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Soltani, Asghar; Bahador, Ali; Esmi, Keramat – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2023
Background: Students' perceptions of learning environment is known as the most frequent construct related to their learning outcomes. Students' motivation in learning science (i.e. personal mastery goals orientation, self-efficacy, and task-value) and self-regulation are among the outcome variables that are affected by their perceptions of science…
Descriptors: High School Students, Science Education, Educational Environment, Student Motivation
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Ismail, Sayed M.; Heydarnejad, Tahereh – Language Testing in Asia, 2023
Effective instruction and assessment are greatly affected by many factors. The ever-growing literature on assessment outlined some cognitive, social, and emotional factors that directly or indirectly influence the learners' academic achievement. In spite of the rosy literature on assessment, the possible interplay among the Core of Self-assessment…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Self Efficacy, Self Concept Measures
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Amini, Davoud; Anhari, Mostafa Hosseini; Ghasemzadeh, Abolfazl – Cogent Education, 2020
The research on the effects of metacognitive strategy awareness and self-regulation on second language reading achievements has come to confirmatory conclusions. However, the associations and possible interactions between metacognitive and self-regulatory capacities have been subject of debate. Theoretically, the relationship between the two…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Metacognition
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Safari, Ibrahim; Davaribina, Mehran; Khoshnevis, Iraj – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2020
This research intended to examine the influence of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers' self-efficacy, job satisfaction, and reflective thinking on their professional development. Two-hundred and twelve Iranian EFL teachers from different universities, language institutes, and schools participated in the research. They were requested to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Correlation
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Ghanizadeh, Afsaneh; Makiabadi, Hossein; Abdi Navokhi, Samaneh – Issues in Educational Research, 2019
Given the prominence of mindfulness in educational settings and the fact that little attention has been given to this concept in foreign language learning, the present study sets out to explore the influence of mindfulness and L2 resilience on Iranian EFL (English as a foreign language) learners' self-fulfilment, and L2 motivation. To meet this…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Predictor Variables
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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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Fallah, Nasser – Educational Psychology, 2017
This study sought to explore the relationship between mindfulness, coping self-efficacy (CSE) and foreign language anxiety (FLA) among a sample of 295 Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. Further, the capacity of CSE in mediating the relationship between mindfulness and FLA was tested. The participants were administered…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Coping, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Shakeebaee, Golshan; Pishghadam, Reza; Khajavy, Gholam Hassan – International Journal of Instruction, 2017
Given the importance of ethnocentrism in social interactions and its influence on language learning and teaching, the present study intends to explore the possible relationships between using life syllabus and "emotionalization" on ethnocentric views using the foreign language achievement (FLA) scores. To this end, 273 Iranian English…
Descriptors: Ethnocentrism, Second Language Learning, Emotional Response, Second Language Instruction
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Baygi, Ali Hosseini; Ghonsooly, Behzad; Ghanizadeh, Afsaneh – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2017
Effective learners are cognizant of their own basic needs and abilities so as to maximize their capabilities, dispositions, as well as potentialities up to become self-actualized individuals. To delve into the process of university students' self-actualization, we strived to amalgamate this construct with two motivational-associated factors, i.e.,…
Descriptors: Mastery Learning, Goal Orientation, Self Actualization, Semi Structured Interviews
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Pishghadam, Reza; Saboori, Fahime; Samavarchi, Laila; Hassanzadeh, Tahereh – Issues in Educational Research, 2016
The present study pursued two goals: first, to construct and validate a masculinity/femininity scale (MFS); and second, to reveal and compare the dominant gender identity of English, Arabic, and Persian teachers. Regarding the first goal, a 30- item gender identity scale was designed and, using the data collected from 300 junior high school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexual Identity, Language Teachers, Masculinity
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Abdollahi, Abbas; Talib, Mansor Abu; Yaacob, Siti Nor; Ismail, Zanariah – Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2016
Smoking is the biggest threat to public health, and it remains a serious cause of death in the world. It even causes acute and chronic diseases in passive smokers. Remarkably, the age of the onset of cigarette smoking is decreasing. Therefore, it is essential to increase our knowledge concerning the attitudes among adolescents toward cigarette…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Smoking, Health Behavior, Negative Attitudes
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Najafabadi, Maryam Omidi; Zamani, Maryam; Mirdamadi, Mehdi – Journal of Education for Business, 2016
The authors used Ajzen's theory of planned behavior and Shapero's entrepreneurial event model as well as entrepreneurial cognition theory to identify the relationship among entrepreneurial skills, self-efficacy, attitudes toward entrepreneurship, psychological traits, social norms, perceived desirability, social support, and entrepreneurial…
Descriptors: Models, Entrepreneurship, Agricultural Education, Intention
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Salehi, Hadi; Taghavi, Elham; Yunus, Melor Md – English Language Teaching, 2015
Many studies have been done in the developed countries due to the importance of job satisfaction; however, only a limited number of studies have been conducted on teachers' job satisfaction in Iran. This study is an attempt to investigate the relationship between teachers' job satisfaction and their attitudes towards students' beliefs and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction, Teacher Attitudes, English Teachers
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Hassanpour, Masoumeh; Ghonsooly, Behzad; Nooghabi, Mehdi Jabbari; Shafiee, Mohammad Naser – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2017
This quasi-experimental study examined the relationship between students' metacognitive awareness and willingness to read English medical texts. So, a model was proposed and tested using structural equation modeling (SEM) with R software. Participants included 98 medical students of two classes. One class was assigned as the control group and the…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Comprehension, Medical Education, Intervention
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Khajavy, Gholam Hassan; Ghonsooly, Behzad; Fatemi, Azar Hosseini; Choi, Charles W. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2016
This study examined willingness to communicate (WTC) in English among Iranian EFL learners in the classroom context. For this purpose, a second language willingness to communicate (L2WTC) model based on WTC theory (MacIntyre, Clément, Dörnyei, and Noels, 1998) and empirical studies was proposed and tested using structural equation modeling (SEM).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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