Yazdan Choubsaz

Sultan Qaboos University | SQU · Center for Preparatory Studies

The authors of this paper have shared insights from their recent publications in two prestigious journals to draw attention to the need for good practices in conducting syntheses in CALL. The first author discusses 148 high-visibility journal articles on data-driven learning and looks at how such papers can be analyzed as a corpus to complement and...

This symposium explored the methodology of research syntheses in CALL and its sub-fields. The presenters shared insights from their recent publications in two prestige journals – three papers published in ReCALL and one in TESOL Quarterly – to draw on the need for good practice/case studies in conducting syntheses in the field of CALL.

The 2023 EUROCALL conference was held for the second year in a row in Reykjavik on the 15th-18th of August 2023 but this time, after three years of online conferencing, as an in-person event hosted by the VIC – Vigdís International Centre, the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute for Foreign Languages at the University of Iceland, and the Árni Magnússon...

This study traces the evolution of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) by investigating published research articles (RAs) in four major CALL journals: ReCALL , Computer Assisted Language Learning , Language Learning & Technology , and CALICO Journal . All 2,397 RAs published over four decades (1983–2019) were included in the pool of data, an...

The 2022 EUROCALL conference was held in Reykjavik on 17-19 August 2022 as a fully online event hosted by the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute for Foreign Languages, the University of Iceland, and the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies. The conference theme was Intelligent CALL, granular systems and learner data. This theme reflects the...

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This paper is an initial report of the data analysis phase of a larger study that traces the evolution of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). All published Research Articles (RAs) from four major CALL journals-ReCALL, CALL, Language Learning & Technology (LL&T) and CALICO Journal-from the very first issues to the end of 2019 were downloaded...

This paper aims to describe the role played by emotions in pre-professional development in international mobility for students of the Education University of Hong Kong. The MIFPE (International Mobility and Pre-Professional Training in the Education Sector) research project focuses on an innovative mediation scheme for these students. A discourse a...

en Variations in citation practices have been studied from a wide range of perspectives. Nonetheless, little research has addressed how the interplay between disciplines and research methodologies can affect the formal representation of citations in research articles. This paper, adopting a multi‐perspective design, is an attempt to fill this void...

This study traces the evolution of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) through published Research Articles (RAs) in four major journals: ReCALL, CALL, Language Learning & Technology (LL&T), and CALICO Journal. The paper outlines the rationale and the methodology of this, which begins with downloading all 2,397 full RAs published in English,...

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This corpus-based study explores how linguistic and sociocognitive factors designate when, why, and how speakers say sorry and I’m sorry in two corpora of American spoken English; namely, Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English and Corpus of Contemporary American English. It is well-documented that a given word and its surrounding words or phras...

This study investigates the cultural content and covert syllabus of one well-known widely printed English Language Teaching (ELT) course book: Passages 1. In order to analyse the content, two coding systems the Five Dimensions of Culture and the Categories of Culture by Chao (2011) were used. The findings indicate that Passages 1 has encouraged var...

Drawing on Walsh's (2012) idea that boosting learners' contribution and interaction can play a key role in their foreign language learning, this quantitative/qualitative study tried to cast some light on the ways by which teachers, via their choice and use of language, create or block learners' contribution in direct interactions in the classroom....

This study reports on research article (RA) authors' definitional understanding and sociocultural perceptions of intertextuality and plagiarism in academic writing. To meet this end, a questionnaire, consisting of three sections, was constructed and emailed to Iranian RA authors who have published in leading international and local applied linguist...

As shifting identity and target cultural attachment act as important factors in the language learning process, this study aims to analyze the effects of learning English on the culture and identity change among Iranian EFL learners. To this end, 50 BA and 50 MA students majoring in TEFL and 10 EFL instructors participated in this study. To control...

Research on language learning motivation has been augmented in the EFL context which reflects its significance as a socio-psychological factor in learning English as a foreign language. Due to the meager amount of work done on the issue in Iran, this study tries to investigate instrumental and integrative motivation (i.e., motivational orientations...

Nowadays, learner autonomy is perceived as an unquestionable goal and integral part of language learning methodologies throughout the world. Large amounts of time, energy and money are spent on its promotion and implementation. However, learners' autonomy is studied in isolation. There are hints that autonomous teachers can be more successful in im...

Translation assists people of the globe to exchange their opinions and thoughts irrespective of the different mother tongues they use. Although every translation activity has one or more specific purposes, its main aim is to serve as a cross-cultural bilingual communication tool among people. It is obvious that appropriate use of translation in an...

This study explores different spoken strategies for transferring thoughts into speech through the use of various “manipulative” strategies to fulfill certain purposes. The data comes from 20 semi-structured interviews by two different interviews with the same participants in Kermanshah, Iran. The first interviewer, affiliated with the Ministry of E...