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Kumar, Tribhuwan; Soozandehfar, Seyyed Mohammad Ali; Hashemifardnia, Arash; Mombeini, Rasoul – Language Testing in Asia, 2023
Assessment has several advantages like involving students in learning and making them cognizant of their strengths and weaknesses. The effects of peer assessment and self-assessment as two main kinds of assessment have not examined on EFL learners' self-regulated learning, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills; therefore, the present…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ismail, Seyed M.; Rahul, D. R.; Patra, Indrajit; Rezvani, Ehsan – Language Testing in Asia, 2022
As assessment plays an important role in the process of teaching and learning, this research explored the impacts of formative and summative assessments on academic motivation, attitude toward learning, test anxiety, and self-regulation skill of EFL students in Iran. To fulfill the objectives of this research, 72 Iranian EFL learners were chosen…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation, Student Motivation, English (Second Language)
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Naseri, Somayeh; Motallebzadeh, Khalil – Educational Technology & Society, 2016
This study investigated the effect of listening to podcasts on Iranian upper- intermediate EFL learners' self-regulation ability and their perception toward the use of technology. To meet the objectives of the current study, 54 female Iranian EFL learners were selected. In experimental group they listened to podcast files while in the control…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Technology
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Mirzaei, Azizullah; Eslami, Zohreh R. – Educational Psychology, 2015
Recent second/foreign language (L2) research has witnessed the application of sociocultural tenets to L2 classrooms. This study aimed to probe whether Iranian L2 learners' engagement in ZPD-activated collaborative dialogue, or "languaging", mediates their learning process and, specifically, their appropriate use of metadiscourse to…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Second Language Learning, Sociocultural Patterns, Collaborative Writing
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Abbasian, Gholam-Reza; Hartoonian, Anahid – English Language Teaching, 2014
Self-regulated learning strategies have recently received a remarkable attention by researchers. The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between self-regulated learning strategies and students' language proficiency as well as their reading comprehension. To do so, 115 Iranian EFL university students were selected. First, a TOEFL test…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Correlation, Learning Processes, Reading Comprehension
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Sadaghian, Shirin; Marandi, S. Susan – Research-publishing.net, 2016
The concept of language learner autonomy has influenced Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) to the extent that Schwienhorst (2012) informs us of a paradigm change in CALL design in the light of learner autonomy. CALL is not considered a tool anymore, but a learner environment available to language learners anywhere in the world. Based on a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Online Courses, Web Based Instruction