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Rasoul Bakhtiari; Farhad Seraji; Mohammadreza Farrokhnia; Zahra Habibzadeh; Omid Noroozi – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2025
This systematic review, utilizing the PRISMA framework, analyzes 248 international and 143 Iranian articles to provide an overview of studies on games in education. It examines five key themes: common terminology, methodology, type of study, variables studied, and technologies used, presenting findings in the same order of priority.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Game Based Learning, Comparative Education
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Omid Salmanpour; Omid Tabatabaei; Hadi Salehi; Melor Md Yunus – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
This study investigated the effect of using Stoodle software program on Iranian EFL teachers' autonomy, creativity, and work engagement in the light of teaching experience and gender. The participants comprised 60 EFL teachers including 30 male (15 novice and 15 experienced) and 30 female (15 novice and 15 experienced) teachers teaching at five…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Influence of Technology, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
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Afsheen Rezai; Ali Soyoof; Barry Lee Reynolds – European Journal of Education, 2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven chatbots, such as ChatGPT, have significantly impacted education, especially for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. However, there is paucity of empirical evidence concerning the role of chatbots in psycho-emotional constructs like well-being and emotion regulation. It is important to address this…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Technology Uses in Education, English (Second Language)
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Ebadi, Saman; Gholami, Mina; Vakili, Shokoufeh – Computers in the Schools, 2023
Online grammar checkers have increasingly been used in writing instruction to detect and remove English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' grammatical errors. This study investigated the effects of the automated writing evaluation software "Grammarly" on Iranian EFL learners' article errors which are common in EFL writing. Ninety…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Marjan Ebadijalal; Nouroddin Yousofi – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
The current mixed-methods study aimed at incorporating a virtual reality (VR) tool (i.e. Google Expeditions) into the writing process of Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) learners, examining its impact on their writing motivation and performance. To that end, 42 EFL learners were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups,…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Maps, Geography, English (Second Language)
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Elekaei, Atefeh – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic is a huge challenge to the world. It has interrupted many aspects of lives, especially education settings. Emergency remote education was put into practice to ensure the continuity of education while learners are physically out of universities, schools and institutes. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Computer Software, Synchronous Communication, Distance Education
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Ebadi, Saman; Vakilifard, Amirreza; Bahramlou, Khosro – Cogent Education, 2018
This study explored the effects of noticing and computerized dynamic assessment on the learning of Persian vocabulary through reading. In this quasi-experimental study, 75 intermediate learners of Persian as a Foreign Language (PFL) were assigned to three equal-sized groups. In the Noticing and Computerized Dynamic Assessment (CDA) groups, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Second Language Learning, Attention
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Zadahmad, Manouchehr; Yousefzadehfard, Parisa – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2016
Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) aims to improve all mobile applications such as m-learning systems. This study presents an innovative method to use web technology and software engineering's best practices to provide m-learning functionalities hosted in a MCC-learning system as service. Components hosted by MCC are used to empower developers to create…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Computer Software, Handheld Devices, Internet
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Bava Harji, Madhubala; Gheitanchian, Mehrnaz – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2017
Albeit Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) has been extensively researched, there appears to be limited studies that focus on the effects of multimedia technology (MT) enhanced TBLT approach on EFL development. A study was conducted to examine the effects of a MT imbued TBLT, i.e. Multimedia Task-Based Teaching and Learning (MMTBLT) approach on…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Language Fluency, Oral Language
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Kmalvand, Ayad – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2014
PowerPoint knowledge presentation as a digital genre has established itself as the main software by which the findings of theses are disseminated in the academic settings. Although the importance of PowerPoint presentations is typically realized in academic settings like lectures, conferences, and seminars, the study of the visual features of…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Technology Uses in Education, Applied Linguistics, Teaching Methods
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Eftekhari, Maryam; Sotoudehnama, Elaheh; Marandi, S. Susan – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2016
Developing higher-order critical thinking skills as one of the central objectives of education has been recently facilitated via software packages. Whereas one such technology as computer-aided argument mapping is reported to enhance levels of critical thinking (van Gelder 2001), its application as a pedagogical tool in English as a Foreign…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Critical Thinking, Technology Uses in Education, English (Second Language)
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Meihami, Hussein; Husseini, Fateme – Teaching English with Technology, 2014
The aim of this experimental research is to investigate the effect of using Text-to-Speech Software (TTS), one of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) resources in teaching reading, in particular, different aspects of reading fluency. In this study we investigated teaching and learning of word stress, word intonation, pitch contour, and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Assistive Technology, Computer Software
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Eshlaghy, Abbas Toloie; Kaveh, Haydeh – International Education Studies, 2009
The purpose of this study was to determine the most suitable ICT-based education and define the most suitable e-content creation tools for quantitative courses in the IT-management Masters program. ICT-based tools and technologies are divided in to three categories: the creation of e-content, the offering of e-content, and access to e-content. In…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology