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Download full textCortazzi, Martin; Jin, Lixian – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2021
This paper employs the innovative method of Elicited Metaphor Analysis to present original research in Malaysia into students' metaphors for 'language'. We summarize reasons why language and first/ second language learning are centrally important in education, and show patterned features of language metaphors in proverbs and in teacher talk about…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Language Usage, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Huston, Simon; Huston, Elena; Kozlowski, Marek – Education Sciences, 2019
This research investigated the significance of learning dispositif (LD) and emotional attachment (EA) on perceived learning success (LS) across a diaspora of Western, Russian, Asian, Middle Eastern and Chinese student cohorts. Foucault's LD captures the disparate socio-cultural contexts, institutional milieus and more or less didactic teaching…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Success, Social Influences, Cultural Influences
Direct linkTavakkoli, Zahra; Rashidi, Naser – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2020
In the Iranian education context where the concept of Sustainability Education is to a certain extent novel and fresh, one must first determine the state of Sustainability Education in education systems and specifically TEFL departments to discover EFL instructors' needs. This way, EFL instructors can be equipped with Sustainability Education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainability, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Esmaeili, Zohreh; Bagheri, Mahdi – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This study is a descriptive-correlational study with the purpose of evaluating the relationship between critical thinking skills and affective control in child training students of the female technical and Vocational College in the city of Broujerd. Statistical population of this study consisted of all students in the field of child training of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Females, Affective Behavior
Kormi-Nouri, Reza; MacDonald, Shane; Farahani, Mohammad-Naghy; Trost, Kari; Shokri, Omid – International Journal of Higher Education, 2015
The present study investigates academic stress in two different cultures, the Iranian as a collectivist culture, and the Swedish as an individualist culture. A total of 616 university students (312 Iranian and 304 Swedish) participated in the study. The results show that Swedish students experience more academic stress than Iranian students.…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Collectivism, Individualism, Stress Variables
Nahavandi, Naemeh; Mukundan, Jayakaran – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
The present study aimed at understanding the language learning strategy use of Iranian EFL learners' about learning a foreign language. The main purpose of the study was to understand if there was any relationship between proficiency level, gender and extra education in language institutes and strategy use. To achieve this end, 369 engineering…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Engineering Education
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
Nemati, Majid; Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali Salmani; Ashrafzadeh, Anis – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2010
The current study aimed to diagnose the probable significant differences in the use of language learning strategies among medical-text readers of opposite sex from different levels of proficiency. 120 (N = 120) participants were randomly selected from Azad Medical University of Mashhad: 60 medical students (age range 23-25; 30 = male and 30 =…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Medical Students, Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension
