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Development and Validation of an EFL Self-Regulated Learning Questionnaire
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Salehi, Mohammad (Supervisor) ; Rahimi, Ali (Co-Advisor)
Abstract
Self-regulated learning, though having swept educational psychology's literature like a tidal wave (Boekaerts, 1999), and also, compared to other constructs such as metacognition and learning strategies, has remained comparatively uncharted in L2 research. One preliminary step to chart this concept is to develop questionnaires for it. With these and other things in mind, the principal purpose of this study was to develop a questionnaire in English and Persian to measure self-regulated language learning capacity and behavior of Iranian EFL learners. The development of the questionnaire was guided by two pilots (412 participants), content validation through expert judgment, cognitive...
A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Foreign Language
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Jahangard, Ali (Supervisor)
Abstract
This study aimed to explore whether an online writing system designed with the premises of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and supported by the theoretical frameworks of metacognition contributed to the improvement of Iranian university students’ academic genre-based writing performance. The study also sought to find out whether learners’ proficiency level influenced the effect of the system on academic writing. As an extension of the work reported earlier by Yeh (2014), an online writing system was developed and a sample of 30 undergraduate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students, at three levels of proficiency, studying at Sharif University of Technology in Iran were...