Mehdi Nasri- Educational Psychology at Texas A&M University
Mehdi Nasri
- Educational Psychology at Texas A&M University
Instructor at Texas A&M University
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Introduction
Applied Linguistics, Second Language Learning, CALL, Teacher Education
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September 2017 - June 2022
Education
February 2014 - August 2016
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Publications (47)
The popularity of integrating language and technology in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and its fundamental effect on English language speaking skills have been widely acknowledged. Learners' anxiety is expected to be improved in a web-based computer-assisted language learning environment. This study examined the effects of CALL-based i...
The popularity of integrating technology in language instruction and its fundamental effect on the language learning dimensions has been widely acknowledged, whereas learners' motivation and attitude are expected to be improved in a web-based computer-assisted language learning (CALL) environment. Therefore, this paper aimed to investigate the Iran...
This study investigated the appropriateness of socio-cultural contexts in Got It Series. To do so, a survey questionnaire was applied to elicit the teachers and supervisors' perceptions towards the Series. The findings revealed that the intercultural content of the Series was understandable and positively evaluated by the participants. However, acc...
The current study aimed to investigate listening comprehension problems and strategies used among Iranian advance EFL learners. Furthermore, this study tried to find the relationship between the participants' listening problems and strategy usage. Listening problems included input, context, listener, process, affect, and task problems while the lis...
This study aimed to study emotive words (EWs) in Persian and English short stories for children by adopting a contrastive analysis approach to find the similarities and differences between the two languages in terms of using emotive words based on different types and tokens of emotions introduced by Wierzbicka (1999) and Devon (2006). Alternatively,...
Purpose of the study: This article report’s findings from a study on the differences and similarities between experienced
and novice English language learners with regards to their personal use of VLS.
Methodology: Closed questionnaire and semi-structure interviews were applied to collect the data. The questionnaire was
distributed among 60 (30...
Purpose of the study: This article report's findings from a study on the differences and similarities between experienced and novice English language learners with regards to their personal use of VLS. Methodology: Closed questionnaire and semi-structure interviews were applied to collect the data. The questionnaire was distributed among 60 (30 exp...
Language learning strategies (LLS) refer to the processes and actions that are consciously deployed by language learners to help them to learn or use a language more effectively. Considering the importance of LLS, insufficient studies have been carried out on understanding both teachers and learners’ opinions towards using LLS in Iranian educationa...
This study tries to investigate the impact(s) of genre-based teaching (GBT) on Iranian EFL learners� listening proficiency as well as to discover if GBT equally affects the listening proficiency of EFL learners at different proficiency levels. To fulfill this objective, 84 EFL learners were chosen. They were divided into Group A and Group B. Groups...
This study compared the impacts of input-based instruction and output instruction on intermediate EFL learners' speaking skill. To this end, 54 EFL learners were selected as the participants of this research. Afterwards, both classes took a researcher-made speaking post-test. Then, one class received the instruction through output instruction and t...
Considering the vital role of comprehensible input, this study attempted to compare the effects of input with various difficulty levels on Iranian EFL learners' reading comprehension and reading motivation. To fulfil this objective, 54 Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners were selected from two intact classes (n = 27 each). The selected participan...
The current study aimed to compare the effect of teacher-assigned versus student-selected topics on Iranian upper-intermediate EFL learners' writing skill. In order to reach this aim, a quasi-experimental design was designed for data collection. A total of 70 students out of 120 were chosen based on their performance on the placement test and then...
The current study aimed to investigate listening comprehension problems and strategies used among Iranian advance EFL learners. Furthermore, this study tried to find the relationship between the participants’ listening problems and strategy usage. Listening problems included input, context, listener, process, affect, and task problems while the lis...
The current study aimed to investigate the effect of topic choice on Iranian advanced EFL learners' descriptive writing ability. A quasi-experimental design was used for data collection. A total of 60 students were selected based on their performance on the placement test and then randomly assigned into two groups, Student-Selected Topic Group (SST...
The current study tried to investigate the impact of cooperative learning (CL) on improving Iranian intermediate EFL learners’ oral proficiency motivations toward learning English. To fulfil this objective, 90 participants were selected and divided into two equal groups; one experimental and one control group. Then, the sample’s speaking skills wer...
Social media is one of the most important sources of communication in this technological age which enables the people to share their views and thoughts with other friends, relatives, colleagues, class fellows, and teachers without any problem of distance. Therefore, the main purpose of this study was to highlight the role of social media, and to co...
This paper explored the impacts of audio-visual aids among Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners on teaching listening. The investigator chosen 40homogeneous pre-intermediate learners to accomplish the study's goals and splitthem into two equal groups. The experimental groups (n=20) and a control group(n=20) were the two groups. Then an understandi...
This study aimed to investigate the impact of Swain’s push out hypothesis (1985) on promoting
Iranian EFL Learners’ reading comprehension. To fulfill, 50 homogeneous male pre-intermediate students
were chosen and randomly divided into two equal groups, namely an experimental group (n=25) and a
control group (n=25). Then they were pretested throu...
This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of cooperative learning in English language classrooms to enhance Iranian students' speaking skills and motivations. A pre-test-post-test control group design was employed to compare the impact of the cooperative learning approach with that of traditional whole-class instruction on speaking skills a...
The role and the importance of language input in developing language learning is not questioned. Input that learners receive in the learning process plays a very important role in the language acquisition. Thus, this study tried to compare the effects of different levels of input on Iranian EFL learners’ reading comprehension and reading motivation...
This study aimed to explore the effectiveness of TBLT and CBLT on Iranian Pre-intermediate EFL learners’ reading skill. Forty pre-intermediate EFL learners were pretested and then homogenized and then divided to 2 classes, namely TBLT group and CBLT group. The CBLT group received reading instruction based on CBLT, while the RBLT group received read...
Article History Keywords Accuracy Fluency Speaking skill Pictorial cues Pre-speaking strategies Intermediate EFL learners. This study examined the effect of pictorial cues on Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners' speaking accuracy and fluency. To do this study, 54 Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners were selected out of 80 students in a private...
This study intended to investigate the effect of spaced and massed distribution instruction on vocabulary learning. To fulfil this objective, 68 Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners (14–16 years) participated in 16 sessions. The participants were randomly divided in to two experimental groups; spaced distribution group (n = 34) and massed distribu...
This experimental study tried to investigates the effects of using innovative practices on Iranian EFL learners" progress in writing skill, writing dispositions and their attitude to English.
Cohesion as a major component of language ability plays a significant role in connecting the sentences and paragraphs of texts together. Rare studies, if any, investigated cohesive conjunctions in applied linguistics research articles written by Iranian and non-Iranian researchers. The present study aimed to fill this gap. To this end, one hundred...
Social media is one of the most important sources of communication in this technological age which enables the people to share their views and thoughts with other friends, relatives, colleagues, class fellows, and teachers without any problem of distance. Therefore, the main purpose of this study was to highlight the role of social media, and to co...
This research aimed to investigate the impact of creative writing activities on Iranian EFL learners’ progress in writing skill, writing dispositions and their attitude to English. One group pre and posttest design was used in the study. The study was carried out in a private English language institute. The study group was consisted of 21 female an...
___________________________________________________________________ Considering the vital role of comprehensible input, this study attempted to compare the effects of input with various difficulty levels on Iranian EFL learners' reading comprehension and reading motivation. To fulfil this objective, 54 Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners were sel...
Considering the vital role of comprehensible input, this study attempted to compare the effects of input with various difficulty levels on Iranian EFL learners’ reading comprehension and reading motivation. To fulfil this objective, 54 Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners were selected from two intact classes (n = 27 each). The selected participan...
This study tied to check the role of gender on Iranian upper-intermediate learners' speaking accuracy and fluency. Initially, out of 90 upper-intermediate learners, a total number of 25 male and 25 female learners were selected. A validated test (PET) was administered to the participants to assure homogeneity in terms of overall language proficienc...
Learning from experience is a central physiological and theoretical idea in adult language learning which has become increasingly important in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) and is closely connected to task-based language teaching (TBLT). Accordingly, this study was designed to investigate the role of experience-based learning strat...
Learning from experience is a central physiological and theoretical idea in adult language learning which has become increasingly important in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) and is closely connected to task-based language teaching (TBLT). Accordingly, this study was designed to investigate the role of experience-based learning strat...
This study tied to check the role of gender on Iranian upper-intermediate learners' speaking accuracy and fluency. Initially, out of 90 upper-intermediate learners, a total number of 25 male and 25 female learners were selected. A validated test (PET) was administered to the participants to assure homogeneity in terms of overall language proficienc...
This study tied to check the role of gender on Iranian upper-intermediate learners' speaking accuracy and fluency. Initially, out of 90 upper-intermediate learners, a total number of 25 male and 25 female learners were selected. A validated test (PET) was administered to the participants to assure homogeneity in terms of overall language proficienc...
The current study tried to investigate the role of interaction hypothesis proposed by Michael Long (1981) in the development of speaking skills of 60 Iranian EFL students studying in a private English language institute. In a quantitative research method, the speaking skill of the participants was assessed before and immediately after the English c...
Social media have gained much respect and popularity among EFL teachers who are in need to go beyond the traditional methods of teaching where teachers used to accomplish most parts of the job. Moreover, our traditional classrooms still emphasize on writing and reading at the expense of speaking. Therefore, teaching speaking represents a great chal...
The instructing of listening comprehension at Iranian EFL contexts has been done in different strategies, for example, by doing fruition, correspondence, summarizing, note-taking, etc. Anyway, the consequence of the learners' listening proficiencies doesn't demonstrate the most extreme outcome. Therefore, the current research tried to investigate t...
The instructing of listening comprehension at Iranian EFL contexts has been done in different strategies, for example, by doing fruition, correspondence, summarizing, note-taking, etc. Anyway, the consequence of the learners' listening proficiencies doesn't demonstrate the most extreme outcome. Therefore, the current research tried to investigate t...
A "Gallery Walk" is an action that permits students to examine and show their last work around a room much like artists would show their artistic pieces in a "exhibit." It is a way that learners can share their group tasks or individual responses to a content in a stress-free way with the confirmation of getting some feedback from their learning ne...
Generally speaking, writers use various resources for introducing themselves to their readers. Among these, stance and engagement discourse markers are fundamental properties which manifest the underlying interaction process between writers and readers. The present paper sought to investigate whether male and female Iranian EFL learners performed d...
This study aims to operationlise the mediation concept on L2 teacher education. Sixty-two EFL teachers at Isfahan high schools were selected, a 30-item questionnaire was employed, and T-test and one-way ANOVA were used. The findings revealed mediation roles of the teacher educators were instructional while integrative and participative roles were n...
A "Gallery Walk" is an action that permits students to examine and show their last work around a room much like artists would show their artistic pieces in a "exhibit." It is a way that learners can share their group tasks or individual responses to a content in a stress-free way with the confirmation of getting some feedback from their learning ne...
The central purpose of this study was to investigate novice and experienced teachers' pedagogical knowledge by comparing the targeted learners' academic performance. For this purpose, several instruments such as a questionnaire, an observation technique, and an interview were utilized for collecting data. From the population of teachers teaching En...
Effective reading is essential for success in learning a foreign language. EFL learners, therefore, need to master a number of reading strategies to be able to comprehend text information. Strategic reading research has already evidenced the possibility of teaching comprehension strategies to enhance learner’ comprehension and metacognitive abiliti...
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Exactly what is expected of teachers varies considerably from one school to the next...
There are about five factors to consider while lesson planning:
Not all teacher training courses include observed classroom time, and the only way to learn deeply about how the classroom works is to get up and do it with someone who can give constructive feedback on performance. As a marker of quality, a course that includes at least six hours of observed teaching practice gives a good range of practical experience, feedback and real advice on quality of delivery.
During 1960s, Noam Chomsky, in his book - Aspects of the Theory of Syntax , proposed that all languages have a common deep structure that represented core semantic relations of a sentence which is mapped onto the surface structure of the sentence.
