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    1 - Investigating the Relationship between Teacher Resilience, Teacher Immunity and Emotional Intelligence among Iranian EFL Teachers
    Research in English Language Pedagogy , Issue 5 , Year , Winter 2024
    Teacher resilience and teacher immunity are important qualities which are of high significance in today’s scope of EFL teacher education and teacher psychology. The present study explored whether there are any correlations or associations between teacher resilienc More
    Teacher resilience and teacher immunity are important qualities which are of high significance in today’s scope of EFL teacher education and teacher psychology. The present study explored whether there are any correlations or associations between teacher resilience, teacher immunity and emotional intelligence among Iranian EFL teachers. So, 90 EFL teachers from different English language institutes in Gorgan, Iran were chosen through convenience sampling procedure. To collect the data, three instruments: Teacher Resilience Questionnaire, Language Teacher Immunity Questionnaire, and Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire were used. The correlation test, Pearson, was run in order to examine the relationship between teacher emotional intelligence and teacher immunity, teacher emotional intelligence and teacher resilience and the relationship between teacher immunity and teacher resilience. The results indicated a significant relationship between Iranian EFL teachers’ emotional intelligence and teacher immunity. In addition, findings revealed a positive relationship between emotional intelligence and teacher resilience too and also a positive and significant relationship between teacher immunity and teacher resilience as well. As pedagogical implications, teachers who suffer from lower resilience and immunity should be informed on various ways of improving them including increasing their practicing on emotional intelligence. Manuscript profile

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    2 - Dynamic Assessment in L2 Writing Performance: the Case of Iranian EFL Learners
    Journal of Applied Linguistics Studies , Issue 1 , Year , Winter 2024
    Dynamic assessment (DA) is founded in Sociocultural Theory (SCT) of Vygotsky (1978) and his conception of Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD). It motivated the scholars to find a way from a static approach of assessment to the dynamic approach to increase individuals&rsq More
    Dynamic assessment (DA) is founded in Sociocultural Theory (SCT) of Vygotsky (1978) and his conception of Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD). It motivated the scholars to find a way from a static approach of assessment to the dynamic approach to increase individuals’ independence and level of performance (Lantolf & Poehner, 2004; Poehner, 2008). To this end, this investigation probed DA intervention on writing fluency and complexity of Iranian EFL learners. Before the treatment, the KET test was implemented for homogenizing the participants and then 36 learners were chosen in groups of namely, experimental and control (18 participants in every group). In both groups, learners wrote a one-paragraph essay in the first session. During the intervention which lasted for two sessions, the researcher followed some stages including implicit and explicit feedback types in the second and third sessions to help learners move from teacher-regulation to self-regulation and then they wrote again a one-paragraph essay as the post-test in the fourth session. Participants in the control group wrote on the same topics as the experimental group, however, with no DA intervention. The researcher corrected their papers and provided some general comments in the control group. The t-tests in the post-tests indicated that experimental group surpassed the control group considerably concerning the writing fluency and complexity improvement. The paper concludes with a discussion and recommendations for further research into the potential DA contributions to EFL writing assessment and instruction. Manuscript profile