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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
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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
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Zahra Zargaran – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
Providing feedback on EFL Learners' speaking errors has been extensively researched, with numerous studies highlighting its benefits (Van Ha, et al., 2021; Hartono, 2022). This study investigates the impact of "pending feedback", a type of feedback where students must independently discover the correct answer. This research emphasizes…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Accuracy
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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
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Ali Elhami; Anita Roshan – Intercultural Education, 2024
Muslims may not experience integration or assimilation in European countries, as they have certain values regarding hijab, eating restrictions, and lifestyle. They may therefore face more challenges than other migrants. With the insight that religiosity may have an impact on migrants' national and/or ethnic identities, we look at the role of…
Descriptors: Religion, Immigrants, Ethnicity, Self Concept
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Nazari, Mostafa; Karimpour, Sedigheh; Xodabande, Ismail – TESL-EJ, 2023
While research on second language teacher cognition (SLTC) has significantly developed over the past three decades, this line of inquiry has not paid adequate attention to material development/evaluation as compared to the key role that materials play in teachers' daily practice. In response to this gap, in this study we adopted the theoretical…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Xu, Li; Naserpour, Azam; Rezai, Afsheen; Namaziandost, Ehsan; Azizi, Zeinab – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
Owing to the limitations of linguistic modes to portray aptly L2 learners' metaphors of language learning experience, growing attention has been paid to taking advantage of other modes like visual ones to ameliorate this concern. Hence, the present study sought to explore images and metaphors Iranian EFL learners may have in mind about the essence…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Noori, Mahdieh – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2022
Shifting focus of asocial language tests toward social considerations recalls their ideological basis (Mirhosseini, De Costa, 2020). The recurrent exposure to and involvement in discursive constructions of high stakes' contents, may bring along certain sociocultural conceptualizations and values by test audiences (van Dijk, 1998). Thus, unless a…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Test Content
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Jaber Kamali; Sedigheh Shakib Kotamjani; Muhammet Furkan Alpat – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
This study attempts to explore the teachers' beliefs on the causes of learners' misbehavior in language classrooms. To do so, 23 language teachers completed a narrative frame in which they discussed a misbehavior experience they had in the class and why they thought it happened; they, then, attended semi-structured interviews where they discussed…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ayad Kamalvand; Mohammad Javad Mohammadi – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
Nearly all multidimensional models of communication competence have pragmatic competence at their core. Proper assessment of second language (L2) pragmatics makes many demands on L2 teachers, both in terms of understanding the construct and in language test development. Therefore, being assessment literate helps teachers in developing effective…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Guidelines, Language Teachers, Language Proficiency
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Pileh Roud, Leila Fekri; Hidri, Sahbi – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
The current study addressed the impact of computerized dynamic assessment (C-DA) on the TOEFL "i"BT listening comprehension test administered to Iranian EFL learners (n = 185) who took part in preparation courses on the TOEFL exam in some language centres in Iran. To mediate the test-takers with hints to process the listening questions,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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Mostafa Morady Moghaddam; Seyyedeh Fahimeh Parsaiyan – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2025
In the field of TESOL, teacher guides are widely used resources providing instructional support and guidance to English language teachers. Drawing upon Vygotskian sociocultural theory, this research explored how novice language teachers perceive the mediational roles of these artifacts in shaping their teaching practices and the affordances and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Nazari, Mostafa; Xodabande, Ismail – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
Mobile phones are turning into a growingly widespread educational tool across various contexts. However, the scope of research on teachers' role in mobile-oriented instruction is limited, much less examining how professional development influences their associated beliefs and practices. Grounded in sociocultural theory, this study aimed to fill…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
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Karim Shabani; Iman Bakhoda – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
The introduction of Vygotsky's sociocultural theory (SCT) into the second language (L2) domain provides a potential site to explore the mechanisms underlying L2 learners' cognitive modification and the transformation of social understanding into the personal one. This study provided a picture of L2 personalization in two groups of advanced and…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Learning Theories, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Nazari, Mostafa; Tilaki, Melika Jargani – MEXTESOL Journal, 2021
The study of language teacher and learner identity has turned into a vibrant line of research in recent years. Little research, however, has specifically addressed teachers' understanding of learner identity and the contributions this awareness offers to various aspects of their work. This study explored fifty Iranian EFL teachers' understanding…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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