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Direct linkHossein Kargar Behbahani; Sedigheh Karimpour – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
This study examined the effect of mobile-mediated dynamic assessment on reading comprehension and reading fluency skills of Iranian L2 learners. With 50 Iranian L2 learners, randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups, a pretest-posttest control group design was used. Whereas the control group received traditional instructor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Reading Comprehension
Lantsoght, Eva O. L. – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
The doctoral defence is the oral examination of the doctoral thesis. While it is a major milestone for doctoral candidates, this event is often shrouded in mystery. In this article, I explore the doctoral defence from an international perspective. I have studied the format of the defence based on written testimonies as well as the literature on…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Doctoral Students, Verbal Tests, Discourse Analysis
Download full textMostafa Naraghizadeh; Faramarz Azizmalayeri; Hamid Reza Khalaji – International Journal of Language Testing, 2023
The present study investigated Iranian EFL teachers' alternative assessment literacy (AAL). The study employed a sequential explanatory mixed methods design, including qualitative and quantitative approaches. To achieve more accurate results, the AAL inventory (Mertler & Campbell, 2005) and an interview with ten teachers (to explore their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Rezai, Afsheen; Ashkani, Parisa; Ismail, Sayed M. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
Although a range of studies has explored the effectiveness of group-dynamic assessment (G-DA) and process-based instruction (PBI) in second language (L2) learning, no study has compared the effects of G-DA and PBI on EFL learners' metacognitive awareness (MA) and listening comprehension (LC). Thus, this study aimed to explore the effects of G-DA…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods, Teaching Methods
Zadkhast, Mahtab; Rezvani, Ehsan; Lotfi, Ahmad Reza – Language Testing in Asia, 2023
The current study set out to investigate the effects of concurrent group dynamic assessment (GDA) and cumulative GDA on Iranian EFL learners' development of reading comprehension micro-skills. To this end, a convenience sample of 60 intermediate undergraduate EFL university students that were selected based on the results of a placement test and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Undergraduate Students
Azizi, Mahmoud; Pavlikova, Martina; Nováková, Katarína Slobodová; Baghana, Jerome – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2021
The role of corrective feedback in general and focused feedback in particular has been investigated widely in second language (L2) writing over the past several decades. Moreover, Dynamic Assessment (DA) with its roots in socio-cultural theory has been noticed to play a role in fostering language learner development and assessment. However, their…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Feedback (Response), Alternative Assessment
Ebadi, Saman; Bashir, Saba – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
This study utilizing a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design explored the impact of mobile-based dynamic assessment (MDA) on EFL learners' writing skills. Three intact classes (N = 30), including intermediate EFL learners attending a private English language school in Iran, participated in this study. They were evenly divided into two…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Skills, Handheld Devices
Ghahderijani, Behnoosh Heshmat; Namaziandost, Ehsan; Tavakoli, Mona; Kumar, Tribhuwan; Magizov, Rustem – Language Testing in Asia, 2021
This study attempted to check the impact of two dynamic assessment (DA) models on speaking CAF. DA, as opposed to static assessment, is conceived as an interactive approach to assessment that integrates teaching and testing into a unified instructional engagement. To achieve the goals of this research, a convenience sample of 90 upper-intermediate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Alternative Assessment, Group Testing, Computer Assisted Testing
Ghorbanpour, Elham; Abbasian, Gholam-Reza; Mohseni, Ahmad – International Journal of Language Testing, 2021
Uni-furcation of assessment and instruction has recently been realized in the form of purposeful assessment scenarios; Assessment [x-bar] Scenarios (analogous to Noam Chomsky's [x-bar] Theory!). [x-bar] here refers to any of the triple assessment scenarios including Assessment for Learning (AFL), Assessment as Learning (AAL), and Assessment of…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Second Language Learning, Listening, Formative Evaluation
Rezai, Afsheen; Alibakhshi, Gudarz; Farokhipour, Sajjad; Miri, Mowla – Language Testing in Asia, 2021
This study aims to disclose the Iranian university teachers' perceptions of the fundamentals of language assessment literacy (LAL). To this aim, using purposive sampling, eighteen university teachers from two Iranian universities were invited to participate in semi-structured interviews. Their viewpoints were audio-recorded, transcribed, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phenomenology, Alternative Assessment, Testing Problems
Rahmaty, Hanieh; Zarei, Abbas Ali – International Journal of Language Testing, 2021
Given the importance of assessment in language education, the main purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of interactionist and interventionist Dynamic Assessment (DA) on EFL learners' perfectionism, willingness to communicate (WTC), and foreign language anxiety (FLA). The participants were 166 pre-intermediate EFL learners in two…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Alternative Assessment
Pourdana, Natasha; Tavassoli, Kobra – Language Testing in Asia, 2022
Portfolio assessment (PA) as an assessment "for" learning (AfL) alternative has been under-represented in second/foreign language acquisition (SLA) research literature. This study examined the potential impacts of electronic PA (e-PA) on English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) learners' engagement modes in descriptive and narrative genres of…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Portfolio Assessment, Portfolios (Background Materials), College Students
Alemi, Minoo; Miri, Mola; Mozafarnezhad, Alemeh – International Journal of Language Testing, 2019
Although group dynamic assessment (GDA) has been gaining attention over the recent decade, its applicability in online context has been left rather underexplored. Hence, the current study examined the effects of GDA on developing EFL learners' written grammatical accuracy in the online context of 'Telegram'. To this aim, 60 Iranian EFL students…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Group Testing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Zarbafian, Azadeh; Abbasian, Gholam-Reza; Mohseni, Ahmad; Baradaran, Abdollah – Cogent Education, 2020
This study aimed to investigate the Iranian EFL students and their teachers' perceptions of the factors involved in the implementation of Transformative Education (TE). More importantly, the focus was on investigating the feasibility of the integration of TE with Dynamic Assessment (DA) in the Iranian EFL setting. To do so, 105 Iranian university…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Majors (Students), Second Language Learning
Farrokh, Parisa; Rahmani, Ayda – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2017
This study aimed to investigate the dynamic assessment of writing proficiency in Iranian English learners´ writing ability in transcendence tasks based on Vygotskian perspective. The questions which this research intended to answer were: (1) Does dynamic assessment affect Iranian English learners' writing ability? (2) Do the results of dynamic…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Writing Ability, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
