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Prichard, Caleb; Moore, Jana E. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2016
Purpose: Schools often vary in how they balance teacher autonomy (TA) and administrative control, and research suggests that there may be several context-specific variables which may be influential. The purpose of this paper is to determine the influence of program variables on the level of TA, administrative coordination, and administration-staff…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Coordination, Educational Cooperation, English (Second Language)
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Ashraf, Hamid; Kafi, Zahra H. – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2017
The present study aimed at investigating the relationship between Iranian EFL, English as a foreign language, male and female instructors' philosophy of education and their professional development to see whether there is any significant relation between the type of philosophy of education that teachers hold and their professional development. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Estaji, Masoomeh; Dezfoolian, Shabnam – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
Teacher reflection is a salient activity which can assist teachers in getting a critical view about their effective teaching (Loughran, 2010). Among various factors that influence the teachers' reflection, teacher's Pedagogical Knowledge Base (PKB) can be considered of great significance. The current study sought to investigate the relationship…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Navidinia, Hossein; Beidokhti, Zeinab; Hekmati, Nargess – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2017
This study aims to investigate the predictive power of personality traits for EFL students' preference for isolated or integrated form-focused instruction (FFI). Participants were 160 Iranian EFL university students. Results indicated that students' personality traits, as measured by Costa and McCrae (Revised NEO Personality inventory (NEO-PI-R)…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, College Students
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Toraby, Ehsan; Modarresi, Ghasem – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
Emotions that teachers experience are not only important for their performance and satisfaction in the classroom, but they also affect their interaction with students and students' achievement. The present study mainly aimed to examine the association between teachers' emotions and students' perspectives towards the their teachers' success in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Emotional Response, Teacher Influence
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Ashraf, Hamid; Kafi, Zahra; Saeedan, Azaam – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
The present study has aimed at delving the code of ethics in testing in English language institutions to see how far adhering to these ethical codes will result in EFL teachers' professional behavior. Therefore, 300 EFL instructors teaching at English language schools in Khorasan Razavi Province, Zabansara Language School, as well as Khorasan…
Descriptors: Ethics, Correlation, Multiple Regression Analysis, Structured Interviews
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Rozati, Fatemeh – Issues in Educational Research, 2017
The main purpose of the present study was to systematically scrutinise the possible relationship between English as a foreign language (henceforth EFL) teachers' professional and institutional identity with their teaching efficacy. In doing so, 100 EFL teachers and instructors, within the age range of 30 to 50 (mean age = 40), and teaching…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Professional Identity
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Liu, Meihua – College Student Journal, 2017
This paper reports on the results of an investigation of the relationships between motivation, motivation intensity, use of Chinese outside of class and self-rated competence in Chinese. Analyses of 162 questionnaires and 17 semi-structured interviews revealed the following findings: (1) the participants reported having high integrative…
Descriptors: Motivation, Competence, Semi Structured Interviews, Chinese
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Amiryousefi, Mohammad – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
This study investigated how well interest and motives to communicate with the instructor (MCI) predict L2 willingness to communicate (WTC) and L2 speaking among English as a foreign language (EFL) learners, and tested whether these variables predict L2 WTC and speaking differently across different age and sex groups. It also examined whether there…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Age Differences, Gender Differences, Prediction
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Asakereh, Ahmad; Yousofi, Nouroddin – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2018
The present study investigated the relationship between reflective thinking, general self-efficacy, self-esteem and academic achievement of Iranian EFL students. To this end, 132 Iranian EFL students from three state universities were recruited. To collect the data, the participants completed four questionnaires, namely background information…
Descriptors: Reflection, Self Esteem, Self Efficacy, English (Second Language)
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Fajoju, Samuel A.; Aluede, Oyaziwo; Ojugo, Augustine I. – Research in Education, 2016
This study investigated the relationship between parental involvement in children's education and the academic achievement of primary six pupils in Edo State, Nigeria. The ex-post facto research design was employed in this study. The sample consisted of 1,895 primary six pupils (1,024 males and 863 females drawn from 37,908 primary six pupils in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, Parent Student Relationship, Academic Achievement
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Khabbazbashi, Nahal – Language Testing, 2017
This study explores the extent to which topic and background knowledge of topic affect spoken performance in a high-stakes speaking test. It is argued that evidence of a substantial influence may introduce construct-irrelevant variance and undermine test fairness. Data were collected from 81 non-native speakers of English who performed on 10…
Descriptors: Speech Tests, High Stakes Tests, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
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Huang, Hung-Tzu – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2017
The present study investigated how self-related English learning motivation among Taiwanese adolescent learners differs between students who only receive English instruction in formal schooling and those who have additional private tutoring. A total of 1,698 teenage English learners in public secondary schools across Taiwan completed a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Tutoring
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Davoudi, Mohammad; Chavosh, Milad – English Language Teaching, 2016
The present paper aimed at investigating the relationship between listening self-efficacy and multiple intelligences of Iranian EFL learners. Initially, ninety intermediate male learners were selected randomly from among 20 intermediate classes in a Language Academy in Yazd. In order to assure the homogeneity of the participants in terms of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Correlation, Listening Skills, Self Efficacy
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Merç, Ali – Current Issues in Education, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate the level and predictors of research-related anxiety among graduate ELT students in the Turkish context. 81 MA and PhD students from 14 universities offering graduate programs in ELT responded to a background questionnaire, a research anxiety scale, and a research self-efficacy survey. The analysis of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Student Research, Student Attitudes
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