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Karimi, Mehrnoosh; Nikbakht, Elham – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between three teacher-related variables, namely, teaching efficacy, institutional identity and motivational strategy use, with students' L2 achievement. The study further intended to pinpoint gender differences in each of the aforementioned teacher-related variables. To this end, 120 (60…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Institutional Characteristics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ajideh, Parviz; Yaghoubi-Notash, Massoud; Khalili, Abdolreza – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
The present study investigated the contribution of the EFL students' learning strategies to the explanation of the variance in their results on language tests. More specifically, it examined the role of these strategies as bias factors in the results of English cloze tests. Based on this aim, first, 158 intermediate EFL learners were selected from…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Tests, Cloze Procedure, Foreign Countries
Fatemi, Mohammad Ali; Alishahi, Maral; Khorasani, Maryam Noori; Seifi, Monir – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Self-regulated EFL students can comprehend better what they listen. The present study sought to investigate the relationship between EFL learners' listening comprehension and their self-regulation. To achieve the goals of this study, 103 intermediate EFL learners were selected in Torbat-e- Heydarieh, Iran. Two instruments were employed and the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Bakhshalinezhad, Ladan; Nikou, Farahnaz Reymani; Bonyadi, Alireza – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This study explored the reading strategies used by advanced and intermediate Persian EFL learners in both English and Persian reading comprehension texts. Based on the aims of the study reading comprehension texts were administered to the learners and their reading strategies in both English and Persian reading comprehension texts were examined…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Protocol Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Indo European Languages
Relationship between EFL Learners' Autonomy and Speaking Strategies They Use in Conversation Classes
Salehi, Hadi; Ebrahimi, Marziyeh; Sattar, Susan; Shojaee, Mohammad – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The present study was conducted at Parsayan Language Institute in Isfahan, Iran. The students in pre-intermediate and intermediate classes were examined to investigate the relationship between degrees of learner autonomy, use of strategies for coping with speaking problems and the learners' success in their speaking classes. To determine the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Personal Autonomy
Mostafavi, Fatemeh; Vahdany, Fereidoon – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The current study aimed at investigating the possible effects of explicit teaching of affective strategies on Iranian EFL learners' oral language proficiency and the extent of their anxiety in EFL classroom. First, PET test was administered to a total number of 120 female third grade high school EFL students. Then, 60 participants whose score fell…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Nahavandi, Naemeh; Mukundan, Jayakaran – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
The present study aimed at understanding the language learning strategy use of Iranian EFL learners' about learning a foreign language. The main purpose of the study was to understand if there was any relationship between proficiency level, gender and extra education in language institutes and strategy use. To achieve this end, 369 engineering…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Engineering Education