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Maltese as a foreign language educators’ acquisition of intercultural capabilities

This study sought to understand how teachers of Maltese as a foreign language (MFL) develop intercultural capabilities by exploring the importance of intercultural competence (IC) to MFL teachers, the characte...

Authors: Jacqueline Żammit

Measuring the contribution of specialist vocabulary knowledge to academic achievement: disentangling effects of multiple types of word knowledge

This study investigates the idea that knowledge of specialist subject vocabulary can make a significant and measurable impact on academic performance, separate from and additional to the impact of general and ...

Authors: Ahmed Masrai, James Milton, Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs and Heba Elmenshawy

Investigating metalinguistic written corrective feedback focused on EFL learners’ discourse markers accuracy in mobile-mediated context

Among a growing body of research that examined the contradictory role of written corrective feedback (WCF) in development of L2 writing accuracy, this study investigated the possible impact of focused metaling...

Authors: Natasha Pourdana, Payam Nour and Fariba Yousefi

The pedagogical efficacy of ESP courses for Iranian students of engineering from students’ and instructors’ perspectives

Casting light on the pros and cons of every educational program, the outcomes of an effective evaluative endeavor may serve as a guideline for education authorities interested in content enhancement schemes. F...

Authors: Sartoon Mostafavi, Ahmad Mohseni and Gholam-Reza Abbasian

Comparative study of the effect of face-to-face and computer mediated conversation modalities on student engagement: speaking skill in focus

This study investigated the potentials of face –to- face and computer mediated conversation (CMC) as two speaking modalities on students’ engagement. To this end, 30 Iranian male intermediate EFL learners were...

Authors: Maryam Bagheri and Zohre Mohamadi Zenouzagh

Using inquiry-based writing instruction to develop students’ academic writing skills

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of using inquiry-based writing instruction on students’ academic writing skills. A pretest-posttest two groups quasi-experimental design was employed. Data ...

Authors: Bantalem Derseh Wale and Yenus Nurie Bogale

25 years on, the written error correction debate continues: an interview with John Truscott

Authors: Hassan Mohebbi

A study of the proficiency and performance of Iranian Air Traffic Controllers: attitude, work experience and specific aviation English courses

This study is an exploratory study, which was conducted in relation to the study of the proficiency and performance of Iranian Air Traffic Controllers: attitude, work experience, and specific Aviation English ...

Authors: Massoud Rahmati and Siros Izadpanah

Utilizing an automated tool analysis to evaluate EFL students’ writing performances

Recently, the integration of linguistics and technology has been promoted and widely used in the field of linguistics and English writing research for several purposes. One of those purposes is to evaluate Eng...

Authors: Anongnad Petchprasert

Exploring the consequences of teachers’ self-efficacy: a case of teachers of English as a foreign language

Teacher self-efficacy has been abundantly studied. However, it seems that the consequences of teachers’ self-efficacy have not been appropriately explored yet. The research objective was to investigate the con...

Authors: Goudarz Alibakhshi, Fariborz Nikdel and Akram Labbafi

Dialogic discussion as a platform for constructing knowledge: student-teachers’ interaction patterns and strategies in learning to teach English

Beginning teachers are frequently heard making observations that the knowledge and skills they have acquired on the training programmes do not come handy when they want to apply them in their real-work situati...

Authors: Lawrence Jun Zhang and Donglan Zhang

Impact of teacher-student writing conferences on frequency and accuracy of using cohesive devices in EFL students’ writing

While the bulk of feedback studies have focused on written corrective feedback, oral feedback in teacher-student writing conferences in EFL context has been underexplored. This article investigated teacher ora...

Authors: Abdullah Rajab Alfalagg

Textbook-assigned and self-selected topics of Iranian male EFL learners: topic interest, topic familiarity, topic importance, and topic difficulty

In recent years, learner-centered teaching has emphasized the demand for making healthy environment where learners’ preferences, interests, personal experiences, cultural backgrounds and lifestyles are taken i...

Authors: Latifeh Shakourzadeh and Siros Izadpanah

Assessing pre-service teachers’ professional identity construction in a three-phase teacher education program in Iran

The critical role of teachers suggests that assessing teacher identity construction helps teacher educators understand the changes in teachers and design materials in harmony with their needs in teacher educat...

Authors: Fariba Haghighi Irani, Azizeh Chalak and Hossein Heidari Tabrizi

The effect of structured versus unstructured collaborative pre-writing task on writing skills of the Iranian EFL students

Writing is considered a very complicated task for many EFL students and Iranian EFL learners have many problems in this regard. Present study through a mixed method design, attempted to investigate the effect ...

Authors: Maryam Beiki, Neda Gharagozloo and Reza Raissi

The impact of colors on human memory in learning English collocations: evidence from south Asian tertiary ESL students

This paper aims to highlight the significance of color that captivates human attention in learning English collocations in an educational setting. In order to expedite the impact of color on memory, an empiric...

Authors: Jahangeer Khan and Chengyu Liu

Using meta-analysis of technique and timing to optimize corrective feedback for specific grammatical features

Grammar varies in semantic, morphosyntactic, and phonological complexity, which may influence what type of Corrective Feedback (CF) is effective. The present study was designed to investigate the best form of ...

Authors: Andrew Schenck

A mixed-method study of Iranian EFL teachers’ achieving resiliency: implications for teacher development

The present study was an endeavor to investigate the differences between novice and experienced teachers’ achieving resiliency in an explanatory sequential mixed method study. Forty Iranian (i.e., 20 novice an...

Authors: Elham Entesari, Mohammad Hosssein Yousefi and Hedayat Eslami

A comparative study of the effect of teacher’s group and individual feedback on Iranian EFL learners’ learning of speech acts in apology letter writing

The linguistic scrutiny of any aspect of pragmatics is bound to considering carefully the context in which it is expressed. This becomes very glaring when the utterances that constitute discourse are viewed as...

Authors: Zahra Pourmousavi and Zohre Mohamadi Zenouzagh

Review of The Palgrave Handbook of Applied Linguistics Research Methodology, by Aek, Phakiti; Peter De Costa; Luke, Plonsky; & Sue, Starfield

Authors: Kioumars Razavipour

ELT teachers’ epistemological beliefs and dominant teaching style: a mixed method research

Despite voluminous studies into teachers’ cognition and the role of teachers’ beliefs in their practices, not many studies have addressed the impact of teachers’ epistemological beliefs (EB, beliefs about the ...

Authors: Neda Soleimani

Assessing the effect of giving and receiving written corrective feedback on improving L2 writing accuracy: does giving and receiving feedback have fair mutual benefit?

Although the findings of second language (L2) studies conducted to date have provided evidence for the positive effect of written corrective feedback (hereafter feedback) on improving L2 learners’ writing gram...

Authors: Afsar Rouhi, Minou Dibah and Hassan Mohebbi

Representation of inner, outer and expanding circle varieties and cultures in global ELT textbooks

The rise of world Englishes has challenged the emphasis on native-speaker accents and cultures in English language teaching. This study aimed to investigate the representation of world Englishes and cultures i...

Authors: Zia Tajeddin and Maryam Pakzadian

Effects of using inquiry-based learning on EFL students’ critical thinking skills

The aim of this study was to examine the effects of using inquiry-based learning on students’ critical thinking skills. A quasi-experimental design which employed time series design with single group participa...

Authors: Bantalem Derseh Wale and Kassie Shifere Bishaw

Gaining favorable identities of Iranian EFL teachers: a single case study of transition from elementary schools to universities

Adopting the self-concept framework as a lens and interpretative case study as a methodological tool, the present study set out to examine how the professional identity of an elementary school teacher is socia...

Authors: Farzad Rostami, Mohammad Hosssein Yousefi and Davoud Amini

A cultural comparison of Persian and English short stories regarding the use of emotive words: implications for teaching English to Iranian young learners

Using a contrastive analysis approach, this study aimed to study emotive words (EWs) in Persian and English short stories for children. It actually tries to find the similarities and differences between the tw...

Authors: Ehsan Namaziandost, Mehdi Nasri, Fariba Rahimi Esfahani, Leila Neisi and Farahnaz Ahmadpour KarimAbadi

EFL Teachers’ Conceptions of Professional Development during the Practicum: Retrospective Perceptions and Prospective Insights

The current study probes into English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers’ conceptions of their professional development during practicum course. The study merits a mixed methods approach and has utilized bot...

Authors: Mozhgan Aghabarari and Mehrak Rahimi

Investigating the professional agency of secondary school English teachers in South Korea

This qualitative study examines the professional agency of secondary English teachers in Midwestern South Korea. Specifically, it investigates how secondary English teachers in South Korea understand their pro...

Authors: Wook Namgung, Josephine Moate and Maria Ruohotie-Lyhty

Iranian novice English teachers’ agency construction: the complexity dynamic/system perspective

This study drew on qualitative research and focused on the exercise of agency among the novice English teachers in the Iranian context. Fifteen novice English teachers who have been teaching English in private...

Authors: Farzad Rostami and Mohammad Hosssein Yousefi

Examining the influence of native and non-native English-speaking teachers on Korean EFL writing

Both Native English-Speaking Teachers (NESTs) and Non-Native English-Speaking Teachers (NNESTs) may have advantages as writing instructors, yet little is known about how they actually influence writing in EFL ...

Authors: Andrew Schenck

The relationship between self-efficacy and instructional practice of in-service soft disciplines, hard disciplines and EFL teachers

The present study aimed at investigating the relationship between teachers’ self-efficacy perceptions and their instructional practices. The mediatory role of the teachers’ occupational characteristics such as...

Authors: Shabnam Kurosh Khanshan and Mohammad Hosssein Yousefi

Comparing the impacts of various inputs(I + 1 & I-1) on pre-intermediate EFL learners’ Reading comprehension and Reading motivation: the case of Ahvazi learners

Considering the vital role of comprehensible input, this study attempted to compare the effects of input with various difficulty levels on Iranian EFL learners’ reading comprehension and reading motivation. To...

Authors: Ehsan Namaziandost, Mehdi Nasri and Meisam Ziafar

Scaffolding argumentative essay writing via reader-response approach: a case study

The variety of activities and techniques suggested for improving the writing skill shows that EFL/ESL learners need scaffolding to gain mastery over it. The present study employed the reader-response approach ...

Authors: Mojgan Rashtchi

A thematic corpus-based study of idioms in the Corpus of Contemporary American English

The traditional approach to presenting idioms relies mainly on teachers’ or materials writers’ judgement, one-by-one and quite incidentally; and the existing teaching materials and references for idioms are mo...

Authors: Elaheh Rafatbakhsh and Alireza Ahmadi

An innovative approach of incorporating a humanoid robot into teaching EFL learners with intellectual disabilities

The present case study investigated the probable effect of applying a humanoid robot as a teacher-assistant for learning and retention of English vocabulary among 10 Iranian foreign language learners with inte...

Authors: Minoo Alemi and Shirin Bahramipour

Anne O’Keeffe, Michael McCarthy the Routledge handbook of corpus linguistics (London: Routledge, 2010), xxviii.682 pp., ISBN 13:978–0–415-46,489-5 (hbk), $ 66

Authors: Amare Tesfie Birhan

Iranian EFL teachers and learners’ perceptions of grammar instruction and corrective feedback

This paper addresses Iranian English as Foreign Language teachers and learners’ perceptions of explicit grammar instruction and corrective feedback and the effect of language background on learners’ perception...

Authors: Mohammad Mohammadi and Mohammad Hosssein Yousefi

Effects of different text difficulty levels on Iranian EFL learners’ foreign language Reading motivation and Reading comprehension

This study investigated the effects of different text difficulty levels on Iranian EFL learners’ foreign language reading motivation and reading comprehension. To fulfil this objective, 40 Iranian participants...

Authors: Alireza Niazifar and Goodarz Shakibaei

The SFL genre-based approach to writing in EFL contexts

This research investigates the changes in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ psychological attributes in relation to awareness of the lexicogrammatical features and generic structures of a discussio...

Authors: Akiko Nagao

Learning proverbs through telecollaboration with Japanese native speakers: facilitating L2 learners’ intercultural communicative competence

Telecollaboration has been considered to have great potential for the development of L2 learners’ intercultural communicative competence (ICC), so an examination of what benefits L2 learners receive through te...

Authors: Maki Hirotani and Kiyomi Fujii

Understanding students’ motivation in translation learning: a case study from the self-concept perspective

To meet the increasing needs for translators and interpreters, Master of Translation and Interpreting (MTI) program was launched in Chinese universities. Discussion on how to cultivate MTI students who are sup...

Authors: Chunhong Liu and Chengyuan Yu

An exploratory study for factorial validity of cognitive styles among Japanese adult EFL learners: from educational and cultural perspectives

One of the major issues in L2 learning and cognitive styles is the ambiguity of these concepts. A solution to this issue should involve the following two aspects. First, studies of factorial validity should be...

Authors: Toshinori Yasuda

Comparing the effectiveness of input-based and output-based activities on productive knowledge of vocabulary among pre-intermediate EFL learners

The present study aimed to investigate the comparative impacts of input-based and output-based activities on vocabulary knowledge of Iranian EFL learners. To fulfil this objective, 54 intermediate EFL students...

Authors: Ehsan Namaziandost, Elham Saberi Dehkordi and Sajad Shafiee

A model of rhetorical markers competence in writing academic research articles: a qualitative meta-synthesis

The knowledge of diverse rhetorical relations is a remarkable component of competence in research article (RA) writing for learners’ successful handling of scholarly writing tasks in English for academic purpo...

Authors: Reza Khany, Mohammad Aliakbari and Saeedeh Mohammadi

The effectiveness of L2 vocabulary instruction: a meta-analysis

The purpose of the present meta-analysis is to the investigate the overall effectiveness of L2 vocabulary instruction and to find the moderator variables affecting its effectiveness. By defining a rigorous inc...

Authors: Mohammad Hossein Yousefi and Reza Biria

Exploring the association among working memory, anxiety and Iranian EFL learners’ listening comprehension

This study was intended to investigate the relationship between working memory, anxiety and Iranian EFL learners’ listening comprehension. For the purpose of this study, 60 Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learner...

Authors: Ehsan Namaziandost, Mitra Hafezian and Sajad Shafiee

The logical problem of scaffolding in second language acquisition

Scaffolding is one of the key dimensions of the sociocultural theory that has been proposed in a substantial body of work as a potential metaphor for promoting second language (L2) learning. However, there is ...

Authors: Esmaeel Hamidi and Rafat Bagherzadeh

The effects of input enhancement and explicit instruction on developing Iranian lower-intermediate EFL learners’ explicit knowledge of passive voice

The importance of teaching explicit knowledge of grammar has been one of the most controversial issues in L2 instruction. Despite the existence of considerable number of studies on different methods of grammar...

Authors: Sakineh Bakhshandeh and Khadijeh Jafari

Measuring foreign language anxiety among learners of different foreign languages: in relation to motivation and perception of teacher’s behaviors

This study investigates foreign language anxiety among Indonesian undergraduate students of English, French, Japanese, Korean and Arabic language programs, and examines its relationship with students’ motivati...

Authors: Fatmawati Djafri and Supra Wimbarti

Pragmatic functions of emoji in internet-based communication---a corpus-based study

Emojis have been indispensable and efficient tools in online interaction with the booming Internet and dramatically fast emergence of electronic communication channels. The present research is to study the pra...

Authors: Li Li and Yue Yang