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Leila Behzadi Soufiani; Saeideh Ahangari; Mahnaz Saeidi – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Regarding the three main features of scaffolding, namely, contingency, fading, and the transfer of responsibility, contingency entails the assistance adjusted to a learner's existing level of understanding. The present study investigated the effect of the model of contingent teaching on improving Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing Skills
Akram Ramezanzadeh; Abdolhossein Joodaki; Mahmood Reza Moradian – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2025
Combining teachers' big and small stories through a hybrid lens, the present study sought to examine the presence of meaning, as a component of well-being, in Iranian English language teachers within the discourse of sanctions, which could shape their positionality towards TESOL. Two themes were extracted: the emergence of critical hope and a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
Esmaeel Ali Salimi; Zhongfeng Tian; Alireza Ghasempour – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
In the past decade, research on EFL teachers' beliefs about translanguaging has significantly grown. However, little qualitative research has been done on teachers' translanguaging beliefs and practices and the congruity between them. To address this gap in the literature, the current study investigated Iranian EFL teachers' beliefs and practices,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Zahra Karimi; Hamid Marashi; Behdokht Mall-Amiri – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2025
The present study sought to investigate the effect of implementing choice theory-based instruction and clinical supervision on EFL teachers' self-efficacy. Accordingly, a total of 30 Iranian EFL teachers were selected through nonrandom convenience sampling based on their willingness to participate in the study. At the outset, they responded to the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Fariba Foroutan Far; Mahboubeh Taghizadeh – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
This study investigated the effects of digital and non-digital gamification on EFL learners' learning collocations, satisfaction, perceptions, and sense of flow. The participants divided into three groups of digitally gamified, non-digitally gamified, and non-gamified classes were 75 Iranian EFL students at B1 level. In each class, students were…
Descriptors: Gamification, Technology Uses in Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Tarek Assassi; Fouzia Rouaghe – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
As English is today's lingua franca, ESP is a flourishing domain of English language teaching and learning for learners seeking to enhance their professional or academic performance in a specific target situation. This review aims to classify research tendencies in the MENA region through topical themes explored in two major journals of ESP,…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Amin Shahini – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2025
In recent years, Social Networking Sites (SNSs) have witnessed a substantial surge in global user adoption. Apart from their primary intended functionalities, these platforms have been increasingly utilized for language learning purposes. However, the extent to which they cater to the needs of language learners remains a longstanding question. The…
Descriptors: Social Media, Student Attitudes, Social Networks, English (Second Language)
Roqayeh Enferad; Baqer Yaqubi; Seyyed Ghasem Hassani – Language Teaching Research, 2025
In this enquiry, I (the first author) as a teacher of English as a foreign language (EFL) reflect on my own deep-seated reluctance to use pair/group work activities in my classroom, although I am aware of the benefits of pair/group activities for second language (L2) learning as abundantly documented in empirical studies. Through an…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Nourollah Zarrinabadi; Ensieh Khodarahmi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Directed Motivational Currents (DMCs) are highly intense goal-directed motivational experiences that are characterised by establishing new routines and having positive emotions. The present study aimed to identify the factors that triggered the launch of DMCs among EFL learners. An interview protocol designed based on the core dimensions of the…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Intervention
Rad, Hanieh Shafiee – Teaching English with Technology, 2023
This research employed microlearning and flipped teaching approach, both together and separately, to examine EFL learners' grammar achievement and motivation. The design of this study was quasi-experimental by employing three intact classrooms as experimental groups (i.e. microlearning, flipped learning, and microflipped learning) and one intact…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Flipped Classroom, Learning Activities
Behrooz Kalantari; Mohammad Aliakbari; Reza Khany – TESL-EJ, 2023
The present study adopted a mixed-methods sequential explanatory design to explore the status of nurturing creativity in Iranian EFL classrooms. A standard questionnaire was given to 214 public high school EFL teachers to rate the frequency of using the creativity-nurturing strategies in their classrooms. While the curriculum policies stipulate…
Descriptors: Creativity, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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
Malihe YarAhmadi; Hossein Kargar Behbahani – Language Testing in Asia, 2025
Traditional approaches to language assessment have been criticized for their inadequacy in taking account of language learners' potential for development. To obviate this pitfall in traditional assessment, language teachers and researchers have been paying increasing attention to dynamic assessment (DA), which is rooted in Vygotsky's (1978)…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Translation
Mostafa Nazari; Sedigheh Karimpour – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
Despite the growth of research on EAP teachers in the past decade, little research has focused on their emotions and much less on their well-being. In response to this gap of knowledge, the present study draws on the theoretical framework of activity theory and explores the well-being of 13 Iranian EAP teachers. We collected data from a…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Well Being, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Instruction
Maryam Soleimani; Zahra Aghazadeh – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
The present investigation examines the impact of Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL) on the enhancement of EFL learners' idiom learning through "WhatsApp" during the COVID-19 pandemic. Three complete classes with 60 intermediate female learners (20 per class) were selected and randomly assigned into two experimental and one control…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Patterns, Telecommunications