Ehsan Namaziandost

Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences | ajums · Department of General Courses

Emotion regulation plays a crucial role in shaping the professional efficacy of English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers in higher education. Despite this, examining how emotion regulation intersects with job satisfaction, job effectiveness, and psychological well-being in university EFL teachers in Iran is largely under investigation. Addressi...

As an integral part of dynamic assessment, computerized dynamic assessment (CDA) offers learners computer-assisted automated mediation. Accordingly, the possible efficacy of corrective feedback seems to be enhanced with new technologies, such as artificial intelligence tools, that offer automatic corrective feedback. Using technology-enhanced learn...

As technology becomes increasingly embedded in English as a foreign language (EFL) education, understanding the pedagogical potential of tools like ChatGPT is essential. This phenomenological study investigates how ChatGPT facilitates L2 development from the perspectives of senior EFL students. A purposive sample of 21 students (9 males, 12 females...

This study examined the effect of the 4/3/2 technique on Iranian EFL learners' speaking fluency by considering the moderating role of working memory (WM). The study involved sixty EFL learners attending a language institute in Shiraz. The participants, aged 14 to 18, all shared Persian as their first language and were pre-intermediate learners of E...

Psychological factors, such as the fear of misunderstandings, making grammatical mistakes, and academic demotivation contribute to students' anxiety when speaking English in language classes. Some students may struggle to contribute actively to tasks and activities in English because they do not perceive themselves to be autonomous agents, feel eng...

The significant demand for and growing trend toward the use of online classrooms calls for the use of modern teaching technology. The use of technologies for Mobile-assisted learning may open up new avenues of inquiry and instruction in the field of instruction. SHAD Application (SHAD App) is the offspring of the Coronavirus school closer in Iran....

This research focuses on Iranian undergraduate students and examines the impact of peer support on anxiety, success, growth mindsets, and enjoyment of learning English as a foreign language. This study employed a sequential exploratory mixed-methods approach to examine the impact of language learning interventions through peer- support on students’...

Purpose-Psychological well-being is a central aspect of mental health, and it can be defined as the presence of enjoyment and fulfillment, as well as resilience. Different factors are critical in the tone and melody of language teachers' psychological well-being. Cognitive emotion regulation (CER) pertains to the intentional cognitive strategies em...

SHAD is a commonly utilized technological platform for educational purposes among children and adolescents in Iran. Yet, the ways to enrich it to enhance users’ psychological well-being have remained underexplored. This experimental study aimed to investigate the impacts of incorporating supportive tasks through the Telegram app into the SHAD platf...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly evolving field with the potential to revolutionize various aspects of education, especially in open and distributed learning, including distance education, hybrid learning, and blended learning. AI can transform curriculum design, content delivery, assessment, feedback, learner support, and learning analyti...

In EFL classrooms, each teacher is expected to be able to act professionally in teaching and assessing the students through the ability to control emotions. However, studies that capture such phenomenon are lacking. This study investigated the narratives of Indonesian EFL teachers’ emotional geographies who conducted online assessments using 'Funta...

Self-determination theory (SDT) has been the subject of pioneering studies in recent years. SDT is centered on the basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness and their necessary role in self-determined motivation, well-being, and growth. The objective of the present research was to investigate the relationships between learn...

This study investigates the role of self-assessment (SA), classroom climate (CC), and psychological variables in learning-oriented assessment (LOA) within English as a foreign language (EFL) education. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, data was collected through surveys and semi-structured interviews from EFL learners and instructors. Findings re...

The rapid advancement of technology has opened up new avenues for language learning, and understanding the factors that impact students' behavioural intentions is crucial for the effective integration of technology in EFL classrooms. The present study investigates the influence of risk-taking behaviour and the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) in e...

In recent years, dynamic assessment and positive psychology have attracted the attention of many researchers. This phenomenological study explores Iranian intermediate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' perception of academic buoyancy, reflective thinking, and academic resilience in response to dynamic assessment. Data were gathered thro...

In the post-pandemic era, online learning has been the focus of many educational institutions nowadays, including English as a foreign language classes. However, with the current rapid changes in online learning, little attention has been paid to uncovering the self-reflection of pre-service English teachers in learning English online. This brief r...

The literature has widely recognized the significance of examining the influence of teacher professional identity (TPI), teacher autonomy (TA), and teacher work motivation (TWM) on teacher well-being. However, there is a noticeable gap in the research regarding the role of teacher immunity (TI) and teacher emotion regulation (TER) in TPI, TA, TWM a...

The pivotal role of teachers in delivering quality education is undeniable. However, the influence of the organizational climate on teachers' motivation, which is crucial for educational outcomes, has not been extensively explored. This research delves into the impact of the school organizational climate on teacher job motivation, with a focus on t...

Abstarct The mental health of teachers is an important issue in education. However, few studies have examined how self-efficacy (S-E), emotion regulation (ER), reflective teaching (RT), and mindfulness in teaching (MT) affect teachers' teaching style (TS). This study aimed to explore the correlation between S-E, ER, RT, and MT with TS in EFL teache...

As there have been few studies on the comparative effects of mind-mapping (MM) and concept-mapping (CM) techniques on learning English language skills and sub-skills, this survey pursued to scrutinize the impacts of these techniques on reading motivation, reading comprehension, and willingness to communicate (WTC) of Iranian EFL students. To fulfil...

The importance of studying teachers' professional well-being has significantly increased in recent years. However, insufficient attention has been given by researchers to the role of teachers' immunity, buoyancy, and emotion regulation (ER) in the classroom, all of which contribute to shaping teachers' L2 grit and mindfulness. This research aims to...

The use of self-assessing metacognitive strategies has been shown to enhance English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' achievement in face-to-face classes. However, its impact on EFL learners' achievement in online classes, which have become more prevalent due to the development of new technologies has remained largely unex-plored. This study a...

The use of psychological techniques to deal with language problems is a well-known strategy in the process of teaching foreign languages as learners can sometimes suffer from anxiety and stress, so it is essential to help students overcome the psychological barriers they face to cope with the process of learning. This study attempts to deal with pr...

In recent years, more attention has been paid to the psychological and physical well-being of educators. Nevertheless, inadequate attention has been paid to the mediator function of teacher immunity (TI), teacher emotion regulation (TER), teacher resilience (TR), and teacher autonomy (TA) in higher education. This study developed a model to demonst...

BMC Psychology is calling for submissions to our collection on the connections between cognition and emotion, including subjective reports, behavioral data, psychophysiology, and neural activity. We welcome original research–theoretical, qualitative, or quantitative–on the relationship between cognition and emotions, especially as it intersects wi...

psychology has helped us provide new educational experiences and measure student learning, among other things. Educational psychology is now concerned with dynamic changeable states and situational reflections of the underlying constructs that directly or indirectly influence learning in general and language acquisition in particular. To commemorat...

This paper reports on a narrative study that delves into the emotional experiences of an EFL teacher in emergency remote teaching situated in a higher education context in Indonesia. Data for this study were garnered from in-depth interviews during a two-month period. Anchored by Hargreaves' (2001a) emotional geographies on physical, moral, sociocu...

In this collection, BMC Psychology provides a venue for new research covering all aspects of digital psychology. Our goal is to expand the breadth of knowledge offered by the scholarship and provide a platform that could help laypersons manage a technology-laden lifestyle. We welcome submissions that cover all aspects of this collection topic. Some...

It is widely accepted in the literature that demotivation among second language (L2) learners can be caused by a variety of factors, such as Academic resilience (AR), critical thinking (CT), academic emotion regulation (AER), and Academic self-esteem (AS-E). However, there has been a lack of research into the associations between AR, CT, AER, and A...

The contributions of computer self-efficacy (CSE) to university students' learning anxiety (LA) in online classes (OCs) has largely remained unexplored in the higher education context of Iran. Thus, this mixed-methods study aimed to inspect the correlation between Iranian university students' CSE and LA from both quantitative and qualitative perspe...

The teacher's professional identity (TPI) defines their perception of how to behave in their teaching profession, and it may have a significant role in determining their place in educational advancement. Yet, the moderator influence of L2 Teacher Grit (L2TG), Critical Thinking (CT), Teacher Resilience (TR), and Teacher Self-efficacy Beliefs (TS-EB)...

Although Dynamic Assessment (DA), rooted in Vygotsky's (1978) Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) notion, has been extensively researched in teaching English as a foreign language, it has remained largely unexplored in teaching Arabic as a foreign language. To bridge this long-lasting gap, this study purports to investigate the effects of DA on impr...

Reflective teaching (RT) and emotion regulation (ER) empowers teachers to observe and evaluate themselves. Despite the long history of RT and ER, little is known about how they can influence teacher work engagement (WE). Thereby, the current research aimed at examining a structural model of English as a Foreign Language university professors’ RT, E...

The use of psychological techniques to deal with language problems is a well-known strategy in the process of teaching foreign languages as learners can sometimes suffer from anxiety and stress, so it is essential to help students overcome the psychological barriers they face to cope with the process of learning. This study attempts to deal with pr...

It is evident that the ongoing development of new digital technologies has paved the ground for gaining knowledge and skills in the virtual environments. Over the last decades, learning in virtual environments has been extensively welcomed across the globe. A lion’s share of this extensive popularity is due to the outstanding advantages of learning...

Teachers, as the center of the class, can make positive changes in their students' lives; they should be equipped with skills that will allow them to do their jobs effectively. The inclusion of productive immunity (i.e., the procedures that instructors go through to devise protective mechanisms against the effects of undesirable disruptions that mi...

The current research investigates the influence of colors in workbooks on the creativity, enjoyment, and language growth of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. In response to the recognized need for innovative approaches in EFL education, the research explored the psychological impact of colors on cognitive processes and emotional respons...

As university professors' emotion regulation (ER) plays a pivotal role in their efficacy, it is essential to explore if it is significantly correlated with work engagement (WE), self-efficacy, and anger at the workplace. To respond to the call, this research inspected the contributions of university professors' ER to their WE, self-efficacy, and an...

Emerging as a novel instructional approach, Active Learning (AL) is predicated on paving the way for students to actively explore knowledge and reflect on the learning processes. Despite its robust theoretical foundations, AL has rarely been implemented by English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers in the Iranian context. A lion's share of this h...

With the emergence and dissemination of the COVID-19 pandemic and the transformation of education to online classes, it is important to explore the effects of online learning on EFL learners' psychological factors in the Iranian EFL learners. Hence, this study aims to explore the effects of online learning on EFL learners' motivation, anxiety, and...

Reading is an essential skill for students to perform effectively and successfully in any academic setting. This skill is vital for foreign language learners as it provides chances for students to be exposed to English in input-poor settings. English as a foreign language students’ reading skills in diverse contexts remain substandard due to the la...

It is evident that the ongoing development of new digital technologies has paved the ground for gaining knowledge and skills in the virtual environments. Over the last decades, learning in virtual environments has been extensively welcomed across the globe. A lion's share of this extensive popularity is due to the outstanding advantages of learning...

It is deemed that teachers' job performance is highly entangled with the psycho-emotional constructs, such as reflective teaching (RT), emotion regulation (ER), and immunity (i.e., the processes through which teachers try to come up with a defense mechanism to buffer the effects of unpleasant disturbances that might threaten their motivation to tea...

While several studies have addressed the interconnections between self-assessment and academic stress, much uncertainty still exists about the mediating role of coping styles in this interplay. Therefore, this research aimed to determine the mediating role of coping styles in the relationship between the core of self-assessment and academic str...

A.V. Aids are vital for quality education. Quality education can be enhanced via A.V. Aids. The study was descriptive. The population of the study consisted of (N = 1650) respondents (Secondary school male and female teachers) in districts Bannu and Lakki Marwat in which (n = 330) respondents were taken as samples of the study. The main purpose of...

Developing English reading fluency (ERF) is challenging due to cross-linguistic differences between L1 and L2. This study replicated, with modifications, prior study of "syn-tactic enhancement and secondary school EFL Students' reading fluency in South Korea." The current project investigated the impact of visual-syntactic text formatting (VSTF) on...

The L2 language teaching tradition has been exposed to tremendous changes, especially throughout the twentieth century. Perhaps more than any other discipline, this tradition has been practiced, in various adaptations, in language classrooms all around the world for centuries. In the Western world, in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, foreign lan...

This study explores the potential of podcasting and blogging in cultivating advanced EFL learners’ reading comprehension (RC) gains, as well as their perceptions of their effectiveness in improving their RC gains. For this purpose, three intact female classes (n=20) were selected using a convenience sampling method from Pooyesh Language Center in B...

The present study sought out to examine the relationship between Iranian EFL teachers' professional competence and job performance quantitatively and qualitatively. To this end, a total of 330 EFL teachers, including males (n = 185) and females (n = 145) for the quantitative part, as well as a sample of 25 high school English teachers, consisting o...

The literature indicates that the effects of sources of demographic biases on fairness in classroom assessment (CA) are under-researched in the Iranian higher education context. Hence, this study aims to explore the Iranian university teachers' perceptions of the effects of demographic biases (e.g., gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic (SES)) on th...

Owing to the limitations of linguistic modes to portray aptly L2 learners' metaphors of language learning experience, growing attention has been paid to taking advantage of other modes like visual ones to ameliorate this concern. Hence, the present study sought to explore images and metaphors Iranian EFL learners may have in mind about the essence...

Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic is triggering a public health emergency and crisis on a large scale, with far-reaching effects and severe damage to all aspects of politics, economy, cultural and social life, and health. Consecutive outbreaks over the past nearly 2 years of “living with COVID-19” have forced most schools to physically close, resulti...

The educational psychology research has witnessed significant changes within the last decades. The evolving nature of educational psychology has also been well portrayed in SLA research over the course of time, and the advancements in individual differences as well as educational and personality psychology have given impetus to a broad line of rese...

Though many studies have been conducted on the effects of self-assessment on L2 learning over the last decade, none has investigated how self-assessment reports lead to improving L2 learning. Thus, this study aims to disclose how self-assessment reports improve Iranian high school students' writing skills and their perceptions of the effectiveness...

Although Dynamic Assessment (DA), rooted in Vygotsky’s (1978) Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) notion, has been extensively researched in teaching English as a foreign language, it has remained largely unexplored in teaching Arabic as a foreign language. To bridge this long-lasting gap, this study purports to investigate the effects of DA on impr...

Recent developments in the field of education have led to a renewed interest in the mediating role of critical thinking abilities (CTA) in the relationship between language learning strategies and the intermediate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ writing performance. Oxford Placement Test (OPT) was run to homogenize the participants, a...

The L2 language teaching tradition has been exposed to tremendous changes, especially throughout the twentieth century. Perhaps more than any other discipline, this tradition has been practiced, in various adaptations, in language classrooms all around the world for centuries. In the Western world, in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, foreign lan...

The current research examined the impact of the Student Team Achievement Division (STAD, a structured cooperative learning method) and flipped learning on improving students' expository writing skills and their perceptions about learning. The study was carried out in 11 weeks and employed a pretest/posttest quasi-experimental design through which t...

a shahrekord university, shahrekord, iran; b department of english, islamic azad university, shahrekord, iran; c Kerman university of Medical sciences, Kerman, iran ABSTRACT The current research examined the impact of the Student Team Achievement Division (STAD, a structured cooperative learning method) and flipped learning on improving students' e...

Much empirical research on textbook analysis has been undertaken. However, little evidence with regard to the adoption of SLA findings in the textbook analysis was reported, particularly for the Indonesian EFL textbooks. To fill this void, this study aimed at analyzing a textbook endorsed by the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture , ''Baha...

This study aimed to analyze the effect of problem-based learning on metacognitive abilities in the conjecturing process of junior high school students. To reach this purpose, a mixed-methods design, which is a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, was used. The quantitative method was used to analyze the metacognitive abilities of th...

After the publication of World Declaration on Education for All and Framework for Action to Meet Basic Learning Needs by UNESCO in 1990, particular attention has been devoted to the quality of students’ learning. One of the principal ways to meet this objective has been educational measures where David Carless introduced learning-oriented assessmen...

Teacher's job satisfaction is a crucial factor making objectives realized in an education system. It is deemed that teachers' job satisfaction is affected by various factors. This study aims to investigate if Iranian EFL teachers' job satisfaction is affected by gender, education level, teaching experience, and service location factors. For this pu...

Circulation of scientific discoveries occurs in various discourse communities. Adopting an audience-oriented view of writing (Hyland, 2010) and drawing on the appraisal theory (Martin & White, 2005), the current study aimed to explore the evaluative strategies psychologists would use to share their specialist knowledge with scholarly and non-schola...

Though many studies have been conducted on the effects of self-assessment on L2 learning over the last decade, none has investigated how self-assessment reports lead to improving L2 learning. Thus, this study aims to disclose how self-assessment reports improve Iranian high school students' writing skills and their perceptions of the effectiveness...

Although it has been over three decades that teachers' professional competence has gained considerable attention, its relationship with and effects on job satisfaction has remained unexplored in the EFL context of Iran. Thus, the present mixed-methods study aims to explore the correlation between Iranian EFL teachers' professional competence and jo...

Vocabulary as an inseparable part of language learning has a vital role in communication, which requires to be taught in new approaches. A quasi-experimental method was used to achieve the aims of the current study. In doing this, 48 Iranian female adolescent elementary learners (13–17) were assigned based on the Oxford Quick Placement Test from 70...

Vocabulary as an inseparable part of language learning has a vital role in communication, which requires to be taught in new approaches. A quasi-experimental method was used to achieve the aims of the current study. In doing this, 48 Iranian female adolescent elementary learners (13-17) were assigned based on the Oxford Quick Placement Test from 70...

This research aimed to investigate the various aspects of EFL teachers’ professional development through Continuous Professional Development (CPD). Hence a study involving 83 EFL teachers from different socio-economic, multi-cultural, educational, and disciplinary backgrounds was conducted to ascertain their attitudes, perceptions, and feedback on...

The portfolio assessment is a purposeful and systematic collection of students’ work that is intended to show progress over time. The researchers employed the Oxford quick placement test, autonomy questionnaire, and topic-based paragraph writings as the pretest and posttest. The design of the study was quasiexperimental. To this end, researchers ch...

e portfolio assessment is a purposeful and systematic collection of students' work that is intended to show progress over time. e researchers employed the Oxford quick placement test, autonomy questionnaire, and topic-based paragraph writings as the pretest and posttest. e design of the study was quasiexperimental. To this end, researchers chose 12...