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Seraji, Farhad; Ansari, Saied; Chosarih, Muhammad Reza Yousefzadeh – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Increasing children's access to media has attached greater significance to media literacy education, the content and methods of which have changed with media development. This study aimed to investigate the effects of the Community of Inquiry (CoI) method on media literacy competencies in elementary students. To this end, 95 female sixth-grade…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Communities of Practice, Elementary School Students, Literacy Education
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Pishkar, Kian; Moinzadeh, Ahmad; Dabaghi, Azizallah – English Language Teaching, 2017
Speaking a language involves more than simply knowing the linguistic components of the message, and developing language skills requires more than grammatical comprehension and vocabulary memorization. In teaching-learning processes, drama method may have some positive effects on ELL students' speaking fluency and accuracy. This study attempts to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students
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Negari, Giti Mousapour; Azizi, Aliye; Arani, Davood Khedmatkar – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
The present study attempted to investigate the effects of audio input enhancement on EFL learners' retention of intensifiers. To this end, two research questions were formulated. In order to address these research questions, this study attempted to reject two null hypotheses. Pretest-posttest control group quasi-experimental design was employed to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Quasiexperimental Design
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Ahrari, Ramin; Jamali, Ramineh – Cogent Education, 2018
The present study aimed at investigating the effect of using collaborative translation tasks (CTTs) for teaching figurative language. The study also sought to explore the perceptions of the learners toward the efficacy of CTTs for learning figurative language through conducting interviews. The participants of the study included 60 English as a…
Descriptors: Translation, Cooperative Learning, Figurative Language, English (Second Language)
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Nejad, Ferdows Mohsen; Khosravian, Fereshteh – English Language Teaching, 2014
The present study examined the reliability of an achievement test to measure the efficacy of task-based writing activities to improve Iranian EFL learners' reading comprehension at the intermediate level in a private language institute in Ilam, Iran, namely Alefba language institute. To achieve the goal, the techniques for evaluating reliability…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Test Reliability, Writing Assignments
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Mohammadjani, Farzad; Tonkaboni, Forouzan – International Education Studies, 2015
The aim of the present research is to investigate a comparison between the effect of cooperative learning teaching method and lecture teaching method on students' learning and satisfaction level. The research population consisted of all the fourth grade elementary school students of educational district 4 in Shiraz. The statistical population…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning, Questionnaires, Test Reliability