Mehdi Solhi

Istanbul Medipol University · English Language Teaching Department

This study sought to examine how university students' state boredom dimensions (i.e., disengagement, high arousal, low arousal, inattention, and time perception) and their boredom coping strategies (i.e., cognitive approach, behavioral approach, cognitive avoidance, and behavioral avoidance) in the classroom are mediated in relation to gender and a...

Purpose: This Q methodology study explored foreign language learners' divergent viewpoints on teachers' characteristics that contribute to unwillingness to communicate (unWTC). Design/methodology/approach: Q sorting was administered in-person with 40 Chinese undergraduate students enrolled in several Thai as a Foreign Language courses at a universi...

Although the sense of belongingness plays a major influence in fostering intrinsic motivation and psychological well-being, scant research attention has been given to English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ belongingness in relation to peers and teachers and its outcomes in L2 learning contexts. Additionally, despite the importance of emotion...

While previous studies have separately explored learner and teacher emotions in the context of second or foreign language (L2) learning, their dynamic associations over time remain underexplored. Additionally, the impact of these reciprocal interplays on learners’ communication intentions has not been taken into scrutiny in L2 research. The present...

Although enthusiasm is an important characteristic of teachers’ psychological growth, scant research attention has been given to English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers’ enthusiasm and its outcomes in the field of foreign language education. In addition, in spite of the criticality of foreign language teaching enjoyment (FLTE), little is...

The current study explored the association between EFL instructors’ cognitive flexibility (CF) and foreign language teaching anxiety (FLTA), with the mediating impact of emotion regulation strategies. In doing so, 330 participants (196 males and 134 females) voluntarily filled in a battery of scales. Results of a structural equation modeling analys...

This study used Q methodology to explore the subjective perspectives of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners regarding sources of willingness to communicate (WTC). A sample of 40 undergraduate students enrolled in an English language teaching program at a Turkish university was obtained. Based on their shared viewpoints, the participants we...

This study set out to scrutinize the interplay between 338 (218 male and 120 female) English as a second or foreign language learners’ L2 writing boredom (L2WB) and boredom coping strategies, along with the mediating role of L2 writing motivation (L2WM). Structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis indicated that L2WB is negatively associated with L...

The present study explored how negative emotional orientations (i.e., anxiety, boredom, and demotivation) may contribute to English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ willingness to communicate (WTC) in in-person and online classes. In doing so, a total of 290 university students majoring in English were recruited to fill in a set of scales. The...

This study probed the association between second or foreign language (L2) teacher well-being, emotion regulation, and L2 grit with a cohort of 172 (120 female and 52 male) EFL (English as a foreign language) university instructors. The results of multiple regression revealed that well-being and emotional regulation were significant predictors of L2...

While the sense of belonging has seen a surge of interest in the field of social psychology, there has been a scarcity of research on the construct during school placement in initial teacher education (ITE) programs. The present study set out to explore the sense of belonging experiences of three prospective English as a foreign language (EFL) teac...

The present study explored how second or foreign language (L2) teachers and peers’ academic and personal support can shape English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ L2 speaking motivation in the context of online education. In doing so, a total of 236 (96 males and 140 females) EFL university students voluntarily filled in a set of questionnair...

The present study sought to examine the association between English as a foreign language (EFL) instructors’ foreign language teaching enjoyment (i.e., personal enjoyment, student appreciation, and social enjoyment) and teacher humor styles (i.e., self-enhancing, affiliative, aggressive, and self-defeating humor styles). To examine this association...

This study sought to probe the relationship between perceived affective L2 teacher variables (i.e., teacher support, teacher enthusiasm, and teacher appreciation) and students’ L2 grit. Drawing on a quantitative research design and a sample of 285 Turkish ELT undergraduate students, we employed structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis to identif...

The paper accepted for publication in International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching. Boredom has recently become the subject of inquiry in L2 studies, which has resulted, among others, in the development and validation of several boredom-measuring scales mostly through exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor ana...

This study intended to explore the relations between 259 Turkish EFL students’ L2 grit (i.e., the persistence of effort and consistency of interest) and boredom coping strategies (i.e., cognitive approach, behavioral approach, cognitive avoidance, and behavioral avoidance) as well as the moderating role of their emotion regulation strategies, viz.,...

This study sought to explore the association between second or foreign language (L2) students’ boredom and enjoyment (i.e., personal enjoyment, teacher appreciation, and social enjoyment) as well as the mediating role of student-perceived teacher humor styles (i.e., affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-defeating) in this association. M...

This edited book contains chapters written by international humor scholars, researchers and educators on diverse aspects of (pedagogical) humor with a special focus on language education particularly English as a foreign language (EFL).

In this pre-use evaluation study, the long-term effectiveness of the contents of the English language coursebooks provided by the Ministry of Turkish National Education for high school students (i.e., 9th to 12th graders) in Turkey were evaluated, exploiting Tomlinson and Masuhara’s (2013) fifteen universal coursebook evaluation criteria. In so doi...

This study sought to evaluate the English language coursebooks used at the Turkish public elementary schools. In so doing, a series of coursebooks used in English courses of the curriculum prepared by the Turkish Ministry of National Education were evaluated, using Tomlinson and Masuhara's (2013) set of coursebook evaluation universal criteria. Res...

While there is general agreement among learners, teachers, and scholars that constructive feedback on writing is necessary to revision, there are fewer consensuses on how feedback should be given, when, by whom, and what sort of feedback is most effective (Weigle, 2014). Providing feedback on writing is generally categorized into three types: writt...

The recent improvements in technology and their integration in language learning have played a facilitating role in vocabulary acquisition. Quizlet, an online teacher-/student-friendly tool, is one of the leading applications in vocabulary acquisition. Along with the effectiveness of visualization in acquiring vocabulary, humor has been also extens...

In this study, different types of questions (i.e., choice, product, process, metaproces) being asked by two groups of ELT freshmen while conducting literature circles, one of the most useful ways to activate cooperative learning among the students, were put under a close scrutiny. The first group comprised of thirty-seven students who had directly...

The difficulty in learning vocabulary is a problem that lies in not anchoring the new items to relevant established entities in cognitive structure. Different categories of associations have been reported to aid facilitating vocabulary acquisition. Collocating vocabulary items is a type of association that is considered to be more efficient in retr...

The integration of literature and literary works has always played an undeniable role in language education. Despite the existence of a wealth of literature in non-native English-speaking countries, in the majority of the coursebooks, the entire attention is devoted to literary works of the native English-speaking countries. In this study, five cou...

Humor has often been seen as an important element in the learning process, facilitating both teaching and learning. Nevertheless, the utilization of humor in the educational setting has had its opponents. In recent years, many attempts have been made to conceptualize the various forms of humor implemented in the practice of education. Despite a myr...

Correcting and providing feedback to the written work of the learners has always been one of the hotly-debated issues over the last decades. While a group of scholars argue in favor of the effectiveness of the written corrective (CF) feedback, others question the utility and usefulness of the CF on writing of the learners. Even there seem to be few...

This study aimed to explore the relationship between Turkish English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' self-efficacy level and their opinion regarding their use of compensatory strategies (CSs). The study further searched into the most and the least frequently used CSs by Turkish EFL learners. The participants of the study were fifty university...

The present study attempted to explore the effects of spatial intelligence-one of Gardner's (1993) eight intelligences-on learning idiomatic expressions through pictures. To this end, 76 Iranian learners of English were assigned to 2 groups: pictorial and non-pictorial. Both groups were comprised of learners with low, moderate, and high levels of s...