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Rasti-Behbahani, Amin; Shahbazi, Maryam – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
This study investigates the probable effect of a digital game-based vocabulary learning (DGBVL) task on the acquisition of some components of a word knowledge framework. In so doing, 124 Persian speakers (56 males and 68 females) were randomly assigned to either a control or an experimental group. The experimental group participants completed a…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Game Based Learning, Comparative Analysis, Task Analysis
Langus, Alan; Seyed-Allaei, Shima; Uysal, Ertugrul; Pirmoradian, Sahar; Marino, Caterina; Asaadi, Sina; Eren, Ömer; Toro, Juan M.; Peña, Marcela; Bion, Ricardo A. H.; Nespor, Marina – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Our native tongue influences the way we perceive other languages. But does it also determine the way we perceive nonlinguistic sounds? The authors investigated how speakers of Italian, Turkish, and Persian group sequences of syllables, tones, or visual shapes alternating in either frequency or duration. We found strong native listening effects…
Descriptors: Native Language, Listening Comprehension, Italian, Turkish
Noorazar, Seyed Gholamreza; Mohebbi, Mina; Alizadeh-Maralani, Fatemeh – Psychology in the Schools, 2021
Examining the long-term impact of bullying can facilitate using retrospective bullying experiences questionnaire (RBEQ) which provides information regarding bystander, bully and victim through childhood to adolescence. This study aimed to investigate the validity and reliability of this questionnaire in Iranian samples. A total of 92 male and 283…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Bullying, Psychometrics, College Students
Behzadnia, Ali; Mehrani Rad, Mehdi – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2020
In the present study, we investigated younger and older Persian preschoolers' response tendency and accuracy toward yes/no questions about a coloring activity. Overall, 107 three- to four-year-olds and five- to six-year-old children were asked positive and negative yes/no questions about a picture coloring activity. The questions focused on three…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Indo European Languages, Accuracy, Questioning Techniques
Mirzaei, Siamak; Lewis, Trent W.; Wyra, Mirella; Wilkinson, Brett – Research-publishing.net, 2020
This research study tends to evaluate the efficaciousness and usability of a Vocabulary Learning And Strategy Teaching Web-App (VLASTWA) -- a customised and targeted web-app for (1) teaching the KeyWord Method (KWM) which is a widely investigated vocabulary learning strategy, and (2) facilitating new vocabulary learning via KWM. In this…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sa'd, Seyyed Hatam Tamimi; Qadermazi, Zohre – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2014
This study is an attempt to examine the possible effect that exposure to English has had on the use of refusal strategies in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners compared with those of non-English learners when refusing in their native language, Persian. The sample included 12 EFL learners and 12 learners of other academic majors including…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Second Language Programs, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language)
Rassaei, Ehsan – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2017
This study investigated the effects of two modes of corrective feedback, namely, face-to-face recasts and computer-mediated recasts during video-conferencing on Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' second language (L2) development. Moreover, the accuracy of the learners' interpretations of recasts in the two modalities was…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Indo European Languages, Native Language
Rassaei, Ehsan; Moinzadeh, Ahmad – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
In the current study, we present the results of an experiment with 30 Persian EFL learners in which we explored the learners' perceptions of recasts and metalinguistic corrective feedback. The participant learners received either recasts or metalinguistic feedback for their errors during task-based interactions with their interlocutors and then…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Feedback (Response), Classification, Recall (Psychology)
Heidari-Shahreza, Mohammad Ali; Tavakoli, Mansoor – Language Learning Journal, 2016
Based on a prior study by Chen and Truscott, the present study investigated the possible effects of repetition (repeated exposure) and L1 lexicalization on the incidental acquisition and retention of 10 English target words by 90 Persian-speaking EFL learners at an Iranian university. Seven aspects of vocabulary knowledge were measured, including…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Retention (Psychology)
Khodadady, Ebrahim; Mehr, Somayeh Javadi – English Language Teaching, 2012
This paper reports a textual analysis of letters written by 21 male and 21 female participants in Persian. Each writer wrote two letters, one to a dating service and another one to a hypothetical person chosen and introduced by the center. Therefore, a total of 84 letters were collected from the participants. Schema theory was used to find the…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Letters (Correspondence), Dating (Social), Interpersonal Communication
Rahbari, Noriyeh; Senechal, Monique – Developmental Psychology, 2010
We investigated the reading and spelling development of 140 Persian children attending Grades 1-4 in Iran. Persian has very consistent letter-sound correspondences, but it varies in transparency because 3 of its 6 vowel phonemes are not marked with letters. Persian also varies in spelling consistency because 6 phonemes have more than one…
Descriptors: Spelling, Phonemes, Foreign Countries, Grade 4
Hussain, Irshad – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2014
Pakistan is a developing country with 148 universities and degree awarding institutions including public and private sector. The enrolment as given in the National Educational Policy 2009 was up to 5% only. It reflects greater demands of higher/tertiary education and calls for alternative strategic measures for addressing the issue. An innovative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Universities, Distance Education
Hosseininik, Seyyed Yavar; Sangani, Hamid Rahmani – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This study investigates the effects of cross-linguistic consciousness-raising through comparing and contrasting learners' L1 (Persian) and L2 (English) on their L2 written performance. To do this, sixty intermediate language learners, both male and female, learning English at two private institutes in Yasuj, Iran, were chosen as the participants…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Khawaja, Nigar G.; Santos, Maria Luisa R.; Habibi, Mojtaba; Smith, Rachel – Higher Education Research and Development, 2013
Australian, Iranian and Portuguese university students ("n"?=?967) completed the University Students Depression Inventory (USDI) in English, Persian and Portuguese languages, respectively. A series of MANOVA analyses were used to examine differences in depression symptoms as an effect of the country and demographic variables.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Depression (Psychology), Student Surveys
Ramezanzadeh, Farah S. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study adopted an interpretive/qualitative methodology to explore the issues and challenges of developing and maintaining Persian/Farsi as a heritage language in homes and neighborhoods for second-generation Iranian-American youth living in a major US metropolitan area with a sizable concentration of Iranian immigrants. The purpose of the…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Neighborhoods, College Students, Immigrants