Mohammad Rahimi

Associate Professor of TEFL at Shiraz University, Iran

[ 1 ] - Iranian EFL Learners’ Motivation Construction: Integrative Motivation Revisited

Although Gardner and his associates’ work was most influential in the field of L2 motivation, from the early 1990s onwards, their work has been criticized for several reasons. Some researchers claimed that integrative and instrumental orientations were no longer able to convey the complexity of the L2 motivation construct. To examine this complexity, the present study attempted to investigate t...

[ 2 ] - THE IMPACT OF LINGUISTIC AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ON THE READING PERFORMANCE OF IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS

Following innovations in intelligence and its radical changes from a unitary concept (IQ) to a multi-dimensional conceptualization, i.e. multiple intelligences and the need to design classroom activities based on the L2 learners’ cognitive styles, this study examined the impact of linguistic intelligence and emotional intelligence on the reading comprehension ability of the Iranian EFL learners...

[ 3 ] - Iranian EFL Students’ Perceptions and Preferences for Teachers’ Written Feedback: Do Students’ ideas Reflect Teachers’ Practice?

The present study-both qualitative and quantitative--explored fifty EFL learners’ preferences for receiving error feedback on different grammatical units as well as their beliefs about teacher feedback strategies. The study also examined the effect of the students’ level of writing ability on their views about the importance of teacher feedback on different error types. Data was gathered throug...