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Zarrinabadi, Nourollah; Rezazadeh, Mohsen – Language Teaching Research, 2023
This study examined the effect of feedback, feed up (comments on goals and students' success in achieving goals) and feed forward (comments on the next step in learning during the semester) on writing motivation, writing self-efficacy, and writing anxiety. Two hundred and ten female intermediate language learners (age[subscript mean] = 17.2) were…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Writing Evaluation, Writing Instruction, Self Efficacy
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Alian, Jalal ed-din; Khodabandeh, Farzaneh; Soleimani, Hassan – Teaching English with Technology, 2018
In modern language teaching institutions and schools, the proficient language teachers apply different kinds of tasks to teach some skills and sub-skills. In the current study, the researcher investigated the effect of two different tasks, namely Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)-based tasks and written questions tasks on students'…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Ebrahimzadeh, Mohsen – English Language Teaching, 2017
The present study investigated vocabulary acquisition through a commercial digital video game compared to a traditional pencil-and-paper treatment. Chosen through cluster sampling, 241 male high school students (age 12-18) participated in the study. They were randomly assigned to one of the following groups. The first group, called Readers,…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Video Games, Conventional Instruction, Educational Technology
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Khanlarzadeh, Mobin; Nemati, Majid – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2016
The effectiveness of written corrective feedback (WCF) in the improvement of language learners' grammatical accuracy has been a topic of interest in SLA studies for the past couple of decades. The present study reports the findings of a three-month study investigating the effect of direct unfocused WCF on the grammatical accuracy of elementary…
Descriptors: Grammar, Control Groups, Pretests Posttests, Experimental Groups
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Nejad, Ferdows Mohsen; Khosravian, Fereshteh – English Language Teaching, 2014
The present study examined the reliability of an achievement test to measure the efficacy of task-based writing activities to improve Iranian EFL learners' reading comprehension at the intermediate level in a private language institute in Ilam, Iran, namely Alefba language institute. To achieve the goal, the techniques for evaluating reliability…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Test Reliability, Writing Assignments
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Paziraie, Mandana Eftekhar – English Language Teaching, 2013
This study is devoted to the effect of "textual metafunction" on the levels of coherence and cohesion in the Iranian EFL learners' English writing performance. Sixty Iranian intermediate EFL learners who were adult females participated in this study were randomly divided into two groups; experimental, and control. They were given a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Skills