Hamid Marashi

[ 1 ] - EFL Teachers’ Language Proficiency, Classroom Management, and Self-Efficacy

This study explored the relationship among EFL teachers’ self-efficacy, language proficiency, and classroom management. A total of 110 Iranian EFL teachers of different levels of high schools and private language schools in Tehran participated in this research. The data were collected through two questionnaires and one test: the Teacher Self-Efficacy Scale and a sample TOEFL were administered i...

[ 2 ] - EFL Teachers’ Beliefs and Motivational Strategies

This study explores the relationship and interconnections between EFL teachers’ beliefs and their motivational practices in the classroom. The present study combined qualitative and quantitative methods of research. First, the motivational practices of 30 teachers in two private language schools in Tehran were explored with a classroom observation instrument, the Motivation Orientation of Langu...

[ 3 ] - Developing and Validating a Questionnaire to Assess Critical Discourse Analysis Practices among EFL Teachers

The present study was an attempt to investigate to what extent Iranian EFL teachers practice critical discourse analysis in the English language classroom during their teaching. To reach this aim, a 27-item questionnaire was designed and administered among 120 male and female Iranian English teachers in different language schools in Tehran. Following descriptive statistics through which the mea...

[ 4 ] - Student Teams Achievement Divisions and Think-Pair-Share: Which Works Better for Listening?

This study was an attempt to investigate the comparative impact of Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD) and Think-Pair-Share (TPS) on EFL learners’ listening. Accordingly, 60 female EFL learners selected from a larger group of 90 learners based on their performance on a sample piloted Preliminary English Test (PET) who studied at a language school in Tehran were randomly divided into two ...

[ 5 ] - Using Concept Mapping and Mind Mapping in Descriptive and Narrative Writing Classes

This study was an attempt to investigate the comparative impact of concept map and mind map instruc- tion on EFL learners’ descriptive and narrative writing. To fulfill this purpose, 60 intermediate EFL learners were selected from among a total number of 100 through their performance on a pretest, i.e., a piloted sample Cambridge Preliminary English Test (PET). T...

[ 6 ] - Student Teams Achievement Divisions and Think-Pair-Share: Which Works Better for Listening?

This study was an attempt to investigate the comparative impact of Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD) and Think-Pair-Share (TPS) on EFL learners’ listening. Accordingly, 60 female EFL learners selected from a larger group of 90 learners based on their performance on a sample piloted Preliminary English Test (PET) who studied at a language school in Tehran were randomly divided into two ...

[ 7 ] - EFL Teachers’ Language Proficiency, Classroom Management, and Self-Efficacy

This study explored the relationship among EFL teachers’ self-efficacy, language proficiency, and classroom management. A total of 110 Iranian EFL teachers of different levels of high schools and private language schools in Tehran participated in this research. The data were collected through two questionnaires and one test: the Teacher Self-Efficacy Scale and a sample TOEFL were administered i...

[ 8 ] - EFL Teachers’ Beliefs and Motivational Strategies

This study explores the relationship and interconnections between EFL teachers’ beliefs and their motivational practices in the classroom. The present study combined qualitative and quantitative methods of research. First, the motivational practices of 30 teachers in two private language schools in Tehran were explored with a classroom observation instrument, the Motivation Orientation of Langu...

[ 9 ] - The Relationship between L2 Listening Comprehension and Listening Fatigue among Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners

Listening is referred to by many scholars as the most important as well as the most complicated skill in the language, which can cause mental fatigue in the learners. This study was an attempt to investigate the relationship between L2 listening comprehension and listening fatigue among Iranian EFL learners. For this purpose, 86 intermediate and upper-intermediate Iranian EFL learners randomly ...

[ 10 ] - بررسی سوگیری در سوالات درک مطلب آزمون مقطع دکترای رشته زبان انگلیسی تحت سنجش تشخیصی شناختی

در چند دهه اخیر، بررسی سطح توانایی در آزمون های سرنوشت ساز از دیدگاه سنجش تشخیصی شناختی مورد توجه محققان ارزشیابی و سنجش و اندازه گیری قرار گرفته است. در این راستا، مدل های تشخیصی شناختی میزان تسلط و عدم تسلط آزمودنی ها را با خصیصه های چندگانه مورد بررسی قرار می دهد. بدین منظور، هدف تحقیق حاضر بررسی کنش افتراقی سوال و کنش افتراقی خصیصه در آزمون ورودی زبان عمومی مقطع دکترای زبان انگلیسی می باشد....

[ 11 ] - Using Cooperative Group Feedback and Cooperative Group Writing in Writing Classes

The present study compared the effect of cooperative group feedback and cooperative group writing techniques in writing classes. Accordingly, 90 male and female intermediate English language learners sat for a sample piloted Preliminary English Test and 60 who scored one standard deviation above and below the mean were selected as the main participants. Both groups were taught the same course b...

[ 12 ] - Selecting the Best Fit Model in Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment: Differential Item Functioning Detection in the Reading Comprehension of the PhD Nationwide Admission Test

This study was an attemptto provide detailed information of the strengths and weaknesses of test takers‟ real ability through cognitive diagnostic assessment, and to detect differential item functioning in each test item. The rationale for using CDA was that it estimates an item‟s discrimination power, whereas clas- sical test theory or item response theory depicts between rather within item mu...