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Mirhosseini, Seyyed-Abdolhamid; Sazvar, Azam; Rashed, Farnoosh – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2017
An important aspect of learning a foreign language is encountering the sociocultural orientations associated with it. The present qualitative study focuses on an Iranian setting of English language teaching (ELT) to explore the potential reflection and reproduction of certain cultural attitudes and lifestyles in this context. A total of 200 hours…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Qualitative Research
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Dehghan, Farzaneh; Rezvani, Reza; Javadi, Mohammad – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2016
Over the past decades, there has been an increasing tendency to incorporate new technologies in language education. Although EFL students and teachers are accustomed to using new technologies in their everyday life, they may not be well aware of such assets in education. This qualitative study aimed at investigating how Iranian B.A. English…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Ostovar-Namaghi, Seyyed Ali; Malekpur, Akram – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2015
Lots of studies have tried to test the effect of strategy training on vocabulary development. However, instead of trying to uncover the strategies that learners actually use, they have tried to expose learners to a list of strategies supported by theories. Although these theory-driven studies have provided the field with significant and…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Salmani Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Online Submission, 2016
This study aimed at investigating the preferred refusal strategies in Persian. 3047 refusals collected by 108 field workers as well as 376 refusals collected through face to face interviews were analyzed and classified according to the descriptions proposed by Liao (1994) and Liao and Bresnahan (1996). The frequencies of the resulting direct and…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Nonparametric Statistics, Statistical Analysis, Language Research
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Maryam, Ansary; Alireza, Shavakhi; Reza, Nasr Ahmad; Azizollah, Arbabisarjou – Higher Education Studies, 2012
Evaluation of faculty members' teaching is a device for recognition of their ability in teaching, assessing, the student's learning and it can improve efficiency of faculty members in teaching. In terms of growth of computer's technologies improvement of universities and its effect on achievement and information processing, it is necessary to use…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Role, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Foreign Countries