Behrang Mohammad-Salehi; Mehdi Vaez-Dalili
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Technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) provides a framework of teacher knowledge to integrate technology into education successfully. Applying digital technologies to TPACK in order to understand the range of language teachers’ ability levels is of considerable importance. The present ...
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Technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) provides a framework of teacher knowledge to integrate technology into education successfully. Applying digital technologies to TPACK in order to understand the range of language teachers’ ability levels is of considerable importance. The present study sought to examine Iranian EFL teachers’ perceived knowledge of Web 2.0 technologies in light of Mishra and Koehler’s (2006) TPACK framework. To this end, a structural model was put forth on the basis of interactions of the TPACK seven-factor model. The participants of the study consisted of 160 EFL teachers, who were selected through an alternative sampling procedure. The data were collected from the participants through a TPACK-EFL questionnaire. The structural equation modeling (SEM) technique was employed to analyze the pathways of Web 2.0 technology, pedagogy, and content and their interactions in the TPACK model. The results revealed that Web 2.0 technological knowledge (TK), pedagogical knowledge (PK), and content knowledge (CK), as core knowledge components, influenced the second-level knowledge bases, namely technological pedagogical knowledge (TPK), pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), and technological content knowledge (TCK) positively and directly except for one construct. Conversely, the impacts of TK, PK, and CK on TPACK were not statistically significant, and, as a result, did not work towards developing EFL teachers’ TPACK. Furthermore, TPK, TCK, and PCK were found to serve as contributing factors in the development of TPACK. Finally, the pedagogical and theoretical implications of interrelationships between the constructs and possible interpretations are discussed.
Yahya Ghelichli; Seyyed Hassan Seyyedrezaei; Ghasem Barani; Omid Mazandarani
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The relationship between student engagement and motivation has been shown to be significant. However, the nature of this association still needs to be further known. Self-regulation also has a close connection with both student engagement and motivation. The present study thus aimed at investigating ...
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The relationship between student engagement and motivation has been shown to be significant. However, the nature of this association still needs to be further known. Self-regulation also has a close connection with both student engagement and motivation. The present study thus aimed at investigating this relationship by examining the mediating role of self-regulated language learning between the four dimensions of student engagement and language learning motivation among Iranian EFL learners. As an ancillary objective, the study tried to explore the relationships between dimensions of student engagement and self-regulated language learning. The participants, selected based on convenience sampling, comprised 146 young adult male language learners learning English at the Iran Language Institute (ILI), Gorgan, Iran. The participants were given three questionnaires. In order to analyze the data, structural equation modeling (SEM) was run by using the SmartPLS software, version 2. The results of path analysis indicated that self-regulated language learning failed to mediate between the four dimensions of student engagement and language learning motivation. The findings also showed that there were positive significant relationships between self-regulated language learning and three dimensions of student engagement, i.e., behavioral, cognitive, and agentic. However, the relationship between self-regulated language learning and emotional engagement was not statistically significant.
