Listening is referred to by many scholars as the most important as well as the most complicated skill in the language, which can cause mental fatigue in the learners. This study was an attempt to investigate the relationship between L2 listening comprehension and listening fatigue among Iranian EFL learners. For this purpose, 86 intermediate and upper-intermediate Iranian EFL learners randomly selected after administering a paper-based TOEFL among an initial sample of 120 BA learners majoring in English language translation, took part in the study. A TOEFL listening test and a researcher-made validated listening fatigue questionnaire were utilized in order to gather the necessary data. Afterwards, during the qualitative phase, oral interviews were employed to obtain 30 % of the participant’s’ attitudes about the relationship between listening comprehension and listening fatigue. Applying a Pearson product-moment correlation revealed that there was a significant relationship between L2 listening fatigue and their listening comprehension. These findings were also supported by a small qualitative phase and learners gave their positive support and attitude about the relationship. These findings have some pedagogical implications for teaching and learning an L2, the most important of which is that in order to enhance EFL learners’ L2 listening comprehension, it is better to reduce their debilitative listening fatigue. پرونده مقاله

The present study was an attempt to investigate language assessment literacy among EFL teachers inthe Iranian context aiming at studying the implications of assessment literacy for TEFL teacher educationreform. For this purpose, 20 EFL teachers in Iranian language institutes (Bayan, Azmoon, Zaban Sara,and Marefat institutes) were randomly picked for an extensive semi-structured examination. All themeetings were categorized and transcribed and after being analyzed, they were recorded on a DigitalVoice Recorder (DVR). The results revealed that Iranian instructors were found well-acquainted withassessment literacy components. Likewise, it turned out that novice teachers with a TEFL backgroundwere more aware of assessment literacy and its significance in teacher education. However, in termsof other assessment components such as test administration, selecting the best assessment methods,and communicating assessment results experienced teachers with a TEFL background presented moreto-the-point concepts compared to their counterparts in the non-TEFL group, indicating that theteachers with a TEFL background could perceive the aforementioned teacher assessment literacycomponents better than their non-TEFL counterpart. The findings imply that EFL language instituteinstructors` literacy in educational assessment particularly in especially in communicating assessmentresults to others and valid grading of the learners’ assessment is found insufficient. پرونده مقاله