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Akram Ramezanzadeh – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2024
This study, conducted in Iran, examined English teachers' experience of authenticity, as the performative dimension of authentication, through a conceptual framework revolving around Durchsichtig (seeing through) and Handeln (action). Data were collected via big and small stories, and were hermeneutically analysed. Authenticity was seen through…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Kuhi, Davud; Aghrabaei-Fam, Yousef; Rezaei, Shirin – International TESOL Journal, 2022
Metaphor analysis has been used as a cognitive tool to raise awareness about assumptions and beliefs held by teachers and learners about the process of learning and teaching. Motivated by such an ambition, this study conducted with a quantitative and descriptive design examined the metaphors produced by Iranian high school students in an EFL…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Figurative Language, English (Second Language)
Roohani, Ali; Esmaeili, Maryam – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2022
This study probed EFL learners' negotiation of meaning and negotiation strategy in two unfocused and two focused tasks using a counterbalanced design. Each of the focused/unfocused tasks included one opinion-exchange and decision-making task type, which resulted in four particular task conditions. To this end, 36 Iranian intermediate EFL learners…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Persuasive Discourse, Decision Making
Shahmirzadi, Niloufar – International Journal of Language Testing, 2023
The documentation of test takers' achievements has been accomplished through large-scale assessments to find general information about students' language ability. To remove subjectivity, Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment (CDA) has recently played a crucial role in perceiving candidates' latent attribute patterns to find multi-diagnostic information…
Descriptors: Placement Tests, Test Validity, Programming Languages, Diagnostic Tests
Royaei, Nahid; Ghonsooly, Behzad; Ghapanchi, Zargham; Ahanchian, Mohammad Reza – MEXTESOL Journal, 2023
In today's educational system, teachers are highly accountable for implementing policy-driven changes in student learning and the development of the quality of educational institutions. The present study aimed to expand this research area by investigating the contributors as well as the manifestations of teachers' professional agency. To this aim,…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Pourhassan, Asqar; Nazari, Mostafa – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
Purpose: Despite the growth of theory and research on young English learners and the widely-recognized importance of critical incidents (CIs) in teachers' professional development (PD), little research has examined young-learner teachers' CIs. This study investigated the impacts of a PD course structured around CIs sharing/discussing on 14 L2…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Critical Incidents Method, Faculty Development, English (Second Language)
Hashemnezhad, Hossein – HOW, 2022
The purpose of the present study is to conduct a qualitative content analysis to explore factors affecting EFL learning in Iran. To achieve this aim, the researcher carried out face-to-face unstructured interviews with 10 EFL teachers and 12 university students. The researcher used MAX QDA 10 (Qualitative Data Analysis) software to analyze the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Processes
Elahi Shirvan, Majid; Talebzadeh, Nahid – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020
With the shift from negative psychology to positive psychology in the field of applied linguistics, and in alignment with the dynamic turn in this filed, recent studies have tried to micro-map foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) and foreign language enjoyment (FLE) from a dynamic perspective. However, the signature dynamics of learners'…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Language Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Baleghizadeh, Sasan; Zakervafaei, Hamidreza – MEXTESOL Journal, 2020
This study investigated the post-reading comprehension questions and task types in the "Four Corners" series based on Freeman's (2014) taxonomy, which was developed, specifically, for the L2 reading context covering a wider range of question types compared with previous taxonomies. While literature abounds with studies investigating the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Content Analysis, Taxonomy, Second Language Learning
Fathali, Somayeh; Emadi, Azadeh – JALT CALL Journal, 2022
Although CALL is still an emerging area of study in many countries, several studies have shown the significant contribution of these countries to the development of CALL worldwide, among which Iran is no exception. Contrary to the vast number of review studies on how this interdisciplinary area of study has been developed at the international…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Barghamadi, Maryam – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2021
Citation is an essential part of academic writing and allows writers to make strong arguments, review previous research, and express their opinions. This study investigates reporting verbs as a part of citation practice in the research articles published in Iranian and international journals (with different linguacultural backgrounds) in…
Descriptors: Verbs, Research Reports, Citations (References), Periodicals
Salmani Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Online Submission, 2018
This study attempted at classifying common errors found in the written performance of lower- and upper-intermediate Iranian EFL learners. It engaged a rich corpus of EFL writing samples collected over a course of 20 years (between 1992 and 2011) from lower- and upper-intermediate EFL learners studying at various Iranian universities to provide a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, College Students
Mostafaei Alaei, Mahnaz; Parsazadeh, Hossein – Intercultural Education, 2021
As there is no well-established benchmark in terms of the representation of culture in English Language textbooks, culture representation has often been treated as a matter of opinion. To address this gap, having classified the textbooks in an EFL context into three types, namely local, localised, and international, the researchers drew on the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Benchmarking
Chalak, Azizeh – TESL-EJ, 2021
The advent of social networks has provided a good platform for everyone to share information to present themselves. Instagram is a tool to participate in social reciprocity, not only by the exploration of information but also through self-praise. This study examined the self-praise by Iranian EFL learners on Instagram from a pragmatic perspective.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pragmatics, Social Networks, Social Media
Zabihi, Reza – Language Learning Journal, 2022
The study reported in this article examined the impact of task type on the ways in which learners resolve grammatical language-related episodes (LREs) and whether the level of engagement affects subsequent language development. Data were collected over a six-week period. Thirty-two Iranian second language (L2) learners were paired up to complete a…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grammar