Karim Sadeghi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1088503 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karim Sadeghi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karim |
| FAMILY NAME | Sadeghi |
| SIGNATURE | SADEGHI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Urmia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1426-9997 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The unseen armour
Considered a highly stressful profession, teaching constantly exposes teachers to a myriad challenges, underscoring the critical importance of these stressors and equipping teachers with effective mechanisms to withstand these pressures. This qualitative investigation aimed to explore such mechanisms (i.e., immunity and vision) that EFL teachers in diverse school settings utilise. For this purpose, data were collected through a set of semi-struct…
Implementing practical argumentation framework as an analytic/evaluative tool in research Articles
The Implications Section (IS) of research articles serves as a vital means for conveying the significance of findings to readers. This study employs the practical argumentation framework to analyze the IS of three research articles focusing on self-regulated learning. Self-regulated learning encompasses learners' ability to set goals, monitor their progress, and reflect on their learning strategies and outcomes, fostering autonomy and effective e…
Cultural stereotypes devaluing Eastern EFL learners against their Western counterparts
This article presents an overview of common cultural stereotypes that devalue Eastern learners, particularly in contrast to their Western counterparts, and challenges the overgeneralized assumptions underlying such stereotypes. By reviewing commonly cited stereotypes and counter-evidence, this article challenges the invalid overgeneralized stereotypes, presenting empirical studies and expert opinions that demonstrate contrasting views toward the …
Language teacher motivation in an unequal world
Exploring factors affecting English language teacher wellbeing
Inside the spider’s web
Compliment Response (CR) patterns among English vs. Persian teachers
The purpose of the present study was to compare differential functioning of Iranian English versus Persian teachers in responding to compliments and to investigate the possibility of sociolinguistic transmission of speech act of responding to compliments from English culture to native Iranian Persian speakers. Following Chen and Yang (2010), we hypothesized that exposure to English would affect the complimenting behavior of Persian speakers, lead…
English as a Foreign Language Teachers’ Motivation
Drawing upon Activity Theory, this mixed-methods study explored L2 teachers’ (de)motivation factors, motivation change, and voice in adopting strategies that could motivate L2 teachers. Semi-structured interviews, a motivational timeline diagram, and a researcher-developed scale were used to collect data from 226 in-service L2 teachers. The interview data collected from 15 participants were analyzed through open, axial, and selective coding using…
Academic conflict in Applied Linguistics research article discussions
Effects of computer-assisted glosses on EFL learners' vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension in three learning conditions
The idea of English in Iran
This paper explores the place of English in Iran. To do this, we look at the social presence of English in Urmia (the capital of West Azerbaijan province, Iran). The paper draws on instances of the use of English in different contexts in Urmia, including its use in academia, business, state and private education, media, and people's ordinary lives. The idea of English in Iran is also investigated by studying a cohort of 115 English language learn…
Appropriating Difference in Ella C. Sykes'Through Persia on a Side-Saddle
This article teases out Ella Sykes’ responses to the differences she encounters in the contact zone in Persia in her much-neglected travel narrative Through Persia on a Side-Saddle (1898). The authors argue that Ella Sykes’ position/self-positioning in relation to difference is shaped by various, and at times opposing, factors, which contribute to the ambivalent nature of her representations of Persia and its people in her travel narrative. The p…
Iranian university students’ experiences of and attitudes towards alternatives in assessment
This study investigated the effect of assessment type (self vs. peer vs. teacher) on university students’ academic achievement and students’ attitudes toward them. In the main study, 82 undergraduate English-as-a-Foreign-Language students in four classes at three universities in Iran were randomly assigned into one of self-, peer- and teacher-assessment or control groups. A pre-test was designed to measure students’ initial knowledge in the subje…
Maureen S. Andrade and Norman W. Evans
Mastery of writing skills is considered a challenge for many learners including those with English as their first language. It is not that writing is difficult in itself; rather, a lack of adequately relevant and motivating instruction and response by the teacher can lead to challenges. It can be liberating for teachers to have a source supplying instructional strategies to eliminate learners’ writing problems (Harris et al. 2006). This volume is…
The Effect of Linguistic Context on EFL Vocabulary Learning
There is limited literature on the role of linguistic context in learning and remembering new vocabulary items by EFL learners. To fill this gap in literature and to further explore the relationship between surrounding linguistic context and learning, and retention of new words, this study was set out to investigate whether systematically changing the amount of surrounding context has any significant effect on learning and retention of new vocabu…
Directions and Prospects for Educational Linguistics
Professional Materials
Effects of computer-assisted glosses on EFL learners' vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension in three learning conditions
Exploring factors affecting English language teacher wellbeing
The idea of English in Iran
This paper explores the place of English in Iran. To do this, we look at the social presence of English in Urmia (the capital of West Azerbaijan province, Iran). The paper draws on instances of the use of English in different contexts in Urmia, including its use in academia, business, state and private education, media, and people's ordinary lives. The idea of English in Iran is also investigated by studying a cohort of 115 English language learn…
Language teacher motivation in an unequal world
English as a Foreign Language Teachers’ Motivation
Drawing upon Activity Theory, this mixed-methods study explored L2 teachers’ (de)motivation factors, motivation change, and voice in adopting strategies that could motivate L2 teachers. Semi-structured interviews, a motivational timeline diagram, and a researcher-developed scale were used to collect data from 226 in-service L2 teachers. The interview data collected from 15 participants were analyzed through open, axial, and selective coding using…
Professional Materials
Directions and Prospects for Educational Linguistics
Maureen S. Andrade and Norman W. Evans
Mastery of writing skills is considered a challenge for many learners including those with English as their first language. It is not that writing is difficult in itself; rather, a lack of adequately relevant and motivating instruction and response by the teacher can lead to challenges. It can be liberating for teachers to have a source supplying instructional strategies to eliminate learners’ writing problems (Harris et al. 2006). This volume is…
The Effect of Linguistic Context on EFL Vocabulary Learning
There is limited literature on the role of linguistic context in learning and remembering new vocabulary items by EFL learners. To fill this gap in literature and to further explore the relationship between surrounding linguistic context and learning, and retention of new words, this study was set out to investigate whether systematically changing the amount of surrounding context has any significant effect on learning and retention of new vocabu…
Iranian university students’ experiences of and attitudes towards alternatives in assessment
This study investigated the effect of assessment type (self vs. peer vs. teacher) on university students’ academic achievement and students’ attitudes toward them. In the main study, 82 undergraduate English-as-a-Foreign-Language students in four classes at three universities in Iran were randomly assigned into one of self-, peer- and teacher-assessment or control groups. A pre-test was designed to measure students’ initial knowledge in the subje…
The idea of English in Iran
This paper explores the place of English in Iran. To do this, we look at the social presence of English in Urmia (the capital of West Azerbaijan province, Iran). The paper draws on instances of the use of English in different contexts in Urmia, including its use in academia, business, state and private education, media, and people's ordinary lives. The idea of English in Iran is also investigated by studying a cohort of 115 English language learn…
Appropriating Difference in Ella C. Sykes'Through Persia on a Side-Saddle
This article teases out Ella Sykes’ responses to the differences she encounters in the contact zone in Persia in her much-neglected travel narrative Through Persia on a Side-Saddle (1898). The authors argue that Ella Sykes’ position/self-positioning in relation to difference is shaped by various, and at times opposing, factors, which contribute to the ambivalent nature of her representations of Persia and its people in her travel narrative. The p…
Effects of computer-assisted glosses on EFL learners' vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension in three learning conditions
Academic conflict in Applied Linguistics research article discussions
Compliment Response (CR) patterns among English vs. Persian teachers
The purpose of the present study was to compare differential functioning of Iranian English versus Persian teachers in responding to compliments and to investigate the possibility of sociolinguistic transmission of speech act of responding to compliments from English culture to native Iranian Persian speakers. Following Chen and Yang (2010), we hypothesized that exposure to English would affect the complimenting behavior of Persian speakers, lead…
English as a Foreign Language Teachers’ Motivation
Drawing upon Activity Theory, this mixed-methods study explored L2 teachers’ (de)motivation factors, motivation change, and voice in adopting strategies that could motivate L2 teachers. Semi-structured interviews, a motivational timeline diagram, and a researcher-developed scale were used to collect data from 226 in-service L2 teachers. The interview data collected from 15 participants were analyzed through open, axial, and selective coding using…
Inside the spider’s web
Exploring factors affecting English language teacher wellbeing
The unseen armour
Considered a highly stressful profession, teaching constantly exposes teachers to a myriad challenges, underscoring the critical importance of these stressors and equipping teachers with effective mechanisms to withstand these pressures. This qualitative investigation aimed to explore such mechanisms (i.e., immunity and vision) that EFL teachers in diverse school settings utilise. For this purpose, data were collected through a set of semi-struct…
Implementing practical argumentation framework as an analytic/evaluative tool in research Articles
The Implications Section (IS) of research articles serves as a vital means for conveying the significance of findings to readers. This study employs the practical argumentation framework to analyze the IS of three research articles focusing on self-regulated learning. Self-regulated learning encompasses learners' ability to set goals, monitor their progress, and reflect on their learning strategies and outcomes, fostering autonomy and effective e…
Cultural stereotypes devaluing Eastern EFL learners against their Western counterparts
This article presents an overview of common cultural stereotypes that devalue Eastern learners, particularly in contrast to their Western counterparts, and challenges the overgeneralized assumptions underlying such stereotypes. By reviewing commonly cited stereotypes and counter-evidence, this article challenges the invalid overgeneralized stereotypes, presenting empirical studies and expert opinions that demonstrate contrasting views toward the …
Language teacher motivation in an unequal world
Psychology (13 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Mathematics education (8 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works)