The present study compared the impact of teacher-provided and peer-provided oral assistance in the acquisition of English wh-question forms. Participants were 90 female Iranian EFL learners who constituted the 3 groups of the study: teacherassisted, peer-assisted, and a control group. Participants in the experimental groups received assistance either from the teacher or a peer during task-based...

This study reports a mixed methods design investigation into language teachers’ conception of research. The study drew on various sources of data, including teachers’ responses to questionnaires items, qualitative comments in follow-up interviews, and contributions to e-mail inquiries. Results showed that the teachers’ understanding of research is mainly associated with a standard view of resea...

abstract the present study aims at analyzing efl learners’ attitudes towards motivating factors in learning vocab-ulary. a mixed-methods approach was used to conduct the study. in the qualitative analysis, iranian efl learners’ attitudes towards learning vocabulary were investigated through a semi-structured interview en-compassing 36 participants. subsequently, a 56-item ‘motivation for voca...

Digital information adoption among the older generation is becoming interesting, and e-reading consumption an important phenomenon. The current study explores experience Pakistani X readers (Xers) through theory of planned behaviour (TPB), along with TPB model validation a larger sample. A mixed-method research design (exploratory sequential) was employed. completed in two phases; first phase q...

Recent studies conclude that higher-educated migrants experience less belonging to the residence country than lower-educated migrants, which has been dubbed integration paradox. World citizenship is a possible explanation yet left untheorized and empirically untested. We are first theorize test this mechanism for Turkish in Netherlands using mixed-methods approach. Results based on NIS2NL surve...