Fatemeh Khonamri

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• PhD
• Professor (Assistant) at University of Mazandaran

A wide array of studies has shown that corrective feedback (CF) in the process of language learning is fruitful. In the present interview Dr. Lawrence J. Zhang, a professor of linguistics-in-Education at The University of Auckland, New Zealand, shares some of his contributions to the role of CF as a metacognitive support in learning and assessment....

Aim. While there is so much emphasis on teachers' metacognition, little is known about the role of teaching experience in teachers' metacognition and their instructional practices. Therefore, the current study aimed to provide new insight into the extent to which experience in teaching might predict teachers' metacognition or their awareness of eac...

Thesis. This study explores three important concepts in the field of language teaching. The purpose is to investigate whether reading circles are effective means of improving students’ reading motivation and engagement. Concept. To this end, using a qualitative design, 27 students of English language and literature from the University of Mazandaran...

The present study reports on how peer modelling with collaborative ground rules may contribute to the pair dynamics of one intermediate‐level English L2 learner when interacting with peers of the same as well as higher proficiency levels. The study was one‐semester long (i.e., nine sessions) and our pair talk data were collected from an intact clas...

Language assessment is a field which has been gained increasing recognition in the last few years. Because of this, in the present interview Dr. Christine Coombe shares some initiatives related to language assessment that have been carried out in the Middle East. She shares her views about the different assessment procedures/strategies she generall...

Thesis. Today’s students are very much influenced by globalisation and advances in technology. This has brought about some changes in the attitudes and perceptions of the new generation of students which are worthy of attention. The present study aimed to shed light on one such shift of focus and explored Iranian literature students' preferences fo...

The current study aimed at investigating distance education barriers within Iraqi universities. The design of the study was quantitative in nature and for this purpose, 150 Iraqi university teachers and students participated in this study. The universities were from all around Iraq. The participants were both male and female. The students’ age rang...

Interview-English Language Testing Society (ELTSociety) Intercultural Competence Assessment on language proficiency testing https://eltsociety.org/testing-in-10-dr-fatemeh-khonamri-and-mr-mohammed-kazemian/ https://youtu.be/asvaNUQehNI

Intercultural Competence Assessment (ICA) has recently become a central issue in applied linguistics in general, and language testing and assessment in particular. The present paper aims to investigate the difference between native and non-native assessment experts' beliefs about incorporating ICA in the Language Proficiency Assessment (LPA). Basic...

Professor Hossein Farhady is an outstanding English Language Teaching (ELT) scholar in the field of applied linguistics, in general, and aspects of language testing and assessment, in particular with the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and English as a Second Language (ESL). He has been teaching various courses on language testing and assessmen...

This explanatory mixed-methods study investigated the use of bilingual students' linguistic repertoire for teaching and clarifying grammar. A repeated-measures design was used in which the quantitative data were complemented with follow-up qualitative data. Data were collected in six treatment sessions and from twenty-five all-male twelfth-grade st...

The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic has brought about many changes in the fields of English language testing and assessment as online remote options were quickly developed and implemented. Still, the need for the sound application of foundational principles in the fields of language assessment and testing remains unchanged. This conference...

Aim. The paper aims to investigate the students interactions engaged in mindful tasks in an English reading classroom. It attempts to explore whether there is any connection between being mindful and having a good interaction. Methods. For the research a case study approach was utilised, in which eight BA students majoring in English language and l...

The study explores Iranian English teachers' perceptions of the importance of critical thinking skills and the extent to which they practice their beliefs in real classroom setting. As a secondary purpose, the study discovered the possible hindrances in the way of implementing critical thinking in reading classes. Using a sequential mixed-methods d...

The present research tries to investigate the impact of teaching Ground Rules (GRs) on EFL learners’ quality of interaction while they are implementing Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR). To this purpose, five Iranian EFL intermediate learners who were learning English language in an institute in Iran were selected. In this study, after three se...

The influence of globalization on applied linguistics has recently generated considerable debate. With the advent of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) at the start of the twenty first century, many theoreticians and practitioners have accentuated the ICC perspectives and its incorporation into teaching language skills. This mixed method...

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) with its strong theoretical bases and emphasis on meaningful and interactive use of language has received substantial attention in the context of foreign language teaching. The present study investigated the extent to which TBLT was incorporated into the textbooks and the extent to which teachers were aware of it...

Homework assignments provide a channel of communication between students and teachers especially in an EFL context where there is little exposure to English language out of the classroom context. Thus, exploring attitudes and homework features may provide teachers with useful information to know how to plan their homework assignments to improve stu...

The common widespread interest in the socio-cultural aspect of language learning among applied linguists has made ESL researchers draw attention to learners' motivation and autonomy in the European and Asian educational circles. The rationale of this study is to pinpoint the relationship between EFL learners’ motivation and autonomy. To gather rele...

Research on the relationship among language learning strategy, language learning beliefs and autonomy abounds in the literature. However, few studies have explored the possibility of promoting learners’ autonomy and changing their beliefs through instructing language learning strategies in a collaborative manner. In addition, most of the earlier in...

Introduction. The predisposition to mindfulness and its effect on academic performance in students has been widely investigated in the past two decades. Mindfulness is defined as purposely paying attention to present moment experiences, devoid of judgment, resulting in a sense of stability and nonreactive awareness (Grossman, Niemann, Schmidt, & Wa...

The study explores Iranian English teachers' perceptions of the importance of critical thinking skills and the extent to which they practice their beliefs in real classroom setting. As a secondary purpose, the study discovered the possible hindrances in the way of implementing critical thinking in reading classes. Using a sequential mixed-methods d...

Flipped learning has emerged as a unique approach which reverses the traditional in-class lecturing and the role of homework and classroom activities. Using Wen’s Output-driven/Input-enabled instructional model which is well embodied in flipped learning, the present study attempted to assist learners to develop their critical thinking skills throug...

The emergence of dynamic assessment (DA) in applied linguistics has opened new horizons in second language acquisition (SLA) and language assessment. This quasi-experimental study determined the effect of DA in fostering Iranian EFL learners' depth of vocabulary knowledge through critical reading. A total of 61 upper-intermediate EFL learners were...

This study is a sociocultural investigation of the reasons why teachers use L1 in L2 classes through different classroom “modes” (Walsh, 2011). So far, a few studies regarding L1 have focused on L1 use in different classroom contexts, and none have used Walsh’s model of classroom modes. To this end, the present study used Walsh’s model which quarte...

The main purpose of this research was to investigate the impact of Dynamic Assessment-based instruction on the development of critical reading through an interventionist approach and based on quasi-experimental research design. For selection purposes, PET (Primarily English Test) was used and 61 male students were chosen out of 80 male students. 30...

p>This study attempted to examine the effects of an ER program accompanied by reading logs on the degree of critical thinking skills of sophomore English literature students at the University of Mazandaran. Two groups of English Literature majors formed the two experimental groups of the study in which only the former kept guided reading logs, whil...

The main purpose of this research was to investigate the impact of Dynamic Assessment-based instruction on the development of critical reading through an interventionist approach and based on quasi-experimental research design. For selection purposes, PET (Primarily English Test) was used and 61 male students were chosen out of 80 male students. 30...

The purpose of this study was to determine how collaborative strategic reading may increase critical reading of EFL students at the intermediate level. Forty students majoring in English language literature at the University of Mazandaran participated in this study. In the experimental group, the students were taught collaborative strategic reading...

This study investigated the effect of metacognitive strategy training and the degree of metacognitive knowledge on EFL learners' listening comprehension achievement. To this end and to complement the results of previous research, the participants were also involved in a self-rating process through engaging in log writing and completing a performanc...

This study aimed at investigating Iranian first-year university students' attitudes towards a specific type of cooperative learning. Thirty four students majoring in English literature at the University of Mazandaran participated in this study. The whole class was then taught how to use Collaborative Strategic Reading. Students whose reading and ac...

This study attempted to investigate the effect of form versus meaning-focused tasks added to an ER program on the development of lexical collocations among Iranian Intermediate EFL learners. To this end, 41 students of English language and literature studying at the department of foreign languages in Mazandaran University participated in this study...

This study attempted to investigate the effect of an ER program -coupled with form versus meaning-focused activities- on the development of lexical collocations among Iranian Intermediate EFL learners. To this end, 41 students of English language and literature studying at the department of English at the University of Mazandaran participated in th...

This study investigates the impacts of Dynamic Assessment and Computer Assisted Language Learning on the development of Iranian EFL students’ critical reading. Thirty-one male students were chosen in the DACALL and DANonCALL groups, and 30 students were chosen for the Non-DA group. To determine whether CALL procedures would contribute further to th...

We report an investigation on the relationship between metacognitive awareness of reading strategies and comprehension monitoring of language learners in English as a foreign language context. Participants were thirty first year university students majoring in electronics. They completed a questionnaire aimed at discerning the strategies that reade...

Research on teach er development has been the focus of attention in recent decades. The overall aim of this study was to explore the impact of read ing strategy training on high school teach ers’ reading instructional practices. The study was conducted in the EFL context of Iran. To meet this aim, four EFL high school teach ers voluntarily took par...

Previous research has revealed the influential role of teachers’ beliefs in determining their professional behavior; that is, the ways they plan their lessons, the kinds of decision they make, and the methods they apply in their classrooms. The present study aimed, first, to investigate the construct of teachers’ belief systems about reading strate...

In the present study, the relationship between ESL advanced students' beliefs, metacognition and their strategic reading performance was examined. The study was divided into two phases. In the first phase of the study, three questionnaires were used to investigate the relationship between metacognitive awareness and learners' beliefs. In the second...