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Showing 3 results for Rezaei
Abbasali Rezaei, Sepideh Mehraein, Volume 22, Issue 1 (3-2019)
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Research on the effect of implicit and explicit instruction on developing learners’ explicit knowledge by the use of measures of explicit knowledge abounds in the literature. However, measuring learners’ implicit knowledge employing fine-grained measures has rarely been the concern of researchers in the field. Therefore, the present study is an attempt to scrutinize the effectiveness of implicit and explicit instruction through administering a Word Monitoring Task (WMT), as a more valid psycholinguistic measure of implicit knowledge. The necessary data were collected from 47 pre-intermediate participants in three different groups, i.e., (1) the implicit group received textually enhanced texts of verb complementation, (2) the explicit group was presented with metalinguistic explanations and examples of the target feature, and (3) the control group was deprived of any instruction. The results of the mixed between-within subjects ANOVA revealed that although both implicit and explicit instructions facilitated the development of the implicit knowledge of the target feature, the learners in the explicit group outperformed their counterparts in the implicit and the control groups in both the immediate and delayed post-tests. Moreover, the results indicated more durable effects of implicit instruction compared with those of explicit instruction. Overall, the findings provided evidence for the superiority of explicit instruction and the long-term effect of implicit instruction in developing relevant knowledge of verb complementation. The findings of the study can benefit both teachers and learners in developing teaching/learning strategies to improve and facilitate the grasp of both explicit and implicit knowledge. |
Ghasem Barani , Zari Sadat Seyyedrezaei, Forough Aliabadi, Mohsen Davarzani, Volume 26, Issue 2 (9-2023)
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Many significant psychological antecedents accompany second/foreign language (L2) teachers in the classrooms. Most recent studies show that spiritual intelligence, happiness, job performance, and psychological well-being are among these antecedents; however, the relationship between these constructs is still underexplored in the context of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Therefore, this research aimed to explore the relationship among EFL teachers’ spiritual intelligence, happiness, and job performance considering the moderating role of psychological well-being. This study applied a correlational design. Iranian EFL teachers (n:103) were invited to participate in this study through convenience sampling. They were requested to fill out four questionnaires at work. The structural equation modeling (SEM) method was used through PLS software to analyze the collected data. Therefore, it was concluded that both spiritual intelligence and happiness positively influence EFL teachers’ job performance with psychological well-being only moderating the latter association. The findings of this study contribute to the knowledge on the teacher antecedents influencing their performance which can consequently result in enhancing the teachers’ job performance.
Shahrbanoo Parichehreh, Zari Sadat Seyyedrezaei, Ghasem Barani, Omid Mazandarani, Volume 27, Issue 1 (3-2024)
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This investigation examined the effect of BigBlueButton and formative assessment strategies (Mind Dump and Word Journal) on Iranian EFL students’ directed motivational currents (DMCs). Having utilized a quasi-experimental design, it was conducted among 90 out of 120 participants selected via convenience sampling. Quick Placement test was distributed to 120 students from English Translation and Literature at Sari and Qaemshahr branches of Azad University. 90 Iranian sophomore students were chosen and divided randomly into control, Face-to-Face, and BigBlueButton groups. Students in each experimental group (N=30) (Face-to-Face and BigBlueButton) were split into two subgroups (Mind Dump and Word Journal). Students in the experimental groups were taught narrative writing with instructional embedded formative assessment strategies, whereas students in the control group were taught without using these strategies and with traditional teaching methods. To gauge students’ DMCs, DMC Disposition Questionnaire was utilized. Students were distributed the questionnaire once at the outset and once at the end of the course. The results of Quade Nonparametric Analysis of Covariance indicated DMCs of Iranian EFL students using Mind Dump and Word Journal in BigBlueButton significantly improved compared to their counterparts implementing these strategies in Face-to-Face and those who did not use these strategies in the Control group.
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