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Rebecca L. Oxford; Peter Gu; Pamela Gunning; Teresa Hernández-González – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
This article describes a new questionnaire, the "Diagnostic Inventory for Self-Regulated Language Learning" (DISLL), for assessing self-regulated learning strategies of students of English as an additional language. We discuss self-regulated learning models, evaluate existing questionnaires for assessing language learners' self-regulated…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Metacognition
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
EFL Listening Log: A Conceptual Replication of Kemp's (2010) Study on Motivating Autonomous Learning
Hossein Bozorgian; Meysam Muhammadpour; Raheleh Qara – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2024
We conceptually replicated Kemp (2010), who investigated the effect of keeping a listening log, a journal or learner diary, on ESL students' motivation toward autonomous learning. Her research suggested that keeping a listening log can aid ESL listeners to self-monitor their performance and reflect on their listening process independently.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Listening Comprehension
Aghajanzadeh Kiasi, Ghasem; Pourhosein Gilakjani, Abbas – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2023
This research investigated the effect of three definitional, sentential, and textual vocabulary learning strategies on Iranian intermediate EFL learners' vocabulary learning and retention. Based on Oxford Solutions Placement Test, of 94 total population, 66 Iranian EFL learners were selected as homogeneous participants at the intermediate level…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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
Tajeddin, Zia; Bagherkazemi, Marzieh – TESL-EJ, 2021
Research into second language (L2) pragmatics has addressed a number of learner variables likely to implicate in speech act knowledge. Subscribing to the same line of research, the present study addressed the development and validation of a pragmatic learning strategy inventory (PRALSI), and the relationship between English as a foreign language…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Fathi, Jalil; Derakhshan, Ali; Torabi, Saeede – SAGE Open, 2020
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of listening strategy instruction on second language (L2) listening comprehension ability, listening anxiety, and listening self-efficacy of Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. To this end, a sample of 52 English major learners of two intact classes from a university…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Effectiveness, Listening Skills, Second Language Instruction
Dehghayedi, Mehdi; Bagheri, Mohamad S. – International Journal of Language Education, 2019
The main objective behind this study was to investigate the association between EFL teachers' reflective behavior and their language learning and teaching beliefs. Accordingly, two respective questionnaires were given to 130 male and female EFL teachers who were conveniently sampled, and the elicited data were analyzed via correlational and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Reflective Teaching
Razmi, Mohammad Hasan; Jabbari, Ali Akbar; Fazilatfar, Ali Mohammad – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2020
The present investigation examined the effect of perfectionism on metacognitive listening strategy (MLS) use through the components of self-efficacy (initiative, effort, and persistence) among a sample of 117 Iranian English as a Foreign Language university students. Cluster analysis was utilized to identify the perfectionistic clusters. The…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Metacognition, Self Efficacy, Correlation
Boroumand, Mohsen; Mardani, Mahdi; Khakzad Esfahlan, Farzaneh – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2021
One of the most important communicative skills is listening and, at the same time, the Achilles' heel of many L2 learners as it entails multi-level cognitive processes (Lynch, 2002). Besides, as various studies show, self-efficacy measures are closely tied to the effective use of learning strategies. Considering the key role that concept mapping,…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Concept Mapping, Listening Skills
Bozorgian, Hossein; Fallahpour, Sediqeh; Alinasab Amiri, Mohammad – International Journal of Listening, 2022
This study investigates the effects of metacognitive intervention in first language on the listening performance of young-adult English as foreign language (EFL) learners in Iran, and probes the learners' attitude toward such intervention in English as foreign language classrooms. The participants in the study were 61 young-adult EFL learners…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Jamalifar, Golnaz; Salehi, Hadi – Language Learning Journal, 2020
The present study utilised a sequential explanatory mixed methods design to explore the impact of rehearsal and strategic task planning on Iranian EFL students' L2 Willingness to Communicate (WTC) in English. Rehearsal and strategic task planning were introduced to groups of intermediate English students to examine their efficiency for enhancing…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
Fathi, Jalil; Hamidizadeh, Razieh – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
As an attempt to shed more light on the effectiveness of strategy instruction in second language (L2) learning, the present study was set to investigate the contribution of listening strategy instruction to improve listening comprehension of English as foreign language (EFL) learners in Iranian context. In so doing, a number of 52 English…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies
Ghavamnia, Maedeh – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2022
The aim of this study was to examine the effect of instruction of self-regulatory strategies on the L2 reading comprehension of Iranian EFL learners on the one hand and improve the students' self-regulated learning on the other hand. In this research, the experimental group (N=35) received instruction on self-regulatory strategies whereas the…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Alhafidh, Firas Khairi Yhya; Marcelo, Carlos – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2020
Analyzing the process of how students self-regulate their learning has always been an educational research interest due to changing demographics of Digital Native learners (Prensky, 2001). This research focuses on lesson planning adapted to the Self-Regulated Learning Strategies university students develop when learning English or French and the…
Descriptors: Metacognition, College Students, Learning Strategies, Questionnaires