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Roshandel, Javad; Ghonsooly, Behzad; Ghanizadeh, Afsaneh – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
The present study explored English as a foreign language (EFL) students' motivation and self-efficacy. This is accomplished by incorporating the ten subfactors of L2 motivational self-system namely; criterion measures, ideal L2 self, ought-to L2 self, family influence, instrumentality promotion, instrumentality prevention, attitudes towards…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Self Efficacy, English (Second Language), Student Motivation
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Zafarmand, Atefeh; Ghanizadeh, Afsaneh; Akbari, Omid – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This article sets out to examine the relationship between EFL learners' goal orientation, metacognitive awareness and self-efficacy in a single framework. One hundred fifteen EFL students from two universities of Mashhad, a city in north-eastern Iran took part in this study. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was utilized to examine the…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Goal Orientation, Metacognition, English (Second Language)
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Ghapanchi, Zargham; Taheryan, Atefeh – World Journal of Education, 2012
This study examined the influence of language knowledge, metacognitive knowledge and metacognitive strategy use on speaking and listening proficiency. Ninety six freshman and sophomore Iranian university students (male = 6, female = 90) were participated in the study. Two kinds of questionnaire and one language knowledge test were administered.…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Linguistic Competence, Listening, Speech Communication
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Rahimpour, Massoud; Zakeri, Elham – English Language Teaching, 2011
Recently task-based language teaching has attracted many researchers', testers' and syllabus designers' attention and consequently a lot of studies are carried out in this field. This study was conducted in the task-based realm too. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of teacher's presence on learners' performance in doing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning