Search Results - "Zia Tajeddin"

Critical language assessment literacy of EFL teachers: Scale construction and validation by Tajeddin, Zia, Khatib, Mohammad, Mahdavi, Mohsen

“…Critical language assessment (CLA) has been addressed in numerous studies. However, the majority of the studies have overlooked the need for a practical…”
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The Role of Learner Variables in Pragmatic Development during Study Abroad: A Systematic Review by Tajeddin, Zia, Khanlarzadeh, Neda

“…As one of the productive approaches to L2 pragmatic development, study abroad (SA) has drawn the attention of numerous researchers during the past few decades…”
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TEACHERS’ BELIEFS ABOUT CLASSROOM LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT: COLLABORATIVE DISCUSSION AS A MEDIATIONAL SPACE by Tajeddin, Zia, Aryaeian, Nafeeseh

“…In recent years, numerous studies have been conducted on language teachers’ beliefs about language assessment; however, teachers’ collaborative discussion as a…”
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Representation of inner, outer and expanding circle varieties and cultures in global ELT textbooks by Tajeddin, Zia, Pakzadian, Maryam

“…The rise of world Englishes has challenged the emphasis on native-speaker accents and cultures in English language teaching. This study aimed to investigate…”
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Non-Native EFL Teacher Educators’ Pedagogical Roles: Language Institute Managers’ Perceptions by Zamani, Zahra, Alemi, Minoo, Tajeddin, Zia

“…The pedagogical roles of teacher educators (TEs) in recruiting and educating future language teachers have recently gained attention among language researchers…”
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Construction and Validation of an Identity Scale for English Language Learners by Tajeddin, Zia, Fereydoonfar, Mahmoud

“…Although the language pedagogies of private institutes are sharply different from those of the public curriculum, scant research has been done on the identity…”
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Unpacking the Nexus between Teachers' Awareness of Pragmatics Instruction and Their Classroom Practices by Zia Tajeddin, Mehdi Khodaparast

“…Developing learners' pragmatic competence is claimed to be influenced by teachers' awareness of pragmatic instruction. However, this awareness and the way…”
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Perception of impoliteness in refusal and response to it by native speakers of English and Persian by Tajeddin, Zia, Rassaei Moqadam, Hojjat

“…Impoliteness entails the employment of strategies oriented toward attacking face and bringing about social disruption. Although research on impoliteness has…”
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Teachers' Curricular Knowledge in Teacher Education Programs: A Case of Iran's Sociocultural Context by Bagherzadeh, Rafat, Tajeddin, Zia

“…Teacher education programs can pursue the aim of helping teachers acquire the knowledge base for effective teaching. However, the representation of curricular…”
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Learner variables in the development of intercultural competence: A synthesis of home and study abroad research by Tajeddin, Zia, Khanlarzadeh, Neda, Ghanbar, Hessameddin

“…To provide insights into a wide array of individual learner variables implicated in intercultural education in home and study abroad contexts, this study…”
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English Language Teachers’ Perceived Classroom Assessment Knowledge and Practice: Developing and Validating a Scale by Tajeddin, Zia, Saeedi, Zari, Panahzadeh, Vahid

“…This study sought to develop and validate a classroom-based language assessment literacy scale to measure teachers’ perceived classroom-based assessment…”
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Language Teachers' Identity Configurations and Their Resolution Strategies for Imposed Identity by Azra Gholamshahi, Minoo Alemi, Zia Tajeddin

“…Identity conflict resolution is an essential stage in teachers' identity construction.  As there seems to be no tool to measure resolution strategies for…”
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Curricular Knowledge Base of Nonnative English Language Teachers by Rafat Bagherzadeh, Zia Tajeddin, Gholam-Reza Abbasian

“…Curricular knowledge, as one of the key components of teacher knowledge base, has received scant attention in second language teacher education. To address…”
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Native and Non-Native Teachers' Changing Beliefs about Teaching English as an International Language by Tajeddin, Zia, Atai, Mahmood Reza, Shayeghi, Rose

“…In view of the paucity of evidence on teachers' conceptions of teaching English an International Language (EIL), the present study used panel discussions to…”
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A Conversation Analysis of Ellipsis and Substitution in Global Business English Textbooks by Tajeddin, Zia, Rahimi, Ali

“…Despite the body of research on textbook evaluation from the discourse analysis perspective, cohesive devices have rarely been analyzed in English for Specific…”
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A Discourse-Historical Analysis of Two Iranian Presidents' Speeches at the UN General Assembly by Alemi, Minoo, Tajeddin, Zia, Kondlaji, Amin Rajabi

“…The present study compared speeches by Iranian President Rouhani, following a moderate political ideology, and his predecessor Ahmadinejad, a seemingly…”
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Teachers’ cognition and classroom implementation of tasks in task-supported language teaching (TSLT) by Tajeddin, Zia, Mansouri, Abbas

“…Research into language teacher cognition has expanded over the past two decades. This line of inquiry has contributed to our understanding of teachers’…”
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Toward Critical Applied Pragmatics: Moving from Postcolonial Hegemony to Decolonial Pragmatics Pedagogy by Tajeddin, Zia

“…The genesis and consolidation of criticality in applied linguistics have contributed to the reconceptualization of its defining aims and scope. This shift…”
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Teachers’ Collaborative Reflections on Classroom Materials: From Traditional Consumers to Digital Materials Developers and Teacherpreneurs by Tajeddin, Zia, Asadnia, Fatemeh

“…L2 teachers, no longer considered to be predominantly passive coursebook consumers, act as mediators between pedagogy and materials in the current era of…”
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Pragmatic motivation and willingness to communicate as predictors of L2 pragmatic knowledge by Tajeddin, Zia, Malmir, Ali

“…Abstract Although language learners' knowledge of second language (L2) speech acts is postulated to be substantially influenced by learner variables, there is…”
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