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Mohammad Naghavian – Modern Language Journal, 2024
Second language (L2) learners hold different learning beliefs that influence their interpretation of classroom experiences and their L2 learning process. Developing a thorough understanding of such beliefs is therefore imperative. This article reports the representations of Iranian English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners' beliefs about L2…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes
Esmaeel Abdollahzadeh; Mahdi Rajaeenia – TESL-EJ, 2024
Language learning beliefs are considered to be an important factor influencing student learning outcomes. This mixed-methods research investigated English language learning beliefs of Iranian English language learners. Data were collected from 226 junior and senior male and female high school students using the Beliefs about Language Learning…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, High School Students, Student Attitudes
Zarrinabadi, Nourollah; Rezazadeh, Mohsen; Chehrazi, Abdollah – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
This study sought to investigate the relationship between language mindsets and grammar learning strategies and grammatical performance among English as L2 and L3 learners. Moreover, this study examined fixed and growth language mindsets across gender and language groups. The sample included 320 (N[subscript L2] = 160, N[subscript L3] = 160)…
Descriptors: Grammar, Learning Strategies, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning
Tajeddin, Zia; Mostafaei Alaei, Mahnaz; Moladoust, Elahe – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Imagined communities of practice create spaces for language learners to participate in local and global interactions as individuals and as members of global communities. However, scant research has examined imagined communities of practice in the context of English as an international language (EIL). The present study adopted a mixed-methods…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Communities of Practice
Khadij Gharibi; Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
With a focus on an under-studied group of immigrants in the UK, this paper examines Iranian families' language ideologies and practices at home in relation to Persian acquisition and maintenance for their children. Working within a family language policy (FLP) framework, we draw on sociolinguistic data from semi-structured interviews with eighteen…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Language Usage, Family Relationship, Native Language
Elyas Barabadi; Gordon L. Flett; Paul L. Hewitt; Seyyed Ayatollah Razmjoo; Mohsen Rahmani Tabar; Fatemeh Chasetareh – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2024
The current study investigated the associations among trait perfectionism, worry about mistakes, mistake rumination, L2 anxiety, and willingness to communicate in adolescents. A key element was examining the psychometric properties of a new measure of worry about mistakes as well as the Mistake Rumination Scale and the short Child-Adolescent…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Anxiety, Foreign Countries
Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini; Mahtab Janfada; Leila Iranmanesh – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2025
Language tests, including international high-stakes English proficiency tests widely used around the world, are to be viewed as ideological constructs connected with power relations and center-periphery demarcations at different social levels. In this paper, we examine the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) as an instance of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Moharami, Mehdi; Keary, Anne; Kostogriz, Alex – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2023
Iranian authorities view English language learning as a disturbing influence on national identity. They are concerned about its impact on learners' identities. Despite the political concern, there is growing interest in learning English in Iranian private schools for personal and social development. This article reports on a study in which six…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Self Concept
Ziaabadi, Fariba; Karimi, Mohammad N.; Hashemi, Mohammad R. – TESL-EJ, 2023
Despite English teachers' acknowledgement of the plurality of English and the emergence of different varieties of the language, the actual manifestations of this plurality and the associated principles do not seem to be equally embraced in their classroom approach. Against this background, this study investigated Iranian English teachers'…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Behzadpoor, Seyyed-Foad; Mansouri, Behzad – TESL-EJ, 2023
Within the last two decades, theorizing and research on language teaching and teachers have witnessed a fundamental shift of attention and orientation towards socio-cognitive aspects of teaching. This epistemic shift has been paralleled by the global reach of the English language, inspiring scholars to call for a paradigm shift in Applied…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Variation
Bori, Pau; Canale, Germán – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2022
In the past decades, neoliberalism has permeated (foreign) language education, as has been discussed by critical research in the fields of: curriculum theory, applied linguistics, discourse analysis, language policy, language assessment, to name a few. Despite the fact that research on foreign language education and neoliberalism is certainly…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Change
Tamleh, Hadis; Rezaei, Saeed; Boivin, Nettie – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2022
Minority language studies have received increasing attention over the last decade in Iran. Drawing on Spolsky's (Spolsky, Bernard. 2004. "Language policy." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) language policy theoretical framework, this inquiry reports on the language ideologies, practices, and management efforts of an under-explored…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Language Maintenance, Indo European Languages, Bilingualism
Mowlaei Aghblagh, Mahdi; Alempour Rajabi, Saba – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
This study examines identity construction and conflict in the case of a woman whose parents replaced the local language with the official language at the home in the city of Tabriz in northwestern Iran, where the local language, Azerbaijani, is overshadowed by Persian as the official language of the state. In such contexts, Shifting away from the…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Language Usage, Ethnography, Socialization
Language Choice and Identity Construction of Azerbaijani Bilinguals in Family and Friendship Domains
Taqavi, Mahtab; Rezaei, Amir – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This study investigates Azerbaijani bilinguals' language choice and identity construction processes in family and friendship domains. Individual interviews were conducted with 19 (11 male, 8 female) participants. The emerged themes were classified under three categories, i.e. age, gender and language ideologies. The findings revealed that language…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Self Concept, Family Relationship, Friendship
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