Journal Paper

1. "Modeling the Structural Relationships among Formative Assessment, Feedback Literacy, Self-Regulated Learning, and EFL Achievement: Evidence from Iraqi Higher Education"
   Sahar Sabbar Zamil Al-Yasir, Abbasali Rezaei
   Journal of Babylon Center for Humanities studies, Vol. 16, No 9, pp.81-104, 2026
2. "L1 Use as a Component of Classroom Management in L2 Teaching: A Qualitative Study on Iranian EFL Teachers’ Cognition"
   Nafeeseh Aryaeian, Abbasali Rezaei
   Applied Linguistics Inquiry (ALI), Vol. 3, No 2, pp.1-11, 2025
3. "Critical thinking in the cultural components of EFL textbooks: CCR model and its application"
   Abbasali Rezaei, Elahe Saleh
   Thinking Skills and Creativity, Vol. 2025, No 57, pp.1-14, 2025
4. "Intrinsic Motivation and EFL Learners' Achievement in Online Instruction: A Systematic Review"
   Abbasali Rezaei, Alireza Ghaneolhosseini
   Iranian journal of educational sociology, Vol. 8, No 3, pp.1-13, 2025
5. "Unmasking Inconsistency: A Methodological Systematic Review of Relative Clause Ambiguity Research"
   Karim Vafaee Seresht, Hamideh Marefat, Abbasali Rezaei
   Teaching English as a Second Language Quarterly, Vol. 44, No 3, pp.55-107, 2025
6. "Online and Face-to-Face Instructions Interplay and Language Learning: Instructors’ and Learners' Perspective"
   Parisa Abazari, Abbasali Rezaei, Nasrin Bahreini
   JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING, Vol. 16, No 34, pp.18-1, 2024
7. "The Representation and Effectiveness of Intercultural Communicative Competence in Iranian High School ELT Textbooks"
   Abbasali Rezaei, Mohammad Hussien Norouzi, Elahe Saleh
   Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, Vol. 16, No 2, pp.89-106, 2024
8. "Iranian EFL Teachers’ Cognition of Corrective Feedback as an Element of Classroom Management: A Qualitative Study"
   Abbasali Rezaei, Mohammad Hussien Norouzi, Nafeeseh Aryaeian
   Journal of Modern Research in English Language Studies, Vol. 11, No 2, 2024
9. "An autonomy-oriented response to EAP students’ learned helplessness in online classes"
   Haniye Seyri, Abbasali Rezaei
   CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY, Vol. 43, No 9, pp.7887-7898, 2024
10. "Establishing and Maintaining Rapport with Learners for Classroom Management: A Qualitative Inquiry into Iranian EFL Teachers’ Cognition"
    Nafeeseh Aryaeian, Abbasali Rezaei
    JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING, Vol. 15, No 32, pp.41-57, 2023
11. "The Effect of Iraqi EFL University Students’ Critical Thinking Abilities on Their Use of Language Learning Strategies"
    Lihadh Abdulamir Kareem, Abbasali Rezaei
    alameed, Vol. 12, No 47, pp.275-302, 2023
12. "The Relationship between L2 Motivational Self-system and Willingness to Communicate: The Mediating Effect of L2 Anxiety in the Chinese EFL Context"
    Aliakbar Khomeijani Farahani, Abbasali Rezaei, Wei Wang
    International Journal of Research in English Education (IJREE), Vol. 8, No 2, pp.29-14, 2023
13. "Iranian In-Service EFL Teachers’ Perceptions of Values Education: A Mixed Methods Study"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Mojtaba Esfandyari
    Issues in Language Teaching, Vol. 12, No 1, pp.295-336, 2023
14. "“Where got I that truth?” An analysis of external sources in English and Persian news reports on Syria"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Mohammad Mozaffari
    Discourse and Interaction, Vol. 16, No 1, 2023
15. "Curbing boredom in online teaching: Effects of an autonomy-oriented intervention with EAP students"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Haniye Seyri
    Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 13, No 1, 2022
16. "Positive Psychology and SLA Revisited: Unearthing Positive Emotions in EFL Classrooms"
    Elnaz Oladrostam, Abbasali Rezaei, Musa Nushi
    Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 13, No 2, 2022
17. "PhD students’ identity construction in face-to-face and online contexts"
    Haniye Seyri, Abbasali Rezaei
    Research in Post-Compulsory Education, Vol. 27, No 1, pp.48-65, 2022
18. "A Comparative Study of Metadiscourse Markers in Geology Research Articles"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Arezo Ghobadi
    Language Horizons, Vol. 5, No 2, pp.7-26, 2021
19. "Mobile-based dynamic assessment and the development of EFL students' oral fluency"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Seyed Mohammad Alavi, Parisa Razzaghifard
    International Journal of Mobile learning and organization, Vol. 14, No 4, 2020
20. "Motivational Trajectories in Language Learning: Evidence from Highly-Motivated English as a Foreign Language Learners"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Aliakbar Khomeijani Farahani, Robabeh Moshtaghi Zonouz
    Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, Vol. 16, No 2, pp.281-299, 2019
21. "Exploring the Development of Writing Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in Relation to the Motivational Trajectories: a Dynamically-Oriented Case Study"
    Aliakbar Khomeijani Farahani, Abbasali Rezaei, Robabeh Moshtaghi Zonouz
    English Teaching & Learning, Vol. 44, No 1, pp.81-100, 2019
22. "Moving Second Language Acquisition One Step Forward: Validating an Inventory of Positive Psychology in Language Learning"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Elnaz Oladrostam
    MEXTESOL, Vol. 43, No 4, pp.1-16, 2019
23. "Academic and Administrative Obstacles Facing Scientific Research in Higher Education Institutions in the Sultanate of Oman: An Analytical Quantitative Study"
    Muneer Karadsheh, Abbasali Rezaei, Naser Almawali
    Dirasat, Educational Sciences, Vol. 46, No 4, pp.588-603, 2019
24. "Dynamic Assessment in Second Language Acquisition: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis"
    Abbasali Rezaei, MAHSA GHANBARPOOR
    Language Horizons, Vol. 3, No 5, pp.43-69, 2019
25. "The impact of mobile-based dynamic assessment on improving EFL oral accuracy"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Seyed Mohammad Alavi, Parisa Razzaghifard
    EDUCATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES, Vol. 24, No 5, pp.3091-3105, 2019
26. "Implicit and Explicit Instruction and EFL Learners’ Implicit Knowledge Development: Evidence from Word Monitoring Task"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Sepideh Mehraein
    Iranian Journal of Applied Linguistics, Vol. 22, No 1, pp.153-116, 2019
27. "Viewing IPPLL in Light of Gender Differences: An Exploratory Approach"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Elnaz Oladrostam
    MEXTESOL, Vol. 42, No 4, pp.1-12, 2018
28. "Scaffolding and EFL Learners' Use of Language Learning Strategies in the Iraqi Language Teaching Context"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Aliakbar Khomeijani Farahani, Lihadh Mubarak
    Teaching English Language, Vol. 12, No 2, pp.89-116, 2018
29. "Discourse-Pragmatic and Processing-Related Motivators of the ordering of Reason Clauses in an Academic Corpus"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Majid Nemati, Sayyed Ehsan Golparvar
    Research in Language, Vol. 16, No 3, pp.325-339, 2018
30. "EFL Learners' Proficiency Level and Critical Thinking: The Case of Iraqi University Students"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Lihadh Abdulamir Mubarak
    International Journal of Language Studies, Vol. 12, No 3, 2018
31. "A Triangulated Study of Workplace English Needs of Electrical Engineering Students"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Samira Kazempourian
    Journal of Modern Research in English Language Studies, Vol. 4, No 4, pp.1-24, 2017
32. "Investigating the Impact of Response Format on the Performance of Grammar Tests: Selected and Constructed"
    Farzaneh Mozaffari, Seyed Mohammad Alavi, Abbasali Rezaei
    Teaching English as a Second Language Quarterly, Vol. 36, No 2, pp.103-128, 2017
33. "The Influence of Strategic Mediation on Novice EFL Teachers’ Pedagogical Knowledge"
    Shiva Kaivanpanah Maralani, Abbasali Rezaei, Morteza Neamatollahi
    Journal of Modern Research in English Language Studies, Vol. 4, No 2, pp.89-107, 2017
34. "English Needs Analysis of Electrical Engineering Students, Graduates, and Companies: A Step toward Employability"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Samira Kazempourian
    Language Horizons, Vol. 1, No 1, pp.77-93, 2017
35. "Conditional Inference Tree Modelling of Competing Motivators of the Positioning of Concessive Clauses: The Case of a Non-native Corpus"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Sayyed Ehsan Golparvar
    Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, Vol. 24, No 2, pp.1-18, 2017
36. "The Perceptions of Language Learners across Various Proficiency Levels of Teachers' Code-Switching"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Sajjad Fathi
    Issues in Language Teaching, Vol. 5, No 2, pp.233-254, 2016
37. "Iranian Domestically Designed ESAP Textbooks and Students: A Critical Thinking Perspective"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Yoones Taase, Zahra Alishahi
    English Language Teaching, Vol. 3, No 4, pp.47-61, 2016
38. "The Sequencing of Adverbial Clauses of Time in Academic English: Random Forest Modelling of Conditional Inference Trees"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Sayyed Ehsan Golparvar
    Journal of Language Modelling, Vol. 4, No 2, pp.225-244, 2016
39. "The Measurement Paradigm and Role of Mediators in Dynamic Assessment: A Qualitative Meta-synthesis"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Mahsa Ghanbarpour
    International Journal of Language Studies, Vol. 10, No 4, pp.77-108, 2016
40. "Effect of Computerized Gloss Presentation Format on Reading Comprehension: A Cognitive Load Perspective"
    Hamideh Marefat, Abbasali Rezaei, Farid Naserieh
    Journal of Information Technology Research, Vol. 15, No 15, pp.479-501, 2016
41. "THE STATUS QUO OF TEACHER-TRAINING COURSES IN THE IRANIAN EFL CONTEXT: A FOCUS ON MODELS OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION AND DYNAMIC ASSESSMENT"
    Abbasali Rezaei, MAHSA GHANBARPOOR
    International Journal for 21st Century Education, Vol. 3, 2016
42. "Instruction of Metacognitive Listening Strategies through Audio and Videa Texts"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Seyed Mohammad Alavi, Majid Nematpour
    The European Journal of Applied Linguistics and TEFL, Vol. 5, No 1, pp.55-94, 2016
43. "Diagnosing the Iranian L2 Writing Ability Using Self-Assessment and Level Specific Approaches"
    Mahboubeh Taghizadeh, Seyed Mohammad Alavi, Abbasali Rezaei
    The European Journal of Applied Linguistics and TEFL, Vol. 7, No 1, pp.143-173, 2016
44. "Employing Acceptability Judgement Tasks to Access Pragmatic Awareness"
    Majid Nemati, Abbasali Rezaei, Mohammad Mahdi Hajmalek
    The European Journal of Applied Linguistics and TEFL, Vol. 5, No 1, pp.171-192, 2016
45. "EFL learners’ motivational beliefs and their use of learning strategies"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Shiva Kaivanpanah Maralani, Sedigheh Najibi
    Applied Research on English Language, Vol. 4, No 7, pp.1-18, 2015
46. "Teacher and Peer-enhanced scaffolding: Self-regulated learning of collocations in CALL"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Afsaneh Saeedakhtar, Afsar Roohi
    International Journal of Language Studies, Vol. 8, No 4, pp.151-174, 2014
47. "Assessing Pragmatics through MDCTs: A Case of Iranian EFL Learners"
    Majid Nemati, Abbasali Rezaei, Mohammad Mahdi Hajmalek
    Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, Vol. 6, No 2, pp.59-80, 2014
48. "diagnosing L2 Learners' Language Skills Based on the Use of a Web-Based Assessment Tool Called Dialang"
    Mahboubeh Taghizadeh, Seyed Mohammad Alavi, Abbasali Rezaei
    International Journal of E-Learning & Distance Education, Vol. 29, No 2, pp.1-28, 2014
49. "Symmetrical and asymmetrical scaffolding of L2 collocations in the context of concordancing"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Hamideh Marefat, Afsaneh Saeedakhtar
    COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING, Vol. 12, No 12, pp.1-18, 2014
50. "How Does University Teachers' Emotional Intelligence Relate to Their Self-Efficacy Beliefs"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Mehdi Sarkhosh
    Porta Linguarum, Vol. 1, No 21, pp.102-87, 2014
51. "Alternative assessment or traditional testing: How do Iranian EFL teachers respond?"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Seyed Mohammad Alavi, Enayat Shabani
    TEACHING ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE SOCIETY OF IRAN (TELLSI), Vol. 7, No 2, 2013
52. "Integrating Computer Mediated with Face - toface Communication and EFL Learners Vocaulary Improvement"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Solmaz Ahmadzadeh
    Journal of Language Teaching & Research, Vol. 3, No 3, pp.346-352, 2012
53. "TESOL in - Service Teachers Attitudes towards Computer Use"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Mohd Jafre Bin Zainol Abidin , Jinan Hatem Issa , Paiman Omer Mustafa
    English Language Teaching Journal, Vol. 5, No 1, pp.61-68, 2012
54. "The Role of Zone of Proximal Development in the Students Learning of English Adverbs"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Zeinab Azizi
    Journal of Language Teaching & Research, Vol. 3, No 1, pp.110-100, 2012
55. "Academic Discipline DIF in an English Language Proficiency"
    Seyed Mohammad Alavi, Abbasali Rezaei, Sayyed Mohammad Reza Amirian
    JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING, Vol. 5, No 7, 2011
56. "Essay Raters Personality Types and Rater Reliability"
    Abbasali Rezaei
    International Journal of Language Studies, Vol. 5, No 4, pp.122-109, 2011
57. "On the Role of Consciousness - Raising Tasks in Learning Grammar : A Learner Perspective"
    Abbasali Rezaei, رسول محمدحسین پور
    Iranian EFL journal, Vol. 7, No 4, pp.254-237, 2011
58. "Learning Styles and Overall Academic Achievement in a Specific Educational System"
    Mohamad Jafre Zainol Abidin , Abbasali Rezaei, Helan Nor Abdullah , Kiranjit Kaur Balbir Singh
    International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, Vol. 1, No 10, pp.152-143, 2011
59. "Investigating the Effect of Using Multiple Sensory Modes of Glossing Vocabulary Items in a Reading Text with Multimedia Annotations"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Neda Sharbaf Shoar
    English Language Teaching Journal, Vol. 4, No 2, 2011
60. "Does Extensive Reading Improve EFL Learners Processing Ability"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Saeed Nourzadeh
    Theory and Practice in Language Studies, Vol. 1, No 9, pp.1167-1175, 2011
61. "Task - Based Reading Assessment and High Intermediate Introverts/Extroverts Test Performance"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Fatemeh Kiaee
    TEACHING ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE SOCIETY OF IRAN (TELLSI), Vol. -, No 10, pp.136-123, 2011
62. "The Impact of Synchronous Computer - Mediated Communication ( S - CMC ) on the Oral Proficiency of Iranian EFL Learners"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Nushin Zafari
    IRANIAN JOURNAL OFAPPLIED LINGUISTICS, Vol. 13, No 2, pp.119-101, 2010
63. "Gender Differential Item Functioning Analysis of the University of Tehran English Proficiency Test"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Enayatollah Shabani
    Journal of Foreign Language Research, Vol. 56, No 14, pp.89-108, 2010
64. "University Students Test - Taking Strategies and Their Language Proficiency"
    Abbasali Rezaei
    TEACHING ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE SOCIETY OF IRAN (TELLSI), Vol. 1, No 1, pp.151-182, 2006
65. "Students’ Vocabulary Development through the implementation of Quizlet in Cambridge International School in Iran: Perspectives and Implications"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Adele Esmaeili
    Journal of Foreign Language Research, Vol. 15, No 2, pp.135-156, 2025
66. "Vocabulary Consciousness-Raising Activities: The Case of ESP Books in Iran"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Haniye Seyri
    ournal of Academic Research and Writing Books, Vol. 26, No 50, pp.1-21, 2022
67. "Teacher Agency in the Context of Curriculum Reform: The Case of Iranian Educational System"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Haniye Seyri
    Journal of Foreign Language Research, Vol. 11, No 1, pp.27-46, 2021
68. "Grammatical Metaphor in Medical Research Papers: A Comparative Study of Iranian Medical Journals in English and Those of Two English-speaking Countries"
    Nasrin Sayfouri, Abbasali Rezaei, Fatemeh Hoseini
    Language research, Vol. 8, No 19, pp.103-122, 2016
69. "Scaffolding EFL learners' use of high CV and low CV collocations: Concordancing revisited"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Afsar Rouhi, Afsaneh Saeedakhtar
    TEACHING ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE SOCIETY OF IRAN (TELLSI), Vol. 7, No 1, pp.151-178, 2013
70. "The Relationship between EFL Learners' Attitudes, Gender, Educational BAckground Nd Teachers' Experience"
    Abbasali Rezaei
    Growth and learning, Vol. 27, No 1, pp.4-11, 2012
71. "پژوهشی در نگرش استادان زبان خارجی نسبت به خودارزیابی"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Giti Afrouz Javadi
    Journal of Foreign Language Research, Vol. 57, No 57, pp.55-72, 2010
72. "اضطراب آزمون و راهبردهای مقابله با آن"
    Abbasali Rezaei
    Journal of Foreign Language Research, Vol. -, No 24, pp.111-122, 2005

Conference Paper

1. "The Mediating Role of Big Five Personality Traits in an Autonomyoriented Response to EAP Learners' Boredom"
   Haniye Seyri, Abbasali Rezaei
   20th TELLSI & 7th ATU ELT Conference, 2024
2. "Do Test Scores Manifest Test-takers' True Ability?"
   Abbasali Rezaei
   Hagia Sophia 5. International Conference on Multidisciplinary Scientific Studies, 2022
3. "Language Teaching/Learning in the Post COVID19 Pandemic"
   Abbasali Rezaei
   5th International Open and Distance Learning Conference: Disruptive Change, 2022
4. "Critical Thinking Ability and EFL Learners' Language Learning Strategy Use"
   Abbasali Rezaei
   Baskent International Conference on Multidiciplinary Studies, 2022
5. "A Comparison between Teachers' and Students' Perceptions of Code-switching in the EFL Classroom"
   Abbasali Rezaei, Sajjad Fathi
   1st National Conference on Recent Developments in English Language Teaching, Literature, and Translation, 2021
6. "EFL Learners' Level of Anxiety and Their Perception of Code-switching"
   Abbasali Rezaei, Sajjad Fathi
   1st National Conference on Recent Developments in English Language Teaching, Literature, and Translation, 2021
7. "Does the Position of 'Not Decided' Option in Likert-scale Questionnaires Affect EFL Respondents' Questionnaire Performance?"
   Parivash Nejati, Abbasali Rezaei
   The 5th ELT Conference: Bridging Theory and Practice, 2019
8. "The Effect of Implicit and Explicit Instruction on the Development of EFL Learners' Implicit Knowledge: Evidence from Word Monitoring Task"
   Abbasali Rezaei, Sepideh Mehraein
   The 5th ELT Conference: Bridging Theory and Practice, 2019
9. "CALL for Changing Our Language Teaching Perspective"
   Abbasali Rezaei
   1st MEC TESOL Conference: English in changing local and international contexts, 2018
10. "Am empirical investigation of a positive psychology intervention"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Elnaz Oladrostam
    8th IELTI, 2017
11. "An Empirical Investigation of a Positive Psychology Intervention"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Elnaz Oladrostam
    IELTI-8th, 2017
12. "The Effects of Iranian EFL Teachers’ Academic English Degrees and Experience on Their Sense of Self-efficacy"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Sajjad Fathi, Farzad Jozi
    Annual National Conference on Recent Research in English Language Teaching, 2017
13. "To quote or scapegoat? A functional analysis of evidentiality in the reports on the intervention in Syria"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Mohammad Mozaffari
    Fourth International Conference on Language, Discourse, and Pragmatics (LDP), 2017
14. "Incidental Vocabulary Learning: The Impact of Involement Load Hypothesis on Vocabulary Learning and Retention of Iranian High School Students"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Marzieh Ranjbar
    The 13th International TELLSI Conference, 2015
15. "The Measurement Paradigm and Role of Mediators in Dynamic Assessment: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Mahsa Ghanbarzadeh
    The 3rd ELT Conference, 2015
16. "Does It Make any Difference WHere a Language Is Taught: A Look at EFL in Iranian Context"
    Abbasali Rezaei
    The First National Conference on Challenges in Foreign Language Teaching in Iran, 2015
17. "Undergraduate Students' Attitudes towards the Use of Weblogs in Language Learning"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Parvin Aqaee
    International Conference on Current Trends in ELT: Putting the Learner in the Spotlight, 2013
18. "An Assessment of Language Assessment"
    Abbasali Rezaei, Enayat A. Shabani
    The Sixth Conference on Issues in English Language Teaching in Iran, 2012