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Mohamed Reza Farangi; Naser Rashidi; Abolfazl Sanjarani – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
This study investigated EFL classroom talk using Halliday and Matthiessen's (2013) meta-functions framework. Four female participants, including two experienced and two inexperienced teachers, taught similar grammar subjects to their intact classes. Classes were video-recorded and transcribed by the researchers. The meta-functions included topical…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Hassanzadeh-Taleshi, Mobin; Yaqubi, Baqer; Bozorgian, Hossein – Language Learning Journal, 2023
This study aimed to examine the effects of combining task repetition with immediate post-task transcribing (TRIPT) on L2 learners' immediate and delayed oral repetitions of the same task in terms of complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF). For this purpose, 38 intermediate Iranian learners were randomly assigned to two groups: TRIPT and task…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Task Analysis, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
Pourhaji, Mostafa; Sadeghi, Michael; Rezvani, Foruq – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2023
Although studying the actual use of L2 materials has gained momentum over the past few years, little is known about its synergy with teachers' beliefs. This study addressed this gap by exploring teachers' stated and enacted beliefs about (effective) materials use in L2 classroom discourse. To this effect, naturally-occurring interactions within 10…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Instructional Materials, Correlation
Soheil Kargar Dahr; Baqer Yaqubi; Sajjad Pouromid; Mahmood Dehqan – Classroom Discourse, 2024
While existing research into L2 classroom discourse has highlighted how knowledge and knowledge positions are negotiated, no attention seems to have been paid to what might be called "conceptual epistemic domains." Drawing on 22 hours of video-recorded data from Iranian EFL classrooms, our conversation analytic study illustrates how…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Toluei, Bahareh; Tahririan, Mohammad Hassan – Language Learning Journal, 2023
Anticipatory completions can be a potential place in which the second speaker expresses disagreement with the first speaker. 'Doing disagreement' is a significant feature of group work interaction, and resolving such disagreements can pose an interactional challenge for students in classroom contexts (Sharma 2012). Examining disagreement episodes…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ebrahimi, Hourieh; Xodabande, Ismail – MEXTESOL Journal, 2023
Discourse markers (DMs) as linguistic devices have a significant role in the coherence of conversation--a speakers' fluency. With the growing use of English worldwide, it is of great importance to focus on DMs as an essential part of communication which provides discourse coherence. This study was conducted to develop a description of spoken…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Morady Moghaddam, Mostafa – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
This study explores discourse markers (DMs) as they occur with compliment responses (CRs) in classroom interactions among Iranian learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). Using the tenets of conversation analysis, this paper draws on data from teacher-student interactions in several private language institutes in Iran. After audiorecording…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship
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
Rasti, Alireza – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2023
Due to their mostly normative and legitimatory nature, public policies at large and education policies in particular are liable to frame perceived problems in the social domain as seen through the policy-making elite's perspective and seek to advance solutions to them. On the surface, the staged process of policy design, implementation, and…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Language of Instruction, Policy Formation, Discourse Analysis
Juyoung Song; Hassan Nejadghanbar – TESOL Journal, 2024
This study investigates the impact of social media discourses, espoused by neoliberal and consumerist ideologies, on a language teacher educator's (LTE) identity negotiation. Through a collaborative case study, it examines Hassan's (the second author) experiences with social media in the Iranian English language teaching (ELT) context over three…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Discourse Analysis, Social Media, Language Teachers
Zabihi, Reza – Language Learning Journal, 2022
The study reported in this article examined the impact of task type on the ways in which learners resolve grammatical language-related episodes (LREs) and whether the level of engagement affects subsequent language development. Data were collected over a six-week period. Thirty-two Iranian second language (L2) learners were paired up to complete a…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grammar
Zare, Javad; Karimpour, Sedigheh; Aqajani Delavar, Khadijeh – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
The purpose of the present study was to investigate if following data-driven learning (DDL) to raise the learners' awareness of discourse organizers through concordancing improves their comprehension of English academic lectures. To address this issue, the current study adopted a quasi-experimental (comparison group, pretest-posttest) design. 96…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Computational Linguistics, English for Academic Purposes
Morady Moghaddam, Mostafa; Esmaeilpour, Faeze – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
In line with the concept of mobile learning in English Language Teaching (ELT), the aim of this research is to explore how Iranian ELT practitioners take advantage of social media to propose supportive and impactful language learning programs by adhering to persuasive linguistic devices. The research design is nonexperimental and explorative.…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Advertising
Noori, Mahdieh – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2022
Shifting focus of asocial language tests toward social considerations recalls their ideological basis (Mirhosseini, De Costa, 2020). The recurrent exposure to and involvement in discursive constructions of high stakes' contents, may bring along certain sociocultural conceptualizations and values by test audiences (van Dijk, 1998). Thus, unless a…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Test Content
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