Azizeh Chalak

Islamic Azad University, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch · English Department

The pragmatics of indirect reports: Socio-philosophical considerations is Alessandro Capone’s most recent book which is, as stated by the author, a monograph written after many detours. The book covers different topics including societal pragmatics, linguistics, and philosophy, and has been arranged from easy to more complicated materials. Capone m...

Abstract Developing reading comprehension ability is an important aspect in acquisition of a language. The present study focused on improving reading comprehension ability through Task-based Instruction (TBI). TBI is a methodology that develops from a focus on classroom tasks. The participants of the study were 135 Iranian female students at differ...

This paper investigated the communicative strategies and topics addressed by Iranian EFL non-native English speaking students (NNESSs) at both undergraduate and graduate levels in their natural, authentic e-mail interactions with their instructors at two universities in Isfahan, Iran during 2006 to 2009. Following the literature, the communicative...

Register, Genre, and Style introduces three analytical approaches and describes texts and their varieties from the perspectives of register, genre, and style. The primary focus of the book is on the register perspective. The authors believe that registers can be used to analyze and describe all text varieties of any type because they are more speci...

This paper investigated the various socio-psychological orientations of Iranian undergraduates towards learning English. It focused on the motivation orientations of the students and their attitudes towards the target language and its community. A group of 108 students majoring in English translation at Islamic Azad University, Khorasgan Branch in...

The availability and the use of mobile messaging applications are increasingly widespread among the new generation of students in Iran. The present study aimed to investigate the role of WhatsApp in the vocabulary learning improvement of Iranian junior high school EFL students. Using a mixed method design, a group of 60 students including 30 male a...

Speaking is the most important skill of language. Speaking a language is especially difficult for foreign language learners because effective oral communication requires the ability to use the language appropriately in social interactions, and in suitable context and situation. Purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between Irani...

The e-learning integration has emerged as an alternative strategy, significantly improving teaching and learning experiences in higher education worldwide. However, it has also presented different challenges and opportunities for teachers and students. This comparative, cross-cultural study explored the perspectives of German vs. Iranian EFL teache...

This study was intended to explore the Iranian EFL learners' stance towards Technology-Enhanced Personalized Language Learning (TEPLL) and how it influences language development. Specifically, this study investigated the relationships among learners' stances towards TEPLL, relating to effectiveness, integration into daily life, autonomy, engagement...

Following an explanatory sequential design, this study explored the possible association between the Professional Identity (PI) of Iranian female EFL university teachers in the Habitual Burnout (HB) phase and their Emotional Quotient (EQ). In the quantitative phase, a Structural Equation Model (SEM) was developed to investigate the promising relati...

International banking and its associated enterprises have experienced significant growth in recent times. As a result of this expansion, bank personnel must possess the ability to communicate appropriately, and effective English for Specific Purposes (ESP) programs need to be implemented accordingly. The present study investigated the language need...

This study aimed to investigate the effect of online group dynamic assessment (GDA) on the reflective and impulsive writing accuracy of ESP students, and their attitudes towards online GDA. The researcher selected 60 ESP students and they were divided into two groups, the experimental group (n=30) and the control group (n=30) with both reflective a...

Classroom management is a key component of teachers' professional competence in promoting learning. This study investigated teachers' classroom management strategies in responding to Iranian EFL learners' misbehaviors in terms of teachers' biological factors including age and gender. The participants of the study were 75 (41 females and 34 males) t...

Considering the needs of most English for a Specific Purpose (ESP) learners, speaking proficiency and terminology learning are two challenging objectives of their English learning. This anxiety is boosted when it comes to technical environments because it needs a range of specific vocabulary, resulting in lower scores than expected. Edutainment or...

The aim of this research was to investigate the effect of cooperative error detection in an online context on ESP students' writing accuracy and their attitudes towards cooperative error correction. To achieve this aim, the researchers selected 60 ESP students after homogenization. The Barratt Impulsivity Scale (Barratt, 1995) was administered to t...

Introduction: The acquisition of a second language has consistently emerged as a fundamental concern among students globally, paralleled by the enduring significance of motivation for second language learning. The primary objective of this study was to examine the intricate interplay between the motivational dimensions of the L2 self-system, encomp...

Vocabulary learning has always been meaningful in second language acquisition, which raises the proposition of strategies for learning and teaching vocabulary. This study intended to investigate the effect of one strategy in vocabulary learning which is mobile-assisted concept mapping on self-regulation capacity and vocabulary acquisition. Mind Mei...

Translating English Texts in Humanities offers an authentic multi-skills syllabus in reading and translating texts in humanities geared up to meet the needs of EFL learners majoring in English language translation. The book is graded by its wide range of texts from different subjects of studies pertinent to humanities and exemplary sentences and ex...

International banking has experienced significant growth in recent times. As a result of this expansion, bank personnel must possess the ability to communicate appropriately, and effective English for Specific Purposes (ESP) programs need to be implemented accordingly. There are limited amounts of research available on the present state of ESP in t...

In the early hours of 12 May 2020, Professor Farzad Sharifian unexpectedly passed away after a short illness. We in RELP have absolutely missed Farzad Sharifian (RIP) as one of our vibrant and valued Editorial Board members and a wholly decent, wonderful gentleman. Highly awarded as a competent researcher, Farzad was a leading, prolific scholar and...

Language teaching and learning have become more technologically advanced in recent years. These technological advances may change the nature of education and the place and the time at which the learning process takes place. In this regard, the present study investigated how the HelloTalk application affected Iranian intermediate EFL learners' auton...

Infographics are visual representations of information intended to be presented quickly and clearly. The present study aimed to investigate students ̓ attitudes toward using infographics in learning vocabulary in EFL classes. To this end, the participants were selected through available sampling and the study was conducted at Pand Institute in Abad...

Virtual learning has been defined as any system of education and instruction that brings together participants who are separated by geographical distances or time. Significantly, in a virtual learning environment, interactive telecommunications systems are utilized to connect learners, resources, and instructors. As such, the present study sought t...

Attention has been drawn to recent, expanding studies on Second Language (L2) online programs and problems with people with learning difficulties, including Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This group of learners suffers from feelings of detachment and low self-confidence due to their lack of Willingness to Communicate (WTC) in an o...

This study investigated Iranian intermediate EFL learners' attitudes toward using the HelloTalk app to improve their independent learning ability. Moreover, it examined the experts' and learners' attitudes toward utilizing the application. The study enjoyed a quasi-experimental design. In doing so, 54 intermediate EFL learners were selected from Fa...

This study examined frequent errors in graduate Iranian EFL students' academic writing to find the strategies and techniques which would help them overcome such errors. Employing a descriptive, non-experimental research design, the researchers analyzed 40 term papers collected from 40 graduate students studying TEFL at IAU, Isfahan Branch. To deter...

The present study investigated the effect of synchronous and asynchronous computer-mediated peer feedback on IELTS candidates' writing improvement and interactions. In so doing, 132 IELTS candidates from an English language center in six writing classes were chosen based on the convenience sampling procedure. They were split into three equal groups...

Critical Discourse Analysis is the analysis of ideology and power. It emphasizes obtaining the hidden meaning beyond a text and explains how speakers/writers use the power of discourse to take the readers'/listeners' attention. The present study was a non-experimental descriptive study conducted in 2022 that investigated the salient linguistic feat...

The methodological-conceptual approach towards exploratory-cumulative talk was the main motivation to set the present study to check whether there is any significant difference between the frequencies of the discoursal markers which show exploratory-cumulative features in the covertly-and overtly-translated texts. To this purposesixty-threeee lingu...

Hybrid problem-based learning (HPBL) as a learner-oriented method involves learning through collaboration while finding solutions to real-world problems. It has been employed in the education of English as a foreign language (EFL) students recently. Implementation of it in an EFL classroom, though might be a challenging task, has been approved a us...

While the main focus of the studies in the literature is centered around EFL teachers' identity construction in face-to-face classes regarding certain cliche factors, the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the potential of investigating EFL teachers' professional identity reflection in the developing contexts of distance education. Thus, this study exa...

With the rapid development of technology, multimedia comes into English classes and positively improves learners’ language proficiency. The present study attempted to consider the use of animated infographics on the vocabulary gain and retention of Iranian intermediate EFL students. The classes were held online through the Jitsi meet website in the...

The notion of emotional intelligence (EQ or EI) was provided to complement general intelligence. This study intended to study the influence of emotional intelligence on listening comprehension of junior high school EFL learners from both genders when using culture-based materials. In so doing, a number of 50 Iranian intermediate level EFL learners...

Intonation conducts a linguistic function and has a crucial role in discourse regulation. It is an essential skill that learners should acquire, mainly because it can impact comprehension and accuracy. Like other speech characteristics, intonation may comprise information about the speaker's traits. Therefore, this study examined whether intonation...

Technology-supported collaborative writing has gained popularity in L2 writing pedagogy. The study investigated the effects of Edmodo as an online social platform on the writing accuracy of 50 Iranian intermediate EFL learners, who were chosen through the convenience sampling method. The researchers utilized a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest de...

The purpose of this study was to consider the effect of the pamphlet of the study skill on writing texts of Iranian Pre-Intermediate EFL students in a private institute in Isfahan. To achieve the intended purpose, an Oxford Placement Test (OPT) was administered to 100 learners in a private English language institute and 60 pre intermediate learners...

Introduction: Positive psychology has been a buzzword in language learning and teaching practices recently. Among different concepts, grit, a tendency to maintain stamina to tackle long-term challenges, has received significant but inadequate consideration. Therefore, the current study aimed to investigate the role of grit in learning English as a...

Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) is a research-based instructional practice in teaching reading comprehension which combines comprehension and cooperative learning. This study investigated the effect of CSR on Iranian high school students' reading comprehension. Using a quasi-experimental design, 60 female high school students were selected ba...

The English language has affected nearly every language community in the world. Persian is no exception as many English words have been borrowed in Persian. This study was non-experimental quantitative-descriptive research employing an approach to examine the Iranian postgraduate students' attitudes towards English lexical borrowings and if there w...

Teaching grammar has always created some challenges for EFL teachers. Therefore, this study explored the effect of four scaffolding strategies as contextualizing, modeling, metacognitive scaffolding, and bridging on Iranian EFL students' grammatical knowledge. Moreover, this study examined Iranian EFL learners' attitudes towards scaffolding strateg...

Pre-listening activity has a considerable role in improving listening comprehension. This research examined the effects of bottom-up and top-down pre-listening activities on Iranian EFL students' listening comprehension. It also investigated the potential interaction effects of language proficiency and gender with the treatments. Using the TOEFL (P...

English learners' turn-taking system has been impacted due to the sudden shift from traditional face-to-face classes to virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of the study was to obtain a closer understanding of how students and teachers constructed turns during their interactions. The data were collected from the audio transcri...

One of the affective factors contributing to the EFL learners' learning outcome is their preferred language learning strategy. This study aimed to investigate the possible role of E-mind mapping as a modern node-link teaching technique in adopting a specific self-regulated language learning strategy (SRLLS) among Iranian EFL learners. Based on quas...

The Covid-19 Pandemic has influenced EFL learners' turn-taking system due to the sudden shift from traditional face-to-face classes to virtual learning. This study aimed at investigating the role of gender in turn-taking patterns in online Iranian EFL classrooms. To this end, the discourse exchanges of 55 Iranian upper-intermediate online English l...

Because of the Covid-19 outbreak, all academic institutions all over the world swiftly shifted to reconstitute the presentation of their courses that customarily took place on campus. This study explored the kind of online professional identities that English teachers in private language institutes constructed during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Addition...

Using evaluative language has been considered as the significant predictor of academic writing success in second and foreign language research. Such an importance paved the way for the current study to investigate the use of the APPRAISAL tool, namely ATTITUDE resources, in the research articles (RAs) written by native (N) and non-native (NN) write...

Classroom discourse refers to the language and interaction used by the teacher and the students to communicate and shape learning in the educational context. The present study focused on Iranian EFL teachers' classroom discourse by observing their dominancy, teacher talk, question types, and interactions in their classes. To do so, through a non-ex...

At the discretion of the approved curriculum by Iran’s Supreme Council of Programming of the then-Ministry of Culture and Higher Education (now officially known as Ministry of Science, Research, & Technology), students majoring in English translation at the MA level are allowed to translate a whole textbook as their thesis. The present research stu...

The rapid development of messaging technologies has bridged the gap between teachers and learners and brought a new style in daily social interactions of the individuals, which prompted concerns about the matter of politeness in interacting via different means of communication. This study investigated the politeness strategies and the levels of (im...

The upheaval time of COVID-19 highlighted the importance of an effective way of teaching English to the front-line healthcare workers such as medical doctors and researchers with different digital-divide status, particularly in non-English-speaking countries because they were first-hand users of critical pandemic-related information in mostly-Engli...

In recent years social networking sites have affected almost all aspects of our lives. The Instagram social network has become popular among people, and there are lots of pages on this social media, which are explicitly presenting English materials to their followers. This non-experimental descriptive study aimed to determine the strength, weakness...

Given the importance of complimenting and responding to compliments in everyday interactions, several studies have investigated the strategies used to compliment and also to respond to compliments. This systematic study offers a thorough review of research on Compliment Responses (CRs) in the Persian language conducted over the past three decades....

Among daily speech acts, compliments and their responses are of high frequency and carry a special cultural-sociological load. As such, the present study aimed at investigating compliment responses (CRs) employed by Iranian EFL learners on Instagram. In doing so, 360 CRs were collected from 60 Iranian male and female EFL students. Using Maíz-Aréval...

Using evaluative language has been considered as the significant predictor of academic writing success in second and foreign language research. Such an importance paved the way for the current study to investigate the use of the APPRAISAL tool, namely ATTITUDE resources, in the research articles (RAs) written by native (N) and non-native (NN) write...

Writing as one of the important skills needed for communication has always been the topic of research in English teaching contexts. To improve the writing of English students, teachers employ different methods. This study was designed to investigate the impact of the inquiry learning method on the grammatical accuracy of Iranian EFL learners' writi...

The advent of social networks has provided a good platform for everyone to share information to present themselves. Instagram is a tool to participate in social reciprocity, not only by the exploration of information but also through self-praise. This study examined the self-praise by Iranian EFL learners on Instagram from a pragmatic perspective....

57 This paper explored the process of professional identity construction of eight pre-service teachers through engagement during their practicum in a higher education institute in Tehran, Iran. By means of a longitudinal qualitative design within the social constructivist approach, data were collected by one semi-structured interview, one reflectiv...

Enhancing speaking ability is an important component of the acquirement of a language. The innovative aspect of this study is improving speaking ability through online strategy-based instruction by applying the Moodle course management system as an instructional platform. To this end, a group of 80 Iranian female and male students at the advanced l...

Autonomy, agency, and identity in teaching and learning English as a foreign language is Mark Feng Teng’s book which discusses the importance of autonomy, agency, and identity in teaching and learning English as a foreign language (EFL), all of these themes (i.e., autonomy, agency, and identity) are central subjects in the educational domain. They...

Virtual learning, in particular, has been defined as any system of education and instruction that brings together participants who are separated by geographical distances or time. Notably, in virtual learning environment interactive telecommunications systems are utilized to connect learners, resources, and instructors. Accordingly, the present stu...

Inspired by appraisal theory, the current study looked into the effect of using evaluative language on high- and low-graded post-graduate students’ academic writing in an EFL context across male and female groups. Participants were 60 MA students of TEFL who were randomly assigned to experimental (n = 30) and control (n = 30) groups. Attitudinal an...

Video podcasting technology or ‘vodcasting’ has proven to be in the forefront of distance education in general and computer assisted language learning in particular. It has flourished by minimising the possible needs of learners’ physical presence in second language classes and removing their affective barriers. The purpose of this study was to inv...

Video podcasting technology or ‘vodcasting’ has proven to be in the forefront of distance education in general and computer assisted language learning in particular. It has flourished by minimising the possible needs of learners’ physical presence in second language classes and removing their affective barriers. The purpose of this study was to inv...

The emergence of technology in the fast-paced life of today has changed the nature of education, particularly influencing the ways of teaching and learning new languages. This study investigated the effects of utilizing the electronic mind maps on the creativity of Iranian EFL teachers. Determining the attitudes and beliefs of Iranian EFL teachers...

Flipped teaching is the process of moving lecture content from face-to-face class time to before class. The potential values of flipped teaching in which learners are actively engaged in the learning process have been emphasized during the past years; however, there is still little research evidence about the attitudes of the learners towards flipp...

This study examined the possible adverse effects of cyber-psychological variables on the productive academic behavior of Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners with Xenoglossophobia in E-learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a sequential exploratory mixed-method design, in the qualitative phase, a comprehensive meta-integr...

This study examined the possible adverse effects of cyber-psychological variables on the productive academic behavior of Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners with Xenoglossophobia in E-learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a sequential exploratory mixed-method design, in the qualitative phase, a comprehensive meta-integr...

Enhancing speaking ability is an important component of the acquirement of a language. The present study is consistent with developing speaking ability through online strategy-based instruction. The innovative aspect of this study is applying the Moodle course management system as an instructional platform. To this end, a group of 80 Iranian female...

Problem-based Learning (PBL) as one of the newest teaching methods in the area of language teaching in second and foreign contexts, has been used by teachers in the last two decades in different institutes. In the current study, attempts were made to find out the effect of the two PBL subcategories, i.e. Hybrid Problem-based Learning (H-PBL) and Pu...

The application of various creative teaching methods including mind-mapping has attracted English teachers. Instructors have always shown interest in establishing contexts that motivate and encourage learners to be more enthusiastic in their learning process. Mind-mapping is among the teaching and learning techniques evolved in this regard. The stu...