Mohammad Hossein Arefian

Imam Khomeini International University

The significance of collaborative learning (CL) for enhancing the quality of the learning environment and academic achievement among students needs to be investigated. The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to determine the effect of CL on the learning environment and academic achievement of graduate students in the field of educational leader...

Teachers' professional development has been a widely discussed matter in the literature. Thus, a diverse range of frameworks was introduced to enhance teachers' knowledge, experience, and skills. One such significant tool to boost teachers' knowledge and competence can be collaborative action research (CAR). Although action research and collaborati...

Reflective practice and noticing can be regarded as two essential concerns for novice teachers’ survival and development in their first practices. Therefore, this study was an attempt to explore how reflective practices activate novice English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers’ noticing. To that end, we conducted an instrumental case study to ex...

Computer-assisted language assessment literacy (LAL) has gained momentum in English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching since computer-based education became particularly common in language education. As EFL teachers play a critical role in administering computer-assisted language assessments, Iranian EFL teachers need to learn, relearn, and impro...

Since teacher work engagement is argued to substantially affect education quality and learners’ performance, unveiling the factors affecting teacher engagement is of high significance. As an attempt to explore the antecedents of this construct in English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) teachers, we tested a structural model of work engagement based on...

Given the challenging nature of large-scale standardized assessments due to the complexities, it is vital to obtain equitable assessment practices for enhancing English language learning and ability during instruction and course of study. Moving beyond standardized tests, we can use alternative assessment to incorporate learning, instruction, and m...

Teaching can be quite challenging during the initial years of a teaching career for many beginning teachers, specifically when teachers feel alone, unsupported and unmonitored due to the absence of supervisors and mentors at school. Thus, this research explored 10 Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) beginning teachers who struggle to teach...

English language teaching is considered as an anxiety-provoking profession for the novice members of the teaching community. Indeed, their perceptions and practices might be influenced by this variable. Despite the full attention allocated to the English learners’ anxiety, teachers’ anxiety seems to have remained untouched. The current study attemp...

This article conducts a comprehensive Multimodal Discourse Analysis (MDA) to examine the intricate relationship between images and texts in Persian and English advertisements, with a specific focus on logico-semantics. The study aims to unravel how linguistic and visual elements collaboratively construct meaning and communicate persuasive messages...

Besides numerous positive feelings experienced during first practices, beginning teachers sometimes face challenges, experiences, and situations that produce negative emotions that can lead to attrition and burnout. Thus, the purpose of this study is to investigate how beginning teachers’ affective reflective practices can be a great tool for monit...

The sudden shift to online teaching following the outbreak of COVID-19 has confronted English language learners with numerous challenges. The students' perceptions and practices in online learning environments might be influenced by their technology-oriented abilities to survive in the current educational predicament. The current study elucidated t...

Pre-service teachers face numerous challenges as beginner teachers at schools during their first practices. Therefore, teachers must reflect on their practices to solve problems and develop professionally. There are several ways to reflect on practices. Collaborative action research (CAR), as a mode of inquiry, is a method of inquiry to explore its...

During the Covid-19 pandemic, student teachers had to master, reflect, and evaluate individually due to the remote online learning process. Self-assessment literacy and self-directed reflection have turned into tools for autonomous learning during unmonitored online learning processes. An investigation of student teachers’ self-assessment literacy...

The current study attempted to investigate and compare the perceptions of Iranian in-service hard disciplines, soft disciplines, ad English teachers of their prognostic, formative, and summative assessment literacy. To this end, a total number of 282 high school teachers (94 teachers from each disciplinary groups) were asked to complete the modifie...