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Recognizing the importance of students’ attitudes in enhancing their educational achievements, this study aimed to examine the roles of spiritual motivation, religiosity, and L2 WTC (Willingness to Communicate) in students’ English language achievements. The study aimed to create a scale to assess students’ spiritual motivation. Additionally, it sc...
This study mainly examined the role of the combination of three senses (i.e., auditory, visual, and tactile) and five senses (i.e., auditory, visual, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory) in the correlation between electrophysiological and electrodermal responses underlying second language (L2) sentence comprehension. Forty subjects did two acceptabil...
Following the introduction of the concepts of apathy, sympathy, empathy, metapathy, and their correspondence with emotioncy, the present study aimed to present the concept of transpathy, and its respective type of concern, transvolvement, as the highest level of concern about others. Additionally, it sought to investigate which types of emotions ar...
Testing organizations are faced with increasing demand to provide subscores in addition to the total test score. However, psychometricians argue that most subscores do not have added value to be worth reporting. To have added value, subscores need to meet a number of criteria: they should be reliable, distinctive, and distinct from each other and f...
The present study aimed to investigate the role of different types of capital, including economic, social, and cultural, as well as emo-sensory intelligence (ESI) in the academic achievement of students in the two contexts of Afghanistan and Iran. For this purpose, 317 students from both countries participated in the study. They were asked to fill...
Emo-educational divorce is a newly developed concept referring to the loss of emotional investment in teaching or a particular course. It plays a vital role in guiding teachers and school administrators to minimize the detrimental effects of this phenomenon and enhance teaching quality. The present study aimed to develop a scale to measure teachers...
This study aims to find the potential relationship between emotioncy (sense-induced emotions), reading strategy use, and reading comprehension test performance among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. To this end, 514 intermediate and upper-intermediate EFL learners were asked to complete a 30-item multiple-choice reading comprehension t...
Given the significance of the test fairness, this study aimed to investigate a reading comprehension test for evidence of differential item functioning (DIF) based on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ gender and their mode of learning (conventional vs. distance learning). To this end, 514 EFL learners were asked to take a 30-item multip...
The primary aim of this study was to determine the role of psychometric intelligence (IQ), emotional intelligence (EQ), and emo-sensory intelligence (ESQ) in university students’ academic achievement. To this end, 212 university students at different academic levels, composed of 154 females and 58 males, were asked to complete the Raven’s Progressi...
Binary oppositions have long been helping humans to label what is going on around, and sometimes put them on the horns of a dilemma. Such a reflection can be traced in people’s cultures, and since language is an indispensable part of a culture, examining cultulings (culture + language) can help us understand the beliefs and values of a given societ...
Effective interaction between teachers and learners plays a crucial role in the learning process. In order to create positive emotions and motivation for learners in the classroom environment, there should be a mutual relationship between the sender of the message, namely the teacher, and the receiver of that message, namely the student. Due to the...
Introduction: Depending on the frequency of encounters and the emotions involved, people develop different conceptualizations of a phenomenon. Method: The authors of the present study, therefore, have utilized the concept of emotioncy to introduce the emotioncy profile, in which emotions about a given concept and their frequencies can be considered...
Interactions among headmasters, teachers, parents, and students play a significant role in achieving educational goals. The culture of education depends on the way language is used in interacting with students. It is the language that shapes students’ thinking, and changes their beliefs at schools and universities. Examining the discourse such peop...
This study aims to explore English language proficiency tests of Iran’s Ministry of Higher
Education and universities by analyzing the needs of the participants (PhD candidates and graduates) and then propose a standard and uniform test. To this end, after thematizing the qualitative answers obtained through semi-structured interviews with 30 facu...
مهارت نوشتاری در پرورش تواناییهای زبانی، درک و فهم، برقراری ارتباط با دیگران و بیان احساسات زبانآموزان نسبت به زبان فارسی نقش مهمی دارد. در پژوهش حاضر بهمنظور کیفیتبخشی روش تدریس مهارتهای زبانی به غیرفارسیزبانان، فرضیۀ «نسبیت حسی» در مورد آموزش زبان بررسی میشود. فرض بر این است که درصورت درگیری حواس بیشتری از زبانآموز بههنگام یادگیری، درک ا...
ازآنجاکه شیوه ی یادگیری زبان آموزان براساس سبک های یادگیری )شنیداری، دیداری، لامسه ای، حرکتی،
انفرادی و گروهی( آنان با یکدیگر متفاوت است، هریک از آن ها با تمرکز بر حسی خاص فرآیند یادگیری را بی
میکند. اما با توجه به زمان محدود مدرس، امکان تدریس براساس سبک های یادگیری زبان آموزان در کلاس
واحد وجود ندارد و او باید شیوه ی تدریسی را برگزیند که برای همه...
آموزش آواشناسی فرآیندی پیچیده است که شامل عواملی چون نیازسنجی، برنامهریزی، انتخاب الگو و شیوههای تدریس، تهیهی محتوای آموزشی مناسب، فنّ تدریس و بازخوردهای آموزشی آن میباشد. از میان عوامل مذکور به نظر میرسد انتخاب الگویی کارآمد جزو مهمترین عوامل به شمار میآید چراکه انتخاب چارچوبی مشخص و نظری کمک شایانی به تهیه و تدوین محتوای آموزشی و شیوهی تد...
هیجانات و حواس نقش مهمی را در زبان آموزی ایفا می کنند و مدرسان می تواننـد بـا ایجـاد
هیجان مطلوب و تأثیرگذاری بر حواس، توان یادگیری زبان آموزان را افزایش دهنـد . مفهـوم
»هَیجامَد« ملهم از دو واژه -هیجان + بسامد- است که بـه تـأثیر هیجانـات ناشـی از اسـتفاده
حواس در یادگیری مفاهیم گوناگون اشاره می کند و متشکل از سه مرحلة هیچ آگاهی -تهی-،
برون آگاهی -...
Teacher identity has evolved from a core, inner, fixed, linear construct to a dynamic, multifaceted, context-dependent, dialogical, and intrinsically related phenomenon. Since little research has provided an inclusive framework to study teacher identity construction, this article proposes a novel conceptual framework that includes the following com...
This article describes how the transactional analysis concept of strokes can contribute to our understanding of educational psychology and the dynamics in educational settings between teachers and students. Teachers’ stroking behavior may be influenced by several factors, including gender, age, and culture. The study described here investigates the...
Putting the principles of multisensory teaching into practice, this study investigated the effect of audio-visual vocabulary repetition on L2 sentence comprehension. Forty participants were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. A sensory-based model of instruction (i.e., emotioncy) was used to teach a list of unfamiliar vocabularies...
This study aimed at inspecting problems surrounding the concept of motivation, discovering the ontological reasons behind them, providing a comprehensive definition for motivation, and introducing a new way around the controversies through a social theory of human motivated behavior. The new theory is built on Gilles Deleuze’s conceptualization of...
The present study attempted to investigate the role of time perspectives in language teachers’ burnout and its three dimensions, including emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment. For this purpose, a group of 302 English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers were asked to fill out Zimbardo’s Time Perspective Inve...
Multisensory input is an aid to language comprehension; however, it remains to be seen to what extent various combinations of senses may affect the P200 component and attention-related cognitive processing associated with L2 sentence comprehension along with the N400 as a later component. To this aim, we provided some multisensory input (enriched w...
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A pesar de que la enseñanza se ha interpretado como una actividad profundamente emocional, se ha publicado escasa información sobre las demandas emocionales negativas que afrontan los docentes o cómo estas afectan a su bienestar. El objetivo del presente estudio es examinar la relación entre el agotamiento del profesorado, la reactancia psi...
The current systematic review summarizes the growing body of literature on the concept of emotioncy. It presents a synthesis of 61 studies discussing emotioncy related topics. The aims were to examine, interpret, and synthesize results about emotioncy to generate an in-depth and holistic discussion of the key routes of emotioncy based education and...
Due to the important role that teachers’ professional success plays in the effectiveness of their students and the education system in which they are involved, the present study investigated whether teacher stroke can predict teacher success through the mediation of students’ active and passive motivation. For this aim, a group of 437 Iranian unive...
Despite the fact that teaching has been construed as a profoundly emotional activity, scant information is revealed regarding the adverse emotional demands encountered by teachers or how these affect teachers’ well-being. The present study aimed to examine the relationship among teacher burnout, psychological reactance, and the mediating role of sp...
Introduction: Delving into the prominent role of emotions and senses in the realm of language is not something new in the field. Thereupon, the newly developed notion of emotioncy has been introduced to the foreign language education to underscore the role of sense-induced emotions in the process of language learning and teaching. Methods: The pres...
Given the fact that the process of engaging and interacting with the text is not only the function of a reader but also the text itself, the current study attempts to examine the role of the type of the word in the attentional engagement. More specifically, the present investigation aims to verify the interplay of sensorimotor information, emotions...
The influence of senses and their combinations has already proven invaluable to language comprehension studies; however, it is not clear to what extent they may add to the functional characteristics of the biphasic, language-related electrophysiological markers. Therefore, to integrate information from different sensory modalities and investigate h...
We investigated the home culture effect with respect to students’ perceptions about themselves and their instructors. This study was concerned with the cross-cultural analysis of Iranian and Iraqi students’ perceptions of teacher success, credibility, and stroke variables. Willingness to Attend Classes (WTAC) was evaluated. Two-hundred-seventy-six...
Given the association between multisensory information and inner attention, the quality of multisensory information is hypothesised to modulate the neuronal activity associated with language comprehension. To verify, we investigated the interaction effect between multisensory quality (sensory enrichment) and semantic (in)congruency during L2 senten...
نگارندگان در اثرحاضر، بهدنبال تبیین دو رویکرد فکری در حوزۀ دوزبانگی کودکان و بزرگسالان هستند تا کاربردهای دوزبانگی در آموزش و زندگی افراد دوزبانه مشخص و نمایان شوند. رویکرد اوّل، کاربرد دوزبانگی (bilingualism applied) است که به کاربردهای دوزبانگی در محیطهای گوناگون اشاره دارد. در این محیطها معمولاً کودکان زبان دوم را به شکل طبیعی میآموزند و...
Given the importance of cultural issues in different societies, scholars have introduced the ethnography of communication to examine the differences in light of language and context. Related to this theory is Hymes' SPEAKING model (1967), in which setting and scene, participants, ends, acts sequence, key, instrumentalities, norms, and genre are tak...
کتاب حاضر نظریه پردازی میباشد و محصول سالها تلاش پژوهشگران در حوزه زبان و فرهنگ می باشد که توسط انتشارات آمازون منتشر شده است.
Given their diverse cultural backgrounds, language learners should possess an
appropriate level of cultural intelligence to learn Persian as a second language. In
recent years, various students from different cultural backgrounds have joined the
education system of Iran, most of whom are non-native Persian speakers with little
previous exposure to...
Since language learners differ in terms of their preferred learning styles (auditory, visual, tactile, kinesthetic, individual, and group), they go through the learning process by relying on a specific sense. Since catering for all learning styles in a class is not feasible, a teacher should adopt a method which is of interest to all learners despi...
It has always been too arduous a task to keep track of the memory of students with Down Syndrome. However, paying attention to the strategies that can help such students with processing the given information is among the concerns intellectually disabled instructors deal with. As phonological awareness plays an important role in successful reading s...
Effective communication can be considered as a social process reflected in lexical chains. In fact, speaking can be considered as a communicative mediator which hinges on the speaker’s linguistic competence, but if the aim of a given dialogue is to have a more effective communication, one should move beyond the speaker’s subliminal intentions. The...
The significance of teaching language has motivated various studies in which many procedures have been suggested like applying literature in language teaching. Most of these studies have focused on cultural issues and the direct use or rewriting of literary texts. Yet, the aim of this study was to use the language framework applied in these texts t...
Binary oppositions have long been helping humans to label what is going on around, and sometimes put them on the horns of a dilemma. Such a reflection can be traced in people’s cultures, and since language is an indispensable part of a culture, examining cultulings (culture + language) can help us understand the beliefs and values of a given societ...
Speaking, listening, writing, and reading have a particular influence on the language learners’ improvement and paying attention to improving such skills is necessary for teaching a second language. Since speaking and listening are naturally acquired from the beginning of our lives (Brown, 2001), most of the language learners pay more attention to...
Effective interaction between teachers and learners plays a crucial role in the
learning process. In order to create positive emotions and motivation for learners in
the classroom environment, there should be a mutual relationship between the sender
of the message, namely the teacher, and the receiver of that message, namely the
student. Due to the...
eaching Persian language to non-Persian speakers has various purposes such as making them familiar with the Iranian culture and customs, establishing more interpersonal interactions, enhancing business and professional communication, and finally increasing mutual understanding between two cultures. Persian language classes and instructors play a fu...
Among the most controversial issues in language teaching is teaching grammar. Some educational approaches pay significant attention to linguistic forms and believe that language teaching is equal to teaching grammar (Nassaji & Fotos, 2011). Nowadays, a more rational approach is taken regarding teaching grammar. Learning grammar is argued to be nece...
Proverbs are short utterances in verse or prose, showing parts of the culture of people using them. They will be transmitted to the next generations and their origins can be traced. They can be considered a case of cultuling, that is (culture in language), and demonstrate the culture, worldview and the attitude of the speakers. The present study, a...
Purpose: Although action research (AR) is considered essential for teacher development in second/foreign language (L2) education, no validated scale has been designed for its measurement. With that in mind, this study attempted to develop and validate an Inventory on Teachers’ Beliefs about Action Research (ITBAR). Design/methodology/approach: For...
The close relationship between language and culture is rooted in the analysis of language and culture in historical knowledge, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and psychology. Inasmuch as the fact that language and culture are inextricably bound, examining the pivotal role of the language of a speech community can yield significant information...
The close relationship between language and culture has been highlighted by scholars in sociology, sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, psychology, and linguistics. They postulate that language is a tool to instantiate cultural concepts and delineate how individuals perceive the world. Regarding such an outstanding impetus and triggered...
Given the fact that reading is considered as a crucial language skill through which the reader can interact with the author to obtain the required information for the higher communication and participation in the current literary society (Walker in Diagnostic teaching of reading: techniques for instruction and assessment, Merril, Columbus, 2000), t...
Scrutinizing the indispensable role of the language of a speech community can yield significant information about its culture. Conceptualized under an overarching field of study, culturology of language, Pishghadam (2013) postulates how the realizations of cultuling and meta-cultuling can be entrenched in a language. Each meta-cultuling is composed...
The current study explored indications to the various dimensions of emotional intelligence (EI) of eminent contemporary Iranian literary translators to contribute to a gap in the barely investigated area of Translator Studies in the Iranian context. To this end, using secondary qualitative data, the study analyzed a purposive sample of published in...
The current study tested the likely effect of sensory involvement on the FN400 and late positive complex (LPC) responses to semantic and pragmatic comprehension of English sentences. Fifteen English language learners took part in the event-related potential (ERP) experiment and determined the acceptability of 432 sentences under congruent, semantic...
Given the significance of teacher characteristics in student motivation for class attendance, the present paper
aimed to investigate the roles of teacher success, credibility, and stroke in students’ Willingness to Attend Classes (WTAC).
To this aim, a total number of 276 undergraduate students majoring in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TE...
The primary objective of the present study is to explore the extent to which the reading comprehension items in IELTS can be answered correctly by test takers in passage out condition, that is, the passage independency of the items. Furthermore, the study makes an attempt to investigate the role of different kinds of intelligences and the use of te...
It seems that one of the factors contributing to language learners’ interest in reading comprehension texts is the sensory emotions they may have for reading topics. In this study, the association between language learners’ sensory emotions towards some topics and their willingness to read (WTR) about them was examined. To do so, 201 intermediate a...
This study aims to explore the extent to which Iranian teachers do research, and their reasons for doing so in the English as a foreign language context, with a special emphasis on action research (AR). The present study used a mixed methods design, i.e. questionnaire and interview, to gain a richer understanding of the teachers’ reasons for doing...
This study aims first to design a motivational/ demotivational pattern scale (MDPAS) for English as a foreign language (EFL) students, and then proposes a model of motivation/ demotivation in EFL education. Entire population participated in the study comprised 800 students majoring in EFL. MDPAS was designed and validated by applying confirmatory f...
Digging into the history of motivation research, we deduced that, the investigations have targeted individuals' performance as the overt indication of this invisible drive. Yet, it is hypothesized that there exists a variation of motivation which does not lead to a certain action and is only confined to one's mental engagement with a concept or act...
Digging into the history of motivation research, we deduced that, the investigations have targeted individuals' performance as the overt indication of this invisible drive. Yet, it is hypothesized that there exists a variation of motivation which does not lead to a certain action and is only confined to one's mental engagement with a concept or act...
The present exploratory study aimed to provide a more tangible and comprehensive picture of the construct of investment in language learning through investigating the issue from a quantitative perspective. To this end, the researchers followed three main phases: First, a hypothesized model of investment in language learning with six components was...
Given that willingness to communicate (WTC) as an important individual difference (ID) variable plays a pivotal role in the second language acquisition (SLA) domain and the fact that an array of factors may affect it in English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms, this study examines the relationship between the sensory emotioncy types and L2 WT...
Given that willingness to communicate (WTC) as an important individual difference (ID) variable plays a
pivotal role in the second language acquisition (SLA) domain and the factthat an array offactors may affect
it in English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms, this study examines the relationship between the
sensory emotioncy types and L2 WTC....
The development of unbiased tests is crucial in the arena of language testing in order to ensure validity. To date, studies of bias in language testing have mainly focused on factors such as gender, native language, or academic background, inter alia. However, bias may also result from psychological factors. Therefore, the present study investigate...
The inherent relationship between language and culture is a widely accepted phenomenon. While the need for research on native speakerness, culture, acculturation and deculturation and their importance in foreign language learning is ever increasing all around the world (McKay & Hornberger, 1996), unfortunately, these fields of study haven’t receive...
Given the role of emotional factors in effective teaching and inspired by a number of socio-philosophical, linguistic and psychological theories including Developmental, Individual-difference, Relationship-based (DIR) model and the concept of emotioncy, the present study is an attempt to introduce envolver as a new role for teachers. Sense-related...
Granted that senses and emotions are key components in facilitating the process of
language learning and teaching, it is essential for different models of instruction to take
language learners’ emotions into account. It is in fact believed that emotions could be
generated from the involvement of senses. A pertinent concept which juxtaposes
senses a...
The purpose of the present study was to explore the roles of teacher gender identity and stroke in teacher success. All variables were viewed from the learners' viewpoints. Three scales were used to measure stroke, teacher gender identity and teacher success. The participants consisted of 287 English learners in private language institutes. To anal...
The purpose of this study was to design and validate a scale to measure language teachers’ temporal intelligence and to explore its role in teacher burnout. To this aim, 210 English as Foreign Language (EFL) teachers, teaching at different language institutes were asked to complete two questionnaires: the newly-designed language teachers’ temporal...
Time limitation has always been considered a major problem in conducting action research (AR) in the field of second/foreign language teacher education. In order to overcome the lack of time obstacle to research engagement, a comprehensive framework was set up in this study that allowed teachers the flexibility to plan and incorporate research acti...
The purpose of this research was to examine the relevance of emotioncy in Persian dubbing preference. Emotioncy deals with senseinduced emotions which can change individuals’ interpretation. Approximately two hundred Iranian native speakers of Persian were asked to participate in the study and complete two instruments after viewing five pairs of du...
Following a number of studies on discovering the controlling dormant forces in linguistic biases, this study attempts to introduce the concept of emotioncy as a driving force in explicating the causes of prejudice manifested through biases in speech. To this end, two scales for measuring individuals’ bias and their emotioncy levels were devised and...
Considering the importance of psychological factors in learners' reading abilities, this study examines the relationship between flow, emotioncy, and reading comprehension. To this end, 238 upper-intermediate and advanced English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners were asked to take four tests of reading comprehension along with flow and emotionc...
Given the significant role of culture in communication, language researchers, among many other educationalists, have endeavored to develop strategies and techniques for teaching culture in foreign/second languages. The abundance of these strategies, nevertheless, does not seem to realize its full potential due to being a fragmented rather than cohe...
Despite the fact that the beliefs about action research (AR) are considered essential for teachers’ professional development, teachers’ beliefs about AR have not been studied in any systematic way in second language education. This study is thus an attempt to fill the gap through examining Iranian teachers’ beliefs about AR. The present study used...
