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The Effect of Providing Feedback and Feedforward in Prosody Instruction for Developing Listening Comprehension Skills by Interpreter Trainees
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Mahmood Yenkimaleki; Vincent J. van Heuven; Mostafa Hosseini – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
The present study examines the effect of feedback (FB) and feedforward (FF) in prosody instruction for developing listening comprehension skills in the nonnative language by interpreter trainees, using a pretest-posttest-delayed posttest design. Three groups of 25 interpreter trainees at Bu-Ali Sina University in Iran took part in the study, all…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Suprasegmentals, Listening Comprehension, Listening Skills
Discourse Markers in L2 Learners' Responses to Teacher-Generated Compliments during Classroom Interaction
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Morady Moghaddam, Mostafa – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
This study explores discourse markers (DMs) as they occur with compliment responses (CRs) in classroom interactions among Iranian learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). Using the tenets of conversation analysis, this paper draws on data from teacher-student interactions in several private language institutes in Iran. After audiorecording…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship
The Relationships among Self-Regulation, Emotional Intelligence, Willingness to Communicate, and Reading Comprehension of Persian Foreign Language Learners: Structural Equation Modeling
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Taherkhani, Reza; Moradi, Reza – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
This nationwide mixed methods study investigated the relationships among self-regulation (S-R), emotional intelligence (EI), willingness to communicate (WTC), and reading comprehension ability of Persian foreign language (PFL) learners in Iran. Therefore, 141 non-Persian students, from 28 different countries studying at 12 universities across Iran…
Descriptors: Self Control, Emotional Intelligence, Interpersonal Communication, Reading Comprehension
Enhancing Foreign Language Motivation through the Magic of Cooperative Learning: Dream or Reality?
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Fakhri Alamdari, Ebrahim; Ghani, Fariborz – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
Motivation, a major contributor to the acquisition of language skills, can be promoted consciously through principled methods. This study investigated the impact of cooperative learning (CL) on foreign language (FL) learners' motivation in Iran. Both quantitative and qualitative measures were applied to pursue the aims of this study. The…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Motivation, Foreign Countries