Grounded on Hofstede's (1986) dichotomous model of collectivism/individualism, this study explored Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers' cultural identity. A sequential mixed methods procedure was adopted to examine their cultural orientation and the impact of length of experience on their degree of propensity to absorb the target language culture. A total of 120 female and male...

The purpose of this study was to explore the predictors of negative attitudes towards learning English from L2 learners’ points of view. A mixed methods research approach was adopted with a sequential exploratory design, followed by an endorsement phase. Eighteen high school students in Fars province (Iran) were interviewed on the sources of negative attitudes towards learning English. Based on...

This mixed-methods sequential explanatory design investigates disciplinary learning gains when engaging in modeling and simulation processes following a programming or a configuring approach. It also investigates the affordances and challenges that students encountered when engaged in these two approaches to modeling and simulation. 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ; View this a...

Mixed-signal VLSI design provides a tradeoff between the fast and compact but fixed analog implementations of neuro/fuzzy feedforward algorithms and the programmable but area and power consuming digital counterparts. In this paper, a sequentiality study of such systems is performed. Basic blocks for sequential mixed-signal neural and fuzzy computing are proposed, and two sequential example proc...