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Accounting for Iranian EFL Teachers' Burnout: Educational Beliefs and Teacher Self-Disclosure in Focus 伊朗英语教师职业倦怠的解释:教育信念与教师自我表露的焦点

Vision Journal of Language and Foreign Language Learning Pub Date : 2022-08-29 DOI: 10.21580/vjv11i212205

M. Ayatollahi, Ali Nemati, Al Tiyb Suliman Al Khaiyali

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Iranian EFL and Malaysian ESL University Students’ Use of Language Learning Strategies 伊朗英语和马来西亚英语大学生语言学习策略的运用

Vision Journal of Language and Foreign Language Learning Pub Date : 2022-08-16 DOI: 10.21580/vjv11i211836

Sara Kashefian-Naeeini, Nooreiny Maarof

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Academic House Style and Acknowledgement Writing: the Case of Two Ghanaian Universities 学院风格与致谢写作:以加纳两所大学为例

Vision Journal of Language and Foreign Language Learning Pub Date : 2022-08-10 DOI: 10.21580/vjv11i211658

Cecilia Agyeiwah Agyemang Owusu Debrah, Alberta Dansoah Nyarko Ansah

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Short Plays and Drama in EFL Classrooms as Perceived by Secondary School Students: the Role and Impact 中学生对英语课堂短剧和戏剧的感知:作用和影响

Vision Journal of Language and Foreign Language Learning Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.21580/vjv11i211269

D. Sari

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Critical Pedagogy in an EFL Context: Towards Solving the Definition Precision Problem 英语语境下的批判教学法:解决定义的精确性问题

Vision Journal of Language and Foreign Language Learning Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.21580/vjv11i110642

Leila Akbarpour

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Beliefs and Practices of EFL Instructors in Teaching Pronunciation 英语教师在语音教学中的信念与实践

Vision Journal of Language and Foreign Language Learning Pub Date : 2022-03-30 DOI: 10.21580/vjv11i110812

Sakineh Jafari, Mohammad Reza Karimi, Samaneh Jafari

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Instrumental and Integrative Orientations in Second Language Learning among Sudanese Students 苏丹学生第二语言学习中的工具性取向和综合性取向

Vision Journal of Language and Foreign Language Learning Pub Date : 2022-02-26 DOI: 10.21580/vjv10i29582

Adil Ishag

{"title":"Instrumental and Integrative Orientations in Second Language Learning among Sudanese Students","authors":"Adil Ishag","doi":"10.21580/vjv10i29582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21580/vjv10i29582","url":null,"abstract":"Motivation is one of the most influential factors in second/ foreign language learning. It has been traditionally classified into two types, namely instrumental motivation and integrative motivation. The latter has been claimed to have a more positive impact on the language learning process than instrumental orientations. This study sought to investigate the nature of motivational orientations among Sudanese learners of English and German. The study involved 221 Sudanese undergraduate students studying English and German, respectively. The results of the empirical investigation demonstrated that Sudanese students were more instrumentally motivated to learn English in comparison to German. On the other hand, the students in the German department had more positive attitudes towards the German community and culture in comparison to the students of the English department. Gender differences have also been identified in the department of English only, where female students had a significantly higher level of motivation and were rather integratively motivated to learn English than their male counterparts. The study concluded that both instrumental and integrative constructs are complementary and that attention should be shifted towards motivational intensity in language learning.","PeriodicalId":34159,"journal":{"name":"Vision Journal of Language and Foreign Language Learning","volume":"9 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72466968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The impact of Genre-Based Instruction on Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners’ Writing Skills 体裁教学法对伊朗中级英语学习者写作技巧的影响

Vision Journal of Language and Foreign Language Learning Pub Date : 2022-02-11 DOI: 10.21580/vjv11i110596

A. Mohseni

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Online Communication versus Face-to-Face Interaction: the Effect of Chatting Communication on Iranian EFL Learners' Oral Performance 在线交流与面对面交流:聊天交流对伊朗英语学习者口语表现的影响

Vision Journal of Language and Foreign Language Learning Pub Date : 2022-01-22 DOI: 10.21580/vjv10i28966

Samad Mirza Suzani

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The Effect of Gamified Flipped Classroom on the Improvement of Vocabulary Learning of Iranian Pre-Intermediate EFL Learners 游戏化翻转课堂对伊朗中级前英语学习者词汇学习的促进作用

Vision Journal of Language and Foreign Language Learning Pub Date : 2021-12-20 DOI: 10.21580/vjv10i28577

Farhad Fahandezh, Asieyeh Mohammadi

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