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The Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Outcomes of EFL University Instructors' Relational Goals: Mediating Role of Teaching Self-Efficacy
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Fatemeh Javanmardi; Naser Rashidi; Bahram Jokar; Mohammad Saber Khaghaninejad – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2024
Relational goals newly added to the teachers' goal orientation framework have been identified as one of the central features of effective teaching. However, little research has taken such goals into account, specifically in higher education contexts. Concerning the association between self-efficacy and goal orientations, this study was undertaken…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Teachers, College Faculty
Directed Motivational Currents in Second Language: Investigating the Effects of Positive and Negative Feedback on Energy Investment and Goal Commitment
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Nourollah Zarrinabadi; Masoumeh Soleimani – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
This study examined the role of positive and negative feedback on goal commitment and energy investment among English as a foreign language learners who experienced directed motivational currents (DMCs). To this purpose, a systematic methodology was used to identify language learners with a DMC experience (six students, four females, two males,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Positive Reinforcement, Negative Reinforcement
Probing into the Influence of EFL Learners' Self-Assessment and Evaluation Apprehension in Predicting Their Personal Best Goals and Self-Efficacy Skills: A Structural Equation Modeling
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Ismail, Sayed M.; Heydarnejad, Tahereh – Language Testing in Asia, 2023
Effective instruction and assessment are greatly affected by many factors. The ever-growing literature on assessment outlined some cognitive, social, and emotional factors that directly or indirectly influence the learners' academic achievement. In spite of the rosy literature on assessment, the possible interplay among the Core of Self-assessment…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Self Efficacy, Self Concept Measures
Investigating Identity-Related Weak Developmental Assets and Their Barriers in Iranian Female Adolescents: Self-Worth, Self-Efficacy, and Personal Power
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Aghatabay, Rabea; Vaezi, Aliakbar; Mazloomy Mahmoodabad, Seyed Saeed; Rahimi, Mehdi; Fallahzadeh, Hosein; Alizadeh, Somayeh – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Achievement of a positive identity and its transition to adulthood is the most important task of the adolescent era. This cross-sectional explanatory mixed-method study sought to better understand barriers to identity development in female adolescents in Iran by explaining their own experiences and using a Positive Youth Development model as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Adolescents, Self Esteem
Social-Cognitive Predictors of Iranian College Students' Academic Well-Being
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Sadeghi, Ahmad; Mahdavi, Fatemeh – Journal of Career Development, 2020
The purpose of this study was to examine the application of Lent and Brown's social-cognitive model in predicting academic well-being of Iranian students. A total of 400 undergraduate students (252 female students and 148 male students) completed the measures of academic satisfaction, self-efficacy, environmental support, goal progress, and…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Foreign Countries, College Students, Well Being
Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction, Goal Orientation, Willingness to Communicate, Self-Efficacy, and Learning Strategy Use as Predictors of Second Language Achievement: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
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Karbakhsh, Rahime; Ahmadi Safa, Mohammad – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2020
The study of the complex impact of the cognitive and psychological factors' interplay in learning process has for long obsessed educational researchers. In an attempt to partially address the issue, the present study investigates the direct and indirect interrelationship among Iranian EFL learners' basic psychological needs satisfaction,…
Descriptors: Individual Needs, Need Gratification, Goal Orientation, Communication (Thought Transfer)
A Structural Equation Modeling of EFL Learners' Goal Orientation, Metacognitive Awareness, and Self-Efficacy
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Zafarmand, Atefeh; Ghanizadeh, Afsaneh; Akbari, Omid – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This article sets out to examine the relationship between EFL learners' goal orientation, metacognitive awareness and self-efficacy in a single framework. One hundred fifteen EFL students from two universities of Mashhad, a city in north-eastern Iran took part in this study. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was utilized to examine the…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Goal Orientation, Metacognition, English (Second Language)