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  1. Affordances of the Microsystem of the Classroom for Foreign Language Enjoyment

    Article • Human Arenas, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan

  2. Relational influences of a teacher’s self-disclosure on the emergence of foreign language enjoyment patterns

    Article • August 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan

  3. Affordances in Iranian English for Academic Purposes Education: an Ecological Approach

    Article • Human Arenas, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan

  4. Rapid Changes in Foreign Language Learning Anxiety Caused by a Multiplicity of Topics: An Idiodynamic Approach

    Article • Journal of language and Education, March 2020, National Research University, Higher School of Economics (HSE)

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan

  5. Dynamics and mechanisms of foreign language enjoyment contagion

    Article • Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan

  6. Emotional Processes of Foreign-Language Learning Situated in Real-Time Teacher Support

    Article • Ecological Psychology, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan, Naomi de Ruiter

  7. Systemic functional multimodal discourse analysis of teaching students developing classroom materials

    Article • Teaching in Higher Education, September 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan, Javad Erfanian Mohammadi

  8. Foreign Language Anxiety and Enjoyment in an Imagined Community

    Article • Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, September 2018, Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan

  9. Is Transparency an Illusion? An Idiodynamic Assessment of Teacher and Peers’ Reading of Nonverbal Communication Cues of Foreign Language Enjoyment

    Article • Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, March 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan

  10. Longitudinal examination of university students’ foreign language enjoyment and foreign language classroom anxiety in the course of general English: latent growth curve modeling

    Article • International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, February 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan

  11. English as a Foreign Language Learners’ Anxiety and Interlocutors’ Status and Familiarity: An Idiodynamic Perspective

    Article • Polish Psychological Bulletin, December 2017, De Gruyter

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan

  12. Exploring the Fluctuations of Foreign Language Enjoyment in Conversation: An Idiodynamic Perspective

    Article • Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, November 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan

  13. Assessing Pragmatic Language Skills in Pre-School Hearing-Impaired Children and Their Hearing Peers: The Questionnaire

    Article • New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences, April 2017, Sciencepark Research Organization and Counseling

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan

  14. Ecological understanding of foreign language speaking anxiety: emerging patterns and dynamic systems

    Article • Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan

  15. Iranian English Language Learners’ Attitude towards their Accent in English Language: An Ecological Approach

    Article • Englishes in Practice, January 2017, De Gruyter

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan

  16. On the exploration of the ecology of English language teachers’ personal styles in Iran

    Article • Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan

  17. Towards an Ecological Understanding of University Students⿿ Anxiety in English as a General Course in Light of Sociocultural Perspective

    Article • Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, October 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan

  18. Towards an Ecological Understanding of Translation Eternality in the Context of Iran

    Article • Sino-US English Teaching, June 2016, David Publishing Company

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan

  19. On the Practice of Pedagogic Corpus Linguistics With Secondary School Iranian English Language Learners

    Article • Sino-US English Teaching, May 2016, David Publishing Company

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan

  20. Assessing and Improving General English University Students’ Main Sub-skills of Reading Compression: A Case of University of Bojnord

    Article • Sino-US English Teaching, April 2016, David Publishing Company

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan

  21. The Effect of Portfolio Assessment on General English Learners’ Locus of Control and Achievement

    Article • Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, April 2016, Khazar University Press

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan

  22. The Effectiveness of Strategy-Based Instruction in Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language: A Meta-analysis of Experimental Studies

    Article • US-China Foreign Language, March 2016, David Publishing Company

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan

  23. Exploring English Language Learning Policies in Iran Based on Secondary School Course Books for Learning English in Light of Globalization and Culture

    Article • Sino-US English Teaching, March 2016, David Publishing Company

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan

  24. Analyzing Culture of Learning and Teaching in the Iranian Secondary Schools English Language Course Books: Prospect

    Article • Sino-US English Teaching, February 2016, David Publishing Company

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan

  25. Evaluating Iranian Secondary School Course Books for Learning English in Light of Construction of a Global Identity

    Article • US-China Foreign Language, December 2015, David Publishing Company

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan

  26. On the Ecological Evaluation of Iranian Secondary Schools English Language Course Books in Light Intercultural Communicative Competence: Knowledge, Skills, and Attitude

    Article • Sino-US English Teaching, December 2015, David Publishing Company

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan

  27. On the Practice of Developing Vision-centered Tasks for the Local Materials for Learning English: A Case of Iranian Secondary Schools English Language Coursebooks

    Article • Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, December 2015, De Gruyter

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan

  28. On the Use of L1 in English Language Classes in Light of Vygotsky’s Genotypic Approach: A Case of Persian Language

    Article • Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, November 2015, De Gruyter

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan

  29. An Ecological Exploration of the Culture of English as an International Language Among Iranian English Language Teachers in Light of Vygotsky’s Genotypic Approach

    Article • Sino-US English Teaching, August 2015, David Publishing Company

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan

  30. The Effect of Metadiscourse on EFL Learners’ Listening Comprehension

    Article • Journal of Language Teaching and Research, May 2012, Academy Publication

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan

  31. The Effect of Schema-Vs-Translation-Based Instruction on Persian Medical Students’ Learning of General English

    Article • English Language Teaching, December 2011, Canadian Center of Science and Education

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan

  32. On the Relation of Locus of Control and L2 Reading and Writing Achievement

    Article • English Language Teaching, November 2011, Canadian Center of Science and Education

    Dr Majid Elahi Shirvan