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Disparity in terms of Recruitment and Salary between Monolinguals and Bilingual EFL Teachers in the Sultanate of Oman

Houman Bijani; Salim Said Bani Orabah

Volume 10, Issue 3 , July 2023, Pages 19-1

https://doi.org/10.30479/jmrels.2023.17589.2102

Abstract
  Literature in the field of TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) recruitment practices suggests that the myth of monolingual speakerism has impacted the employment methods in various countries in the world. The monolingual (native) speaker has a privileged position in English language ...  Read More

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Interactional Competence and Gender Impacts on EFL Learners’ Self-Perceptions of Its Sub-Constructs

Zari saeedi; Hossein Jajarmi

Volume 10, Issue 3 , July 2023, Pages 21-38

https://doi.org/10.30479/jmrels.2023.17942.2135

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  Even though interactional competence (IC) has been in the center of attention recently, its constructs/sub-components and influencing factors still require a profound scrutiny. The features associated with IC have indeed been probed in various realms of language learning and teaching. However, the effect ...  Read More

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Practicum and Professional Role Identity (Re)construction: A Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study on Iranian EFL Student Teachers

Mohammad Zeinali; Manoochehr Jafarigohar; Mahmood Reza Atai; Hassan Soliemani

Volume 10, Issue 3 , July 2023, Pages 39-69

https://doi.org/10.30479/jmrels.2023.18235.2169

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  The empirically-validated link between teachers’ professional role identity and explicit manifestations of teacher efficacy has resulted in a burgeoning literature on educational programs/settings influential in teacher identity formation. In an attempt to expand on this strand of research, the ...  Read More

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Scrutinizing the Utility of Flipped and Online Instructions for Ameliorating EFL Learners’ Writing Ability

Leila Dobakhti; Mohammad - Zohrabi; Sevda Masoudi

Volume 10, Issue 3 , July 2023, Pages 71-94

https://doi.org/10.30479/jmrels.2023.18587.2192

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  The present study made an endeavor to determine the degree to which online and flipped approaches to writing instruction affected the EFL learners’ writing ability. To this end, first, the researchers selected 75 intermediate-level female EFL learners in three intact classrooms of a private language ...  Read More

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Syntactic Complexity and Communicative Moves of Applied Linguistics Research Article Abstracts: A Function-first Approach

Rajab Esfandiari; Mohammad Ahmadi; Aynur Ismayilli Karakoç

Volume 10, Issue 3 , July 2023, Pages 95-117

https://doi.org/10.30479/jmrels.2023.18384.2176

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  There is currently a growing tendency to a meaning-based approach to the analysis of syntactic complexity in academic writing. While previous studies have offered illuminating insights into linguistic realizations of rhetorical structures in relation to syntactic complexity, they have typically analyzed ...  Read More

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The Role of Strategy Use Instruction in Improving EFL Learners’ Integrated Writing Ability and Their Affective State: A Mixed-Methods Study

Farhang Daneshfard; Mahboobeh Saadat

Volume 10, Issue 3 , July 2023, Pages 117-143

https://doi.org/10.30479/jmrels.2023.18047.2145

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  The integration of reading and writing has recently been of interest to researchers. This study investigated the effectiveness of instructing integrated writing (IW) strategies to EFL learners. In addition, the changes in writing self-efficacy, anxiety, and motivation were examined. To gain a deep understanding ...  Read More