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Direct linkEbadi, Saman; Goodarzi, Ahmad – Reading Psychology, 2023
This study presents the results of a sequential explanatory mixed-method approach to investigate the Iranian English language non-gainers of a computerized dynamic reading comprehension test (CDRT) by utilizing a learning style survey. Using an interventionist approach, the researchers used the CDRT software to explore English learners' perceptual…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Tests
Ajabshir, Zahra Fakher; Ebadi, Saman – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2023
This study investigates the effects of teacher-focused feedback (TF) and automatic writing evaluation (AWE) on global writing performance as well as syntactic complexity, accuracy, lexical diversity, and fluency (CALF) of English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' narrative and argumentative writings. The participants were randomly assigned to…
Descriptors: Automation, Writing Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Syntax
Download full textEbadi, Saman; Vakili Latif, Shokoufeh – Online Submission, 2021
Considering the theoretical shift caused by the anti-grammar movement of 1980 (Celce-Murcia, 1991) and the increase in the number of learners of Persian as a second language, this study investigated the realization of the consciousness-raising approach of grammar teaching in the intermediate level Persian Language Teaching course books in Iran. In…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Grammar, Textbooks, Textbook Content
Ebadi, Saman; Rasouli, Rezvan; Mohamadi, Mona – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Student response systems (SRS) have been used to provide teachers with immediate feedback on learners' performance to understand their weaknesses and strengths. This exploratory study is aimed at focusing on both distractive and facilitative aspects of using SRS in English as a foreign language (EFL) classes to assess learners' understanding of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Ebadi, Saman; Gholami, Mina; Vakili, Shokoufeh – Computers in the Schools, 2023
Online grammar checkers have increasingly been used in writing instruction to detect and remove English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' grammatical errors. This study investigated the effects of the automated writing evaluation software "Grammarly" on Iranian EFL learners' article errors which are common in EFL writing. Ninety…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ebadi, Saman; Bashir, Saba – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
This study utilizing a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design explored the impact of mobile-based dynamic assessment (MDA) on EFL learners' writing skills. Three intact classes (N = 30), including intermediate EFL learners attending a private English language school in Iran, participated in this study. They were evenly divided into two…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Skills, Handheld Devices
Ebadi, Saman; Bashiri, Saba – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2020
Having its roots in Vygotsky's Socio Cultural Theory of mind (SCT), Dynamic Assessment (DA) helps learners perform beyond their independent functioning abilities. This study seeks to investigate the effects of DA on Persian listening comprehension. An Iraqi university student learning Persian language was provided with listening comprehension…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Alternative Assessment, Listening Comprehension, Listening Comprehension Tests
Ebadi, Saman; Karimi, Elham; Vakili, Shokoufeh – Language Testing in Asia, 2023
As a part of a more extensive computerized dynamic assessment (CDA) project delivered through a dedicated website, www.lingeli.com, this study explores EFL learners' perspectives on an online listening comprehension dynamic assessment software focusing on inferential listening skills while trying to minimize the guessing effect. The study…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Listening Comprehension Tests, Language Tests, Computer Assisted Testing
Investigating Multiple Intelligence Theory in Children and Young Adult EFL Learners and Course Books
Sabzevari, Sajad; Ebadi, Saman – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2020
This study aimed at investigating children and young adult EFL learners of Iran Language Institute(ILI) and their course books in the light of Multiple Intelligence (MI) Theory. To achieve this aim, 240 EFL learners participated in this study. First, the students' intelligence profiles were identified by adapting and using Lazear's (1994)…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Children, Adolescents, English (Second Language)
Fathi, Jalil; Ebadi, Saman – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
In spite of the rise of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) as an alluring field of inquiry, there seems to be a paucity of empirical studies on the actual experience of English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers in the adoption of technology in their classes. In an attempt to remedy this gap, this study was designed to qualitatively…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Preservice Teachers, Technology Integration
Ebadi, Saman; Nozari, Fouzhan; Salman, Ahmed Rawdhan – Smart Learning Environments, 2022
This study investigated the impact of flipped vocabulary learning on the listening achievement of EFL learners. The study participants included 60 English language learners selected based on their performance on the Michigan Test of English Language Proficiency and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The experimental group was…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Comparative Analysis
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
Samiei, Fatemeh; Ebadi, Saman – Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 2021
This study presents the results of a mixed-methods approach in finding the effects of the WebQuest-based flipped classroom on the EFL learners' inferential reading comprehension skills. A group of EFL learners attending an IELTS course participated in the study. "T"-test and one-way repeated measures ANOVA were used to analyze the…
Descriptors: Inferences, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Rawdhan, Ahmed; Ebadi, Saman; Loan, Nguyen Thi Thuy – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
By employing Chen and Kuo's (2012) framework, this study comparatively investigated the rhetorical differences/similarities existing in the Literature Review chapters of Master of Arts (MA) theses authored by international and Iraqi MA students in the field of applied linguistics. The results showed that almost half of the international LR…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Masters Theses
Ebadi, Saman; Weisi, Hiwa; Khaksar, Zahra – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2018
Grit as an interesting and significant topic in psychology has been associated with better study habits and higher grades through perseverance and passion for long term goals. The only available measurement instrument of grit (Duckworth et al. in "J Personal Soc Psychol" 92:1087-1101, 2007) is general both in terms of its subject matter…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Construction, Persistence, English (Second Language)
