Davoud Amini

Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University · Department of English Language and Literature

Each unit in Taking Sides: * Presents a tangible topic that is broad enough for every speaker to approach from an angle * focuses on what to say as well as how to say * Provides appropriate background knowledge on the issues related to the topic * Personalizes the learner's knowledge and perception of the topic to communicate for meaningful purpose...

The research on the effects of metacognitive strategy awareness and self-regulation on second language reading achievements has come to confirmatory conclusions. However, the associations and possible interactions between metacognitive and self-regulatory capacities have been subject of debate. Theoretically, the relationship between the two global...

Educating teachers for sustainability requires that teachers be considered as the mediators of change. To achieve this goal, a constructive teacher-learner relationship is essential where values and ethicality play a crucial role. Investigating language teachersí moral identity as an important aspect of teacher cognition can yield useful insights i...

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Emotional words are assumed to have a processing advantage over neutral words due to their emotional content. Meanwhile, this advantage depends on other word features such as frequency and the characteristics of the processor and context of learning. Accordingly, the current study investigated the simultaneous impacts of L2 words" emotional valence...

L2 Motivational Self System (Dörnyei, 2005, 2009) holds a remarkable potency in explaining the long-term routes to L2 acquisition. Meanwhile, due to the prevalence of dynamic systems perspective, the theory has been awaited to account for the affective and cognitive aspects of L2 learning. The present study attempted to test an integrated model to...

Moral emotions are increasingly recognized as a crucial component of learning a second or foreign language. This paper presents an in-depth evaluation of the research on the subject, covering the numerous moral emotions that English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students may experience, their effects on language learning results, and the individual a...

Moral emotions are increasingly recognized as a crucial component of learning a second or foreign language. This paper presents an in-depth evaluation of the research on the subject, covering the numerous moral emotions that English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students may experience, their effects on language learning results, and the individual a...

The purpose of this study was to explore multiple facets of the professional identities of Iranian in-service teachers in exceptional schools. The study adopted a qualitative design. The data were collected through in-depth interviews with 14 in-service teachers. The participants were selected through purposeful sampling. Each interview lasted up t...

Attitudes toward L1 use in EFL classes have ranged from an absolute ban to an inherent aspect of effective teaching. Code-switching, which refers to particular instances of L1 use in relation to psychological and social demands of classroom communications, has been investigated in terms of its appropriateness with regard to various classroom condit...

A prominent course of research on SLA emotions involves the investigation into how positive and negative emotions co-inhabit in L2 classes and the way they interact with other variables in the SLA situation in affecting L2 acquisition. The dynamic properties of classroom emotions render them in an appropriate position to fit well into a dynamic sys...

There have been some researches on the way teacher identities are (re)constructed; however, the study which investigates the improvement of the identity through the shift in language teaching has not been conducted. Thus the present qualitative study set out to investigate Iranian EFL teachers' professional development who had been teaching either...

Reading skill is a text-oriented cognitive capability applied when interacting with the written text. It is an essential skill that affects language learning and even academic achievement. Despite research on language learning has focused and contributed to the expansion of English language reading research, EFL students and even teachers are often...

Adopting the self-concept framework as a lens and interpretative case study as a methodological tool, the present study set out to examine how the professional identity of an elementary school teacher is socially (re) constructed while his transition from teaching at elementary schools to teach at universities. The design of the study was the intri...

Most of the models accounting for L2 oral production have deemed a significant role for vocabulary knowledge in this process. Previous studies have demonstrated a positive relationship between different aspects of lexical knowledge and performance or proficiency of second language skills including the speaking performance. Meanwhile, the findings h...

Code-Switching", an important issue in the field of both language classroom and sociolinguistics, has been under consideration in investigations related to bilingual and multilingual societies. First proposed by Haugen (1956) and later developed by Grosjean (1982), the term code-switching refers to language alternation during communication. Althoug...

The present study investigated the effects of cognitive complexity of pedagogical tasks on the learners' uptake of salient features in the input. For the purpose of data collection, three versions of a decision-making task (simple, mid, and complex) were employed. Three intact classes (each 20 language learners) were randomly assigned to three grou...

A remarkable body of empirical research within form-focused language teaching framework has examined the tripartite dimensions of corrective feedback, i.e., linguistic, contextual and individual aspects, in isolation. Nonetheless, a holistic understanding of the role of oral corrective feedback (CF) in the acquisition of L2 forms seems to rely on u...

The practice of „writing to learn‟ has been propounded as fast-tracking the dynamic process of noticing problems in L2 writing. However, a marked melioration in learners‟ attempted output requires a form of corrective feedback, among which modeling has proven to bear vigorous input enhancement effects. The present study attempted to inspect what EF...

Background: As a peculiar epistemological procedure to understand and represent world facts, literature has ‎constantly imparted major contributions to human knowledge. Literature’s epistemological ‎effects bear on both cognitive and affective measures; however, its emotional functioning is ‎more remarkable. Fiction resorts to mimesis on readers’ m...

Local song are an important part of Iran’s oral literature involving a wide range of moral emotions and enthusiasm. The local and emotional richness of these songs places them in a privileged position as to the effectiveness of the moral development of the members of the community because, based on emotional ethical theories, the ethical source is...

This study investigated the relationship between trait emotional intelligence (TEI) and executive skills (ESs), and the differences between TEI and ESs among Malaysian and Iranian youths. In this study, 226 Malaysians and 248 Iranians completed the TEIQue-SF and Executive Skills Questionnaire. Hypotheses were tested with Partial Least Squares-Struc...

This paper reports the findings of a questionnaire-based survey on 256 users and their quality expectations in a Malaysian conference interpreting (CI) setting, which was investigated by means of qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection and analysis. A four-point ordinal scale adopted from Zwischenberger & Pöchhacker (2010) determine...

ABSTRACT State of flow has been conceived as the optimal mental condition on a learner's part for task engagement and learning (Csikszentmihalyi, 1990). The occurrence of flow experience during language learning activities depends to a large extent on those features of learning environment which are mainly derived from a dynamic view of cognitiveaf...

ABSTRACT State of flow has been conceived as the optimal mental condition on a learner's part for task engagement and learning (Csikszentmihalyi, 1990). The occurrence of flow experience during language learning activities depends to a large extent on those features of learning environment which are mainly derived from a dynamic view of cognitive-a...

Flow is an optimal psychological state that has been described at length by Csikszentmihalyi (1990, 1993) as a state in which people become totally immersed in an activity and enjoy it intensely. According to Csikszentmihalyi, such a peak experience can emerge in any situation in which there is an activity to do. Researchers have indeed found evide...

This paper presents a detailed report of the users’ quality expectations and the extent to which the expectations vary based on the type of conferences in Malaysian conference interpreting setting using a questionnaire-based survey study. Five conferences were selected for the purpose of data collection and 256 users rated eleven quality criteria o...

As part of an unpublished doctoral thesis on “Conference Interpreting in Malaysia”, this paper reports clients’ expectations and highlights the necessity of taking what they anticipate as ideal into consideration. The study tailored on-site and off-site questionnaire-based survey study in Malaysian conference interpreting setting. The relative impo...

p> Interpreters’ perceptions about their profession and quality of interpreting were explored by a survey in five international conferences to fill in the gap between research and practice in conference interpreting and quality expectations in a Malaysian setting. Open-ended questions formed the main part of the questionnaire, adapted from Moser (1...

Abstract This paper is part of an unpublished doctoral thesis on “Conference Interpreting in Malaysia”. Expectations of users were explored by an on-site questionnaire-based survey study in Malaysian conference interpreting setting. The relative importance of various linguistic and non-linguistic criteria for quality was obtained through quantitati...

A number of studies has investigated whether definite types of written corrective feedback combinations of different types are more beneficial than others. It seems that teaching writing and giving feedback to students’ written task accuracy is an important task for teachers, so this study tried to investigate the effects of different types of feed...

In recent years, the application of writing tasks has effectively shed lights on promoting learners' written production. Research on SLA stresses the importance of tasks in the case of complexity, fluency and accuracy (Foster, 1997, 2001; Givon, 1985; Robinson, 2001; Skehan, 1998), since they have had fluctuating impact on L2 learning. However, wha...

This paper is part of an unpublished doctoral thesis on “Conference Interpreting in Malaysia”. Expectations of users were explored by an on-site questionnaire-based survey study in Malaysian conference interpreting setting. The relative importance of various linguistic and non-linguistic criteria for quality was obtained through quantitative and qu...

The study examined the relationship between the learners' self-efficacy and their writing performance across genders. Specifically, this study investigated the self-efficacy and writing performance of Makoo and Marand EFL students majoring in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). One hundred twenty learners, between ages 20-29, were chosen...

Current approaches to L 2 motivation view language learning motivation as situated, dynamic and task-dependent (Pawlak, 2012). Despite the widespread recognition of motivation as a crucial variable in L 2 acquisition, few studies have focused on the effect of motivational involvement of learners in an instructional setting, such as task-based langu...

Both cognition and affect have been proven to have a significant role in instructed second language acquisition. Unlike cognitive processes, the affective processes in language learning have not received due attention in the research on taskbased language teaching. The effect of task-related emotional state on learning achievements resulting from t...

The present study is an attempt to investigate the impact of two different types of pre-reading activities of 1: glossary of unknown vocabulary items and 2:content related support on EFL learners’ performance on reading comprehension across low proficiency (LP) and high proficiency (HP) levels. 80 language learners with an age range of 18-28(male a...

WTC (willingness to communicate) emerged as a concept to account for individuals' first language (L1) and second language (L2) communication. It is important to know what factors affect WTC in acquiring English proficiency. It has been conceptualized a heuristic model according to which authentic communication in L2 could be seen as a result of com...