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Direct linkLeila Gholami – Language Teaching Research, 2024
An extensive number of corrective feedback (CF) studies have examined learners' errors with grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and spelling (non-formulaic forms) and established an association between learners' uptake of CF and their second language development. However, learners' errors with formulaic sequences (FSs) comprising idioms,…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Feedback (Response), Error Correction, Second Language Instruction
Michael Sadeghi; Mostafa Pourhaji – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The present study examines the effects of pre-task explicit instruction on second language (L2) oral self-repair behaviour while controlling for the effects of working memory. The participants were 121 Iranian learners of English at incipient levels of language proficiency. Their working memory was measured using an operation span task and then…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Oral Language
Namaziandost, Ehsan; Razmi, Mohammad Hasan; Hernández, Ronald M.; Ocaña-Fernández, Yolvi; Khabir, Masoud – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2022
This study investigated the effect of synchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) text chat and voice chat on Iranian EFL learners' oral proficiency and anxiety. To this aim, 81 Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners were selected from among 125 students at private English language institutes. The selected participants were divided into two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Oral Language
Mohamadi, Omid; Torabinezhad, Farhad; Ebadi, Abbas – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2022
The Oral Motor Assessment Scale (OMAS) is a diagnostic tool used to assess the oral motor skills in individuals with neurological and neuromuscular disorders. This assessment was developed by Brazilian researchers and for the first time, its validity and reliability was examined in Brazil. The purpose of the present study was to examine the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Test Reliability, Test Validity
Download full textKhonamri, Fatemeh; Králik, Roman; Vítecková, Miluše; Petrikovicová, Lucia – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2021
The purpose of the current study is to investigate self-assessment as a helpful strategy for facilitating teaching and learning in language classrooms and to investigate the effects of this technique on EFL learners' oral performance. To achieve the purpose of the study and answer the research questions, a quasi-experimental study was conducted.…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Literary Genres
Jalilzadeh, Kaveh; Yeganehpour, Parisa – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2021
The purpose of this research was to examine the connection between intermediate EFL students' oral performance and their emotional intelligence (EI) as well as desire to communicate (WTC). The main objectives of this research were to examine how willing English-language learners were to communicate, in order to discover whether there was a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Communication (Thought Transfer), Anxiety
Kobra Tavassoli; Zahra Sorat – International Journal of Language Testing, 2023
Despite widespread studies on language assessment literacy (LAL), there are still many unexplored areas about LAL (Gan & Lam, 2022). One of these areas is identifying various aspects of LAL regarding different language skills and scrutinizing the English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers' involvement with these aspects. Accordingly, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Sherkuziyeva, Nasiba; Imamutdinovna Gabidullina, Farida; Ahmed Abdel-Al Ibrahim, Khaled; Bayat, Sania – Language Testing in Asia, 2023
This study aimed to examine the impacts of computerized dynamic assessment (C-DA) and rater-mediated assessment on the test anxiety, writing performance, and oral proficiency of Iranian EFL learners. Based on Preliminary English Test (PET) results, a sample of 64 intermediate participants was chosen from 93 students. Running a convenience sampling…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Zeinab Hatami Nasab; Mehrak Rahimi – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2023
The study explored the impact of multimedia-enhanced STEAM activities on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' development of oracy skills and willingness to communicate (WTC) in an online course. The sample included 42 EFL learners who were randomly split into two groups with 21 students in each. Before the study, both groups' listening…
Descriptors: Art Education, STEM Education, Learning Activities, English (Second Language)
Yavari, Fereshteh; Shafiee, Sajad – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
The present study attempted to explore the effects of employing shadowing and tracking on Iranian EFL learners' speaking fluency. From among 112 intermediate Iranian EFL learners at Jahad Danesheshgahi Language Institute in Isfahan, Iran, 60 were selected in the wake of administering the Preliminary English Test and divided into four groups:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Namaziandost, Ehsan; Neisi, Leila; Kheryadi; Nasri, Mehdi – Cogent Education, 2019
The current study tried to investigate the impact of cooperative learning (CL) on improving Iranian intermediate EFL learners' oral proficiency motivations toward learning English. To fulfil this objective, 90 participants were selected and divided into two equal groups; one experimental and one control group. Then, the sample's speaking skills…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Abdolrezapour, Parisa – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2018
Over the last three decades, emotional intelligence (EI) has received considerable empirical attention especially in academic context. Following this line of research, the study reported in this paper investigated the relationship between trait EI and EFL learners' second language (L2) oral performance. A sample of 102 Iranian EFL students, all…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Emotional Intelligence
Ebadi, Saman; Ebadijalal, Marjan – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
This study reports the results of a mixed-methods investigation on the impact of a virtual reality (VR) tool on Iranian EFL learners' willingness to communicate (WTC) and oral proficiency. Twenty upper-intermediate EFL learners were divided into experimental and control groups role-playing as museum guides with and without Google Expeditions VR…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Farshi, Najmeh; Tavakoli, Mansoor; Ketabi, Saeed – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2019
The present study examined the effects of different types of written input on the learning and retention of collocational knowledge. Eighty-three second language (L2) learners from four intact classes were divided into a control group and three treatment groups. The treatment groups were provided with infrequent grammatical collocations embedded…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Second Language Instruction, Written Language
Aliyar, Mahnaz; Peters, Elke – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2022
Despite empirical evidence from research showing that the use of text-picture combination is beneficial for second language (L2) learning, little is known about the effectiveness of reading comic books for incidental vocabulary acquisition. This study investigated the effects of engaging with comic books on incidental learning of L2 Italian…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Italian, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development
