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Dandarova-Robert, Zhargalma; Cocco, Christelle; Astaneh, Zahra; Brandt, Pierre-Yves – Creativity Research Journal, 2023
Earlier studies have concluded that the religious sphere is less open to creativity than are other areas of human activities. Also, it has been suggested that artistic freedom and creative expression are unwelcome in the domain of religious iconography. In the present study, we address this subject with regard to children's artistic expression of…
Descriptors: Imagination, Religious Factors, Individual Differences, Religion
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Fatemeh Monazzah; Mostafa Morady Moghaddam; Seyyed Ali Ostovar-Namaghi – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
This study investigates persuasive strategies used in the writings of Iranian university students in the field of teaching English as foreign language (TEFL). The study utilized the 7 principles of persuasive strategies presented by Cialdini (The psychology of persuasion, Quill William Morrow, New York 1984; Pre-suasion: A revolutionary way to…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), College Students, Foreign Countries
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Salehi, Mohammad; Gholampour, Samaneh – MEXTESOL Journal, 2022
While there is a burgeoning of short-term research in self, peer, and teacher assessment, there is a paucity of longitudinal studies in this kind of assessment. Furthermore, oral assessment in English as a foreign language (EFL) context is relatively underexplored. The current study was designed to investigate the reliability and validity in 30…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Peer Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Public Speaking
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Ghayebi, Kobra; Farrokh, Parisa – HOW, 2020
The present study intended to investigate the possible effects of speech acts strategies on Iranian beginner and intermediate EFL learners' speaking ability. The first step in conducting this research was the administration of QPT [Quick Placement Test] as the homogenizing tool. It was administered to 180 beginners and intermediate EFL learners.…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Gender Differences
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Naji Meidani, Elham; Pishghadam, Reza; Ghonsooly, Behzad; Hosseini Fatemi, Azar – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
The purpose of this study was to design and validate a scale to measure language teachers' temporal intelligence and to explore its role in teacher burnout. To this aim, 210 English as Foreign Language (EFL) teachers, teaching at different language institutes were asked to complete two questionnaires: the newly-designed language teachers' temporal…
Descriptors: Teacher Burnout, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Intelligence
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Alavinia, Parviz; Sameei, Abdolraoof – English Language Teaching, 2012
The present study was implemented to investigate the possible relationship between introversion/extroversion and the listening ability of intermediate Iranian EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners by taking into account their gender, age, and grades of study. A total of 120 Intermediate learners (62 males and 58 females) studying at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction