyndorf, Darryl M., Jr. – Applied Language Learning, 2018
In an exploration of methods to advance language acquisition without the inconvenience of participating in an immersion option, the authors discovered research on Free Voluntary Reading (FVR). FVR has made a recent resurgence, especially in the context of language acquisition. Krashen (2004) proposes FVR as the answer to building language…
Descriptors: Recreational Reading, Second Language Learning, Achievement Gains, Learning Strategies
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Ali, Sheeraz; Kazemian, Bahram; Mahar, Israr Hussain – Dinamika Ilmu, 2015
English has been designated as a source of intercultural communication among the people from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. A range of linguistic and cultural theories contribute meaningful insights on the development of competence in intercultural communication. The speculations suggest the use of communicative strategies focusing…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Intercultural Communication
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Safari, Parvin; Rashidi, Nasser – Journal of Social Science Education, 2015
Critical pedagogy (CP) with the eventual aim of creating changes in society towards the socially just world rests upon the premise that language learning is understood as a sociopolitical event. Schools and classrooms are not merely seen as the neutral and apolitical sites or oxymoron of transmitting taken-for-granted knowledge and common sense to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Bijami, Maryam; Kashef, Seyyed Hosein; Khaksari, Mahta – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2013
In view of the fact that learner-centered instruction is the standpoint in education in new trends, teachers must be aware of students' characteristics in order to tailor their teaching to needs of learners. One of the areas which is closely related to characteristics and performance of language learners is the role of gender on language learning…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Writing (Composition), Writing Achievement, English (Second Language)
Khalili, Masoud; Jodai, Hojat – Online Submission, 2012
This paper intends to evaluate the WorldView series textbooks of English learning, which are being taught at an Iranian military university foreign language center. No textbook evaluation had been conducted by the university administration prior to the introduction of the textbooks to the language program. Theorists in the field of ELT textbook…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Military Schools, Higher Education, Textbooks
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