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Direct linkRassouli, Aman; Osam, Necdet – SAGE Open, 2019
After four decades of anti-intrusion policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) against the English language, the time has come to evaluate their success rates and to study the status of this language in Iran. This study has thus investigated the status of the English language in Iran on two levels: one concerning the state's policies and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Instruction, English (Second Language), Government Publications
Mehdipour Maralani, Farnaz; Shalbaf, Azre; Gholamali Lavasani, Masoud – SAGE Open, 2018
Despite the role of agency in schools, few researchers have addressed the issue. The present study aims to analyze the relationship between agentic engagement, basic psychological needs, and test anxiety by using structural equation modeling. For this purpose, 289 female students in math-physics and basic sciences were selected as the samples by…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, Psychological Needs, Learner Engagement, Individual Power
Hassanzadeh Tavakoli, Farzaneh; Pahlavannezhad, Mohammad Reza; Ghonsooly, Behzad – SAGE Open, 2017
The present study sought to investigate the relationship between cultural capital of senior high school English teachers and their self-efficacy in Iran's English language classrooms using a mixed methods approach. To this end, all senior high school English teachers in seven districts of Mashhad city in Iran were selected as the study population,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Capital, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Tahmasbi, Maryam; Farvardin, Mohammad Taghi – SAGE Open, 2017
This study examined the effects of task types on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' receptive and productive vocabulary knowledge. To this end, 130 (70 female and 60 male) EFL learners were randomly assigned to one of six tasks of learning 30 target words. The design of the tasks was based on the involvement load hypothesis (ILH)…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Alimorad, Zahra; Tajgozari, Mostafa – SAGE Open, 2016
As potential mismatches between teachers' and students' perceptions can have negative effects on students' satisfaction with the language class and even on their ultimate achievement, many researchers have attempted to identify and examine possible sources of such mismatches. In line with those investigations, the present study intended to compare…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Student Attitudes
Shahani, Sara; Tahriri, Abdorreza – SAGE Open, 2015
The use of modern technologies has been widely prevalent among language learners, and video, in particular, as a valuable learning tool provides learners with comprehensible input. The present study investigated the effect of silent and freeze-frame viewing techniques of video materials on the intermediate English as a foreign language (EFL)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
