the main purpose of this paper has been to predict english students’ academic achievement on the basis of achievement goals, motivational –usefulness beliefs and the kind of mobile usages. the population of the study consisted of english language students in the faculty of foreign language at isfahan university from both undergraduate and graduate levels in 2011-2012. by applying a random sampl...

AbstractThis study aims to highlight the key roles played by metacognitive strategies training in the development of listening comprehension skill and self-regulation strategies of EFL learners. The participants of this study (N = 60) were female Iranian students assigned to two groups of experimental and control in Kish English Language Institute. Learners in the experimental group recei...

in recent years, language-learning research has been more concerned with factors that may affect the choice of learning strategies among learners. in studies conducted by cohen (1990), ehrman and oxford (1995), macintyre and gardner (1989) and reid (1987), these factors have been identified as motivation, gender, learning style, previous experience, and personality type. this study attempts to ...

Language learning strategies, “the techniques or devices which a learner may use to acquire knowledge” (Rubin, 1975, p. 43) or more pertinently “complex, dynamic thoughts and actions, selected and used by learners with some degree of consciousness in specific contexts” (Oxford, 2017, p. 48), have been widely researched and discussed for more than forty years since the mid-1970s. Shifting the fo...

Mobile technology offers great potential for university students’ language learning. Numerous studies have been conducted on utilizing mobile in learning classroom. However, using it self-initiated and self-directed outside class remains to be explored. The present study employed the integrative model of behavior prediction investigate relationships between attitude, subjective norm, self-effic...