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Fatemeh Samadi; Manoocher Jafarigohar; Masood Saeedi; Mansoor Ganji; Farzaneh Khodabandeh – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
The advent of innovative online tools has ushered in new possibilities for enhancing the quality of language learning. This study delved into the influence of the flipped classroom approach on augmenting the cognitive and meta-cognitive competence of EFL learners. Two distinct participant groups were enlisted for the study's sequential phases,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Flipped Classroom
Mohammad Hassanzadeh; Mostafa Ranjbar – Language Teaching Research, 2025
While research into various dimensions of language learning strategies has been thriving over the recent years, grammar learning strategies (GLS) have largely remained under-explored. The present mixed methods research aimed to explore GLS in the three stages of classroom grammar tasks, while striving to determine the sequence of GLS and their…
Descriptors: Grammar, Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Karim Sadeghi; Neda Bakhshi – International Journal of Language Testing, 2025
Assessing language skills in an integrative form has drawn the attention of assessment experts in recent years. While some research data exists on integrative listening/reading-to-write assessment, there is comparatively little research literature on listening-to-speak integrated assessment. Also, little attention has been devoted to the role of…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Computer Assisted Testing
Farrokh, Parisa; Sharifi, Fatemeh – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
The present investigation was an attempt to study the effect of using compensation and determination strategies on Iranian upper-intermediate EFL learners' vocabulary development. The question which the present study was trying to answer was: Do compensation and determination strategies have any statistically significant effects on Iranian upper-…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Foreign Countries
Taheri, Hamideh; Sadighi, Firooz; Bagheri, Mohammad Sadegh; Bavali, Mohammad – Cogent Education, 2019
The purpose of this study is threefold: firstly, to explore the relationship between EFL learners' cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence, and language learning achievement, secondly, to find out the relationship between EFL learners' language learning styles and strategies and their L2 achievement, and thirdly, to uncover the relationship…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Intelligence
Ansarin, Ali Akbar; Khatibi, Samira Paki – English Language Teaching, 2018
This study set out with the aim of assessing whether Multiple Intelligences profiles of Iranian students would exert any influence on their use of language learning strategies as important determining factors in the language learning. Additionally, we explored the role of gender and different proficiency levels on EFL learners' multiple…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Language Acquisition, Learning Strategies, Gender Differences
Ulrich, Theresa A.; Tyndorf, Darryl M., Jr. – Applied Language Learning, 2018
In an exploration of methods to advance language acquisition without the inconvenience of participating in an immersion option, the authors discovered research on Free Voluntary Reading (FVR). FVR has made a recent resurgence, especially in the context of language acquisition. Krashen (2004) proposes FVR as the answer to building language…
Descriptors: Recreational Reading, Second Language Learning, Achievement Gains, Learning Strategies
Ghanizadeh, Afsaneh; Amiri, Azin; Jahedizadeh, Safoura – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2020
This study elucidated how humanistic teaching as manifested in teachers' error correction influences EFL learners' engagement, motivation, and language achievement. the present study was carried out in a language Institute in Mashhad, Iran. The population comprised 42 advanced female learners. To investigate how error treatment will affect EFL…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods
Kamalizad, Jalal; Samuel, Moses – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2015
Responding to the controversies in the results of past studies regarding the impact of language proficiency on learners' use of language learning strategies, this article reports the effect of language proficiency on the strategy use of Iranian English learners across two different settings, namely ESL Malaysia, and EFL Iran. Some 157 Iranian…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Learning Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Afshar, Hassan Soodmand; Tofighi, Somayyeh; Hamazavi, Raouf – Issues in Educational Research, 2016
The idea that language learning is facilitated or inhibited by a multitude of factors has prompted scholars in the field to investigate variables considered to be crucial in the process of second or foreign language learning. This study investigated relationships between emotional intelligence, learning style, language learning strategy use, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Emotional Intelligence
Ostovar-Namaghi, Seyyed Ali; Ahmadabadi-Tak, Bahareh – English Language Teaching, 2017
Strategy-deficient language learners struggle to develop their language proficiency through limiting and inappropriate strategies. This study aims at exploring experienced teachers' perceptions of strategy deficiency syndrome among EFL learners. To this end, the perspectives of a purposive sample of experienced teachers teaching in private…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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
Zalzadeh Borazjani, Ashraf – Online Submission, 2017
The purpose of this study is to investigate how learner variables, including language proficiency, motivation, effort, and family background affect Iranian language learners' EFL vocabulary strategy use? Subjects in this study were 450 EFL students (N = 450) at Payam e Noor University, Borazjan, Iran. After a placement test, they were grouped into…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Foreign Countries, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language)
Sistani, Mahsa; Hashemian, Mahmood – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study, first, examined whether there was any relationship between Iranian L2 learners' vocabulary learning strategies (VLSs), on the one hand, and their multiple intelligences (MI) types, on the other hand. In so doing, it explored the extent to which MI would predict L2 learners' VLSs. To these ends, 40 L2 learners from Isfahan University of…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Vocabulary Development, Correlation, Questionnaires
Haghshenas, Mahsa Sadat Mousavi; Hashemian, Mahmood – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study examined the effect of etymological elaboration, pictorial elucidation, and integration of these 2 strategies on idiom learning by L2 learners. A total number of 80 homogeneous intermediate learners studying English at 3 language institutes in Isfahan, Iran, were selected. The intermediate participants were selected as the result of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Learning Strategies, Etymology