Firooz Sadighi

Biographic Data

ID5889428
NAMEFirooz Sadighi
GIVEN NAMESFirooz
FAMILY NAMESadighi
SIGNATURESADIGHI F
AFFILIATIONSIslamic Azad University of Shiraz
ORCID0000-0002-0958-5696
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • A Single or Separate Entities? A Genre-Based Investigation Into the Correspondence Between L1 and L2 Writing Skills

    Open AccessMahboubeh Safavi, Firooz Sadighi et al.ARTICLETheory and Practice in Language…2022

    Reflecting one of the state-of-the-art issues in SLA, this study aimed at inspecting the correspondence between Persian and English writing skills to see whether or not they emerged from a single entity called multi-competence (Cook, 1991, 2016). Besides, the impact of genre on Persian and English writing skills was examined to explore if the skills and their possible source were genre-sensitive or not. In so doing, 50 MA TEFL students, at the in…

  • An investigation of Iranian EFL learner accountability

    Open AccessLeila Zarei, Mohammad Sadegh Bagheri et al.ARTICLECogent Arts and Humanities2021

    Accountability has been widely considered the leading cause of student achievement and received much attention in recent years. Unlike the researchers in America and European countries, few scholars have addressed learner accountability in Iran to evaluate its effect on different EFL contexts. This mixed-method research design study compared the level of learner accountability between public high school students and English language institute lea…

  • A syntactic-based approach to the perception and production of English verbs’ argument structures by Iranian EFL learners

    Open AccessShima Akbarnezhad, Firooz Sadighi et al.ARTICLECogent Arts and Humanities2020

    Foreign language learners face learnability problems in the perception and production of English verbs’ argument structures manifested by different verbs. The purpose of this study was to investigate the problems Iranian learners encounter when perceiving and producing English verbs’ argument structures. A number of 75 students whose major was English literature and translation took part in this study. To answer the research questions, first, an …

  • Investigating the relationship between Iranian EFL learners’ use of language learning strategies and foreign language skills achievement

    Open AccessHamideh Taheri, Firooz Sadighi et al.ARTICLECogent Arts and Humanities2020

    This mixed methods study aimed at examining the relationship between EFL learners’ use of language learning strategies and the extent to which they achieved foreign language skills, namely writing, reading, listening, and speaking. The study also sought to identify possible differences between high and low achieving language learners regarding the frequency and type of their language learning strategies. To this end, the Strategy Inventory for La…

  • A probe into discourse structure of english relative clauses of Iranian EFL learners’ reading and writing performance

    Open AccessMasoomeh Benshams, Firooz Sadighi et al.ARTICLECogent Arts and Humanities2020

    The purpose of this study was to explore the function of English restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses in discourse cohesion and also intended to examine the possible differences between comprehension and production of restrictive relative clauses and non-restrictive relative clauses and their sub-types. Centering Theory was adopted as a framework to evaluate the coherence of discourse. To this end, 200 Iranian EFL language learners (1…

  • Iranian EFL teachers’ assessment for learning practices and barriers

    Open AccessMohammadreza Nasr, Mohammad Sadegh Bagheri et al.ARTICLECogent Arts and Humanities2019

    The mixed methods study reported here explored the extent to which Iranian EFL teachers perceived to adopt monitoring and scaffolding practices of assessment for learning. The study also investigated EFL teachers’ perceptions of assessment for learning as a function of textbooks taught and the teaching context. To this end, 384 Iranian EFL teachers participated in a self-report assessment for learning questionnaire consisting of 28 items on a Lik…

  • The nature of lexical collocational errors committed by advanced Iranian learners of English

    Open AccessShiravani Shiri Ali, Firooz Sadighi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Languages and Culture2017

    Collocations are among the pervasive features of languages, and English seems to be particularly rich in such multi-word lexemes. Since they have not received due attention pedagogically, this research aimed at identifying problems facing advanced Iranian learners of English in producing collocations. Over 100 pages of materials written by 30 participants were carefully studied and a list of lexical collocations was extracted. The list was then a…

  • Investigating “wanna” contraction through an emergentist approach among Iranian EFL learners applying usage-based model of language acquisition

    Open AccessMehrdad Rezaeian, Firooz Sadighi et al.ARTICLELingua2017References: 2

  • The effect of points of view on the readability of short stories

    Farideh Pourgiv, Firooz Sadighi et al.ARTICLENarrative Inquiry2003Cited by: 2