Browsing Makale Koleksiyonu by Author "Solhi, Mehdi"
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Associations between EFL students’ L2 grit, boredom coping strategies, and emotion regulation strategies: A structural equation modeling approach
Solhi, Mehdi; Derakhshan, Ali; Ünsal, Büşra (Routledge, 2023)This study intended to explore the relations between 259 Turkish EFL students’ L2 grit (i.e. the persistence of effort and consistency of interest) and boredom coping strategies (i.e. cognitive approach, behavioural approach, ... -
The effect of recorded oral feedback on EFL learners' writing
Solhi, Mehdi; Eǧinli, İlknur (Selcuk University, 2020)While there is general agreement among learners, teachers, and scholars that constructive feedback on writing is necessary to revision, there are fewer consensuses on how feedback should be given, when, by whom, and what ... -
Evaluating the long-term effectiveness of English language coursebooks at Turkish public high schools
Solhi, Mehdi; Mert, Yaren Zehra; Çelen, Zeliha; Kısa, Rabia (Hacettepe University, 2021)In this pre-use evaluation study, the long-term effectiveness of the contents of the English language coursebooks provided by the Ministry of Turkish National Education for high school students (i.e., 9th to 12th graders) ... -
Evaluation of the English language coursebooks used at the Turkish public elementary schools
Solhi, Mehdi; Sak Masrı, Meryem; Şahin, Şeyda; Yılmaz, Hanife Selin (Selcuk University, 2020)This study sought to evaluate the English language coursebooks used at the Turkish public elementary schools. In so doing, a series of coursebooks used in English courses of the curriculum prepared by the Turkish Ministry ... -
Factors negatively affecting Turkish EFL learners' achievement: A gender-based exploratory study
Solhi, Mehdi (International Balkan University, 2020)The reasons for the Turkish students' poor foreign language achievements have long been a subject of discussion among educators. This is owing to the fact that Turkish students spend many years on learning English, starting ... -
The impact of EFL learners' negative emotional orientations on (Un)willingness to communicate in in-person and online L2 learning contexts
Solhi, Mehdi (Springer, 2024)The present study explored how negative emotional orientations (i.e., anxiety, boredom, and demotivation) may contribute to English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' willingness to communicate (WTC) in in-person and ... -
Investigating Turkish pre-service English language teachers’ virtual teaching dispositions
Karacan, Cemil Gökhan; Solhi, Mehdi (European Knowledge Development (EUROKD, 2022)The current study sought to investigate Turkish pre-service English language (EL) teachers’ virtual teaching dispositions (i.e., social, pedagogical, expert/cognitive, and virtual/technical presences) and the extent they ... -
An investigation of the university students' beliefs on the unenviable reputation of Turkish students in learning English
Solhi, Mehdi (International Balkan University, 2020)This study examined(1) whether there is a difference between male and female undergraduate English language teaching (ELT)students perception with regard to the reasons they attribute to the unenviable reputation of Turkish ... -
Modeling the association between EFL instructors' foreign language teaching enjoyment and humor styles
Solhi, Mehdi; Shirvan, Majid Elahi (National Research University Higher School of Economics, 2023)Background: Positive psychology in the field of applied linguistics has recently shifted its focus from L2 learners to L2 teachers as teachers have been revealed to be a pivotal external affordance for the emergence of ... -
Modeling the association between EFL students’ boredom and enjoyment: The mediating role of teacher humor style
Solhi, Mehdi; Kesen Mutlu, Aynur; Shirvan, Majid Elahi; Taherian, Tahereh (Tarbiat Modares University, 2023)This study sought to explore the association between English as a foreign language (EFL) students‟ foreign language learning boredom (FLB) and foreign language enjoyment (FLE) (i.e., personal enjoyment, teacher appreciation, ... -
Perceived social self-efficacy and foreign language anxiety among undergraduate english teacher candidates: The case of Turkey
Eğinli, İlknur; Solhi, Mehdi (Children's Research Center, 2020)This study sought to investigate (1) the perceived social self-efficacy (PSSE) levels of undergraduate English teacher candidates in Turkey, (2) the foreign language anxiety (FLA) levels of them, (3) the relationship between ... -
A phenomenological inquiry into prospective EFL teachers' perceived sense of belonging in school placement
Ünsal Görkemoğlu, Büşra; Solhi, Mehdi (2023)ABSTRACT: While the sense of belonging has seen a surge of interest in the field of social psychology, there has been a scarcity of research on the construct during school placement in initial teacher education (ITE) ... -
University students' level of boredom and their coping strategies in emergency remote education during the coronavirus pandemic
Solhi, Mehdi; Önen, Serap (Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., 2023)The purpose of this study was twofold: firstly, we investigated whether there is a difference between male and female university students' level of boredom and their boredom coping strategies (i.e., cognitive approach, ... -
University students' multidimensional state boredom and strategies to cope with classroom boredom
Solhi, Mehdi (National Research University Higher School of Economics, 2021)This study sought to examine how university students' state boredom dimensions (i.e., disengagement, high arousal, low arousal, inattention, and time perception) and their boredom coping strategies (i.e., cognitive approach, ... -
Unveiling the interplay between EFL teachers’ cognitive flexibility, emotion regulation, and foreign language teaching anxiety: a structural equation modeling approach
Kesen Mutlu, Aynur; Solhi, Mehdi (2024)The current study explored the association between EFL instructors’ cognitive flexibility (CF) and foreign language teaching anxiety (FLTA), with the mediating impact of emotion regulation strategies. In doing so, 330 ...