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Hiwa Weisi; Maryam Zandi – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2024
This study explores the verbal engagement strategies that EFL instructors adopt when teaching English over Instagram. These instructors create videos where they teach English and share them on Instagram. Twenty-five highly engaging English teaching videos on Instagram were used as the data of this study. To discover the engagement strategies that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, Language Teachers
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Amin Shahini – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2025
In recent years, Social Networking Sites (SNSs) have witnessed a substantial surge in global user adoption. Apart from their primary intended functionalities, these platforms have been increasingly utilized for language learning purposes. However, the extent to which they cater to the needs of language learners remains a longstanding question. The…
Descriptors: Social Media, Student Attitudes, Social Networks, English (Second Language)
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Tadayonifar, Mojtaba; Valizadeh, Mohammadreza; Entezari, Mahnaz; Bahraman, Mosfata – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2021
The current study explores the short- and long-term impacts of explicit reading strategy instruction for improving reading comprehension of students with different learning styles. Sixty Iranian EFL learners took part in this study. They took the Cambridge ECCE reading test as the pre-test and were divided into five groups according to learner…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Cognitive Style
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Estaji, Masoomeh; Mirzaii, Mostafa – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2018
Despite widespread agreement among ELT researchers that vocabulary lies at the heart of communicative competence, currently no consensus exists as to how learning of previously presented lexical items can be guaranteed. Given the inconclusiveness of findings, the present study attempted to delve into the differences in the learning of target…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
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Tadayonifar, Mojtaba; Entezari, Mahnaz; Bahraman, Mostafa – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
The efficacy of Corrective Feedback (CF) is contingent on various factors; conflicting results have been obtained regarding the roles of individual differences and the linguistic focus of CF. The current study investigated the relationship between the linguistic focus of recasts (the most common CF type) and noticing. It further explored the…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)