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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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Ghanizadeh, Afsaneh; Ghonsooly, Behzad – Teacher Development, 2015
Causal attributions constitute one of the most universal forms of analyzing reality, since they fulfill basic functions in motivation for action. As a theory of causal explanations for success and failure, attribution research has found a natural context in the academic domain. Despite this, it appears that teacher attribution, in particular…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Attribution Theory
Ghonsooly, Behzad – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1993
Translation testing methodology has been criticized for its subjective character. No real strides have so far been made in developing an objective translation test. In this paper, certain detailed procedures including various phases of pretesting have been performed to achieve objectivity and scorability in translation testing methodology. In…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Criterion Referenced Tests, English (Second Language)