Iranian TEFL
Iranian TEFL Graduates’ Conceptions of Measurement Error in Research: A Genealogical Narrative Inquiry
... The aim of this study is to investigate Iranian TEFL graduates’ conception of measurement error in research. Adopting a sequential explanatory multi- method strategy (Borg, 2009), the researchers analyzed ...
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Metacognitive Awareness and the Fluency of Task-based Oral Output across Planning Conditions: The Case of Iranian TEFL Students
... of Iranian TEFL students proved positive (Seifoori & Birjandi, 2008) whereas no positive impact was reported from mixed planning on complexity (Birjandi & Seifoori, ...of TEFL students’ oral ...
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Crossing the threshold of Iranian TEFL
... of TEFL in Iran, to seeing them as socially, culturally, religiously and historically located individuals, which is the future direction that TEFL in Iran should take, needs to be a mandate for ...
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A Qualitative Study of Washback Effects of New Iranian TEFL Ph.D. Program Entrance Exam on Applicants’ Study Plans and Strategies: Insights From Instructors and Applicants
... new TEFL PPEE on the plans and strategies the exam applicants employ to study for the new exam from the point of view of Iranian university instructors and the ...new TEFL PPEE, from the view points ...
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Effects of Self- and Peer-Editing on Iranian TEFL Postgraduate Students’ L2 Writing
... of TEFL. Therefore, the Iranian EFL learners can take benefit of the literature on corrective feedback in general and peer and self-correction in particular, to enhance their writing ...
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Plagiarism policies in Iranian university TEFL teachers’ syllabuses: an exploratory study
... in Iranian TEFL teachers ’ syllabuses in order to find out how they deal with it in their syllabuses and how they inform their students of their ...in Iranian higher education contexts ...how ...
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Quantitative, qualitative, or pragmatic: “Research potentials” for TEFL practitioners
... the Iranian context, such connotations of the terms ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ have led to the rise of the status of quantitative methods at the expense of qualitative ...amongst TEFL practitioners in Iran, where ...
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Effects of using Instagram on learning grammatical accuracy of word classes among Iranian undergraduate TEFL students
... among Iranian TEFL students later replaced by mobile teaching methods, TEFL students should be familiarized through mobile to cope with the new technologies in the area of ...
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Sociocultural Identity in TEFL Textbooks: A Systemic Functional Analysis
... Though generally expected to be ideologically rich due to the functional and meaning-based nature of language, the question of whether TEFL textbooks could impose any ideologies needed to be addressed. This study ...
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When the Research Design Matters in EFL Context: A Case of Different Responses to Open-response and Closed-response Questions on Motivational Orientation
... us, Iranian EFL learners do not appear as proficient as they should in spite of the high rate of motivation found among them ...orientation Iranian TEFL students are identified with; then, decide for ...
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Exploring the present and target academic English language needs of Iranian undergraduate students: a case at the Tabriz University of Medical Sciences
... 45%, TEFL teachers 83%, content teachers 80%; notably, higher percentages of teachers were in favor of this particular item compared to the percentage of students by almost two to ...most TEFL teachers ...
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Comparative study of metadiscourse markers employed in defense sessions of TEFL and Persian literature graduate students
... between TEFL and Persian literature graduate students in terms of applying metadiscourse markers in their oral presentations in defense ...of TEFL and Persian literature transcripts (each 15 ...both ...
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Effects of Different Culturally-Based Materials on EFL Learners’ Reading Anxiety, Reading Self-Efficacy, and Reading Proficiency in Project-Based Classes
... The objective of the current study was to investigate the effect of utilizing different culturally-based materials on intermediate TEFL freshmen’s foreign language reading anxiety, reading comprehension ...
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A generic analysis of academic written discourses: TEFL and Astrophysics in contrast
... Disciplinary difference brings about genre discrepancies which should be taken into consideration in language teaching. Aiming at clarifying these generic distinctive points in abstracts of the two fields of TEFL ...
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An Evaluation of Practicum Courses at Farhangian University
... of TEFL’ at Farhangian University were actualized, (2) the students’ language teaching profession needs were fulfilled, and (3) the participants were satisfied with the ...
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An Empirical Examination of the Association Between Multiple Intelligences and Language Learning Self-efficacy among TEFL University Students
... Nevertheless, the current study suffered from some limitations. The present study was presumably the first attempt to investigate the association between TEFL university students’ MI and self- efficacy. Moreover, ...
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Female Teacher’s Attitude towards English as a Medium of Instruction
... The main purpose of present study is to investigate the female teachers` attitude towards English as a medium of instruction in the context of TEFL (Teaching English as Foreign Language) in private schools at ...
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Comprehension of conversational implicature in an Iranian EFL context: A validation study
... This study was a preliminary attempt to investigate whether students of English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) have sufficient pragmatic competence to comprehend implicatures used in everyday English conversations. ...
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LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL VARIATIONS AS BARRIERS TO THE TEFL SETTINGS IN PAPUA
... 1963. There has been no clue to what exactly is the origin of Papuan. The an- swers were disputable among many researchers such as linguists and anthro- pologists, and it remains mysterious to whom they called “Papuan”. ...
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A SWOT Analysis of e- TEFL Curriculum: A Case Study
... Considering the fact that the factors mentioned above are some of determining factors that can potentially facilitate or hinder successful e-learning curriculum implementation (Markee 1997), it becomes necessary for the ...
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