Journal Paper

1. "Impact of Online Collaborative Academic Writing on PhD TEFL Candidates’ Writing Engagement and Motivation: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective"
   Roya Jafari, Seyed Reza Dashtestani
   Journal of Modern Research in English Language Studies, Vol. 13, No 4, 2026
2. "The Role of Online Collaborative Writing in Enhancing Teaching English as a Foreign Language Doctoral Candidates’ Abstract Writing: A Self- Determination Theory Perspective"
   Roya Jafari, Seyed Reza Dashtestani
   JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING, Vol. 18, No 37, 2026
3. "Using Iranian Traditional Music as an Input Mode in L2 Vocabulary Learning"
   Nima Yousefi, Majid Nemati, Seyed Reza Dashtestani
   Language Teaching Research Quarterly, Vol. 2026, No 55, 2026
4. "Examining Speaking Self-Efficacy and Attitudes in a OneNote-Based Self-Regulatory E-Portfolio Implementation"
   Raziyeh Mashayekh, Seyed Reza Dashtestani
   Issues in Language Teaching, Vol. 14, No 2, 2025
5. "CALL Teacher Education: A Mixed-Methods Study on Iranian EFL Teacher Educators’ Knowledge, Use, Challenges, and Strategies"
   Farhad Tabandeh, Shamimeh Hojatpanah, Seyed Reza Dashtestani
   Technology Assisted Language Education (TALE), Vol. 3, No 4, pp.111-128, 2025
6. "Blended Courses in the English-as-a-Foreign-Language context of Iraq: examining university students’ attitudes and gender effect"
   Seyed Reza Dashtestani, Yahya Hejazi, Mohammed-Abed-Salih Albadri
   JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING, Vol. 17, No 35, pp.99-116, 2025
7. "Investigating the Digital Literacy Levels of Iraqi EFL University Students: Challenges, Opportunities and the Status Quo"
   Mohammed abed Salih Albadri, Seyed Reza Dashtestani, Seyed Yahya Hejazi
   Wasit Journal for Human and Social Sciences, Vol. 21, No 2, pp.1072-1099, 2025
8. "Mobile Learning Adoption Among the Younger and Older Generations of EFL Teachers"
   Mohammed abed Salih Albadri, Seyed Reza Dashtestani
   Wasit Journal for Human and Social Sciences, Vol. 21, No 2, pp.1144-1166, 2025
9. "Toward Designing Education 4.0 Competency-Based ESP Curriculum (E4CEC) in the Context of Iranian Education: The Challenges and Opportunities"
   Seyed Reza Dashtestani, Shadi Forutanian
   The Journal of Applied Linguistics and Applied Literature: Dynamics and Advances (JALDA), Vol. 13, No 1, pp.91-108, 2025
10. "Investigating Iranian PhD TEFL Candidates’ Perceptions of an Online Collaborative Academic Writing Course: The Case of Writing Research Article Abstracts"
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    Applied Research on English Language, Vol. 14, No 1, pp.131-162, 2025
11. "Discrepancies and Similarities Between Online and Face-to-Face Teachers’ Use of Open Educational Resources (OER) for Teaching Purposes"
    Seyed Reza Dashtestani, Ahmad Mohamadi
    International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol. 24, No 4, pp.44-63, 2023
12. "In-service teachers’ conceptualization of implementing interactive learning in online and face-to-face teaching contexts: challenges and opportunities"
    Seyed Reza Dashtestani, Ahmad Mohamadi
    INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS, pp.1-12, 2023
13. "Research on Computer-Assisted Language Learning in Iran: Priorities, Challenges, and Attitudes among CALL Researchers and Teacher Educators"
    Seyed Reza Dashtestani, Ahmad Mohamadi
    Teaching English Language, Vol. 17, No 2, pp.1-37, 2023
14. "The Impact of Web-Based Language Teaching on Advanced EFL Learners' Self-Regulation and Self-Actualization"
    Homa Fadaei, Seyed Reza Dashtestani
    THE ASIAN JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND PEDAGOGY, Vol. 11, No 1, pp.62-81, 2023
15. "Digital literacy of EFL students in a junior high school in Iran: voices of teachers, students and Ministry Directors"
    Seyed Reza Dashtestani, Shamimeh Hojatpanah
    COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING, Vol. 35, No 4, pp.1-32, 2022
16. "The Winding Path towards Implementing Digital Game-based Learning (DGBL) in an Educational Context: the Voices of Pre-service Teachers"
    Seyed Reza Dashtestani
    CALL-EJ, Vol. 23, No 3, 2022
17. "Exploring Novice and Experienced Iranian EFL Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices regarding Classroom Interactional Competence and Uncovering Reasons behind Their Belief-Practice Misalignment"
    Majid Nemati, Seyed Reza Dashtestani, Ahmad Izadi
    Journal of Modern Research in English Language Studies, Vol. 9, No 3, pp.131-158, 2022
18. "Reduction of Errors in Writing Assignments: A Comparison of the Impact of Peer, Teacher, and Mixed Feedback"
    Morteza Mellati Fini, Seyed Mohammad Alavi, Seyed Reza Dashtestani
    Iranian Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Vol. 10, No 4, pp.152-166, 2022
19. "Crisis and Changes in Learning Behaviours: Technology-Enhanced Assessment in Language Learning Contexts"
    Seyed Mohammad Alavi, Seyed Reza Dashtestani, Morteza Mellati
    JOURNAL OF FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION, Vol. 45, No 1, pp.1-14, 2021
20. "ONLINE ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES INSTRUCTION IN THE CONTEXT OF IRAN: EXPLORING THE INSTRUCTOR ELEMENT"
    Seyed Reza Dashtestani
    Teaching English with Technology, Vol. 20, No 5, pp.23-37, 2020
21. "Online Courses in the Higher Education System of Iran: A Stakeholder-Based Investigation of Pre-Service Teachers’ Acceptance, Learning Achievement, and Satisfaction"
    Seyed Reza Dashtestani
    INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF RESEARCH IN OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING, Vol. 21, No 4, pp.117-142, 2020
22. "A Call for Reconciling EAP and CALL"
    Seyed Reza Dashtestani, Jaroslaw Krajka
    Teaching English with Technology, Vol. 20/5, 2020
23. "Electronic dictionaries as language learning tools for Iranian junior high school students"
    Seyed Reza Dashtestani, Shamimeh Hojatpanah
    CALL-EJ, Vol. 21, No 1, pp.79-96, 2020
24. "Teaching EFL with Interactive Whiteboards: Do the Benefits Outweigh the Drawbacks?"
    Seyed Reza Dashtestani
    Language Horizons, Vol. 3, No 1, pp.207-224, 2020
25. "EAP Instructors’ Acceptance of Computer-Based Tests in English for Academic Purposes Instruction"
    Seyed Reza Dashtestani
    Asian ESP Journal, Vol. 15, No 3, 2019
26. "English for Academic Purposes Instructors’ Use and Acceptance of Technology in EAP Courses"
    Seyed Reza Dashtestani
    CALL-EJ, Vol. 20, No 1, 2019
27. "COLLABORATIVE ACADEMIC PROJECTS ON SOCIAL NETWORK SITES TO SOCIALIZE EAP STUDENTS INTO ACADEMIC COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE"
    Seyed Reza Dashtestani
    Teaching English with Technology, Vol. 18, No 3, pp.3-20, 2018
28. "Learning English Idioms With a Web-Based Educational Game"
    Amanda Muller, Jeong_bae Son, Kazunori Nozawa, Seyed Reza Dashtestani
    JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL COMPUTING RESEARCH, 2017
29. "Moving bravely towards mobile learning: Iranian students' use of mobile devices for learning English as a foreign language"
    Seyed Reza Dashtestani
    COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING, Vol. 29/4, 2016
30. "COMPUTER LITERACY IN LEARNING ACADEMIC ENGLISH: IRANIAN EAP STUDENTS’AND INSTRUCTORS’ATTITUDES AND PERSPECTIVES"
    Seyed Mohammad Alavi, Davoud Borzabadi Farahani, Seyed Reza Dashtestani
    Teaching English with Technology, Vol. 16/4, pp.56-77, 2016
31. "Towards integrating computer-based testing (CBT) into the EFL curriculum: Iranian EFL teachers' perspectives on challenges and obstacles"
    Seyed Reza Dashtestani
    Asian EFL Journal, Vol. 17/2, pp.134-163, 2015
32. "Towards a learner-centered approach to academic writing instruction in the teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) context of Iran"
    Seyed Mohammad Alavi, Majid Nemati, Seyed Reza Dashtestani
    Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes, Vol. 3/2, pp.229-240, 2015
33. "English for academic purposes (EAP) instructors’ perspectives on the integration of formative assessment in the EAP context of Iran"
    Seyed Mohammad Alavi, Seyed Reza Dashtestani
    Asian ESP Journal, Vol. 11, No 1, pp.64-94, 2015
34. "Computer literacy of Iranian teachers of English as a foreign language: Challenges and obstacles"
    Seyed Reza Dashtestani
    International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, Vol. 9, No 1, pp.87-100, 2014
35. "English as a foreign language—teachers’ perspectives on implementing online instruction in the Iranian EFL context"
    Seyed Reza Dashtestani
    ALT J RESEARCH IN LEARNING TECHNOLOGY, Vol. 22, No 1, 2014
36. "The effect of interactive videos on Iranian EFL learners' lexical knowledge in the context of secondary schools"
    Seyed Reza Dashtestani, Shamimeh Hojatpanah
    Journal of Foreign Language Research, Vol. 13, No 1, pp.157-175, 2023
37. "Digital literacy for Iranian EAP instructors: Challenges, opportunities, and current practices"
    Seyed Reza Dashtestani, Shamimeh Hojatpanah
    Journal of Foreign Language Research, Vol. 11, No 3, pp.417-433, 2021
38. "New EFL textbooks at the Junior High school Level: Have the needs of students been taken into account?"
    Shamimeh Hojatpanah, Seyed Reza Dashtestani
    Journal of Foreign Language Research, Vol. دوره 10 شماره 3, 2020
39. "An analysis of Iranian online EFL teachers' technological, pedagogical, and evaluation skills"
    Seyed Reza Dashtestani, Hossein Karami
    Journal of Foreign Language Research, Vol. 9, No 3, 2020

Conference Paper

1. "Investigating the reading anxiety in learning English through humanoid robots: A mixed-methods study"
   Saeed Khazaei, Seyed Reza Dashtestani
   Fourth International Conference on Comparative Education, 2025
2. "Investigating the (non)-Impact of Customizing Knowledge Bases of Artificial Intelligence-Driven Robot on Language for Specific Purposes Learning"
   Seyed Reza Dashtestani, Saeed Khazaei, Elahe Khajouiy Mirzade
   2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering, 2024
3. "Towards Evaluating the Translatability of Internet Memes"
   Seyed Reza Dashtestani, Alireza Moghari Hesari, Shamimeh Hojatpanah
   8th International Conference on Language and Literature Studies, 2023
4. "Needs and Challenges of Iranian Blind and Visually-Impaired Learners with Regard to English language Teaching"
   Parisa Kabiri, Seyed Reza Dashtestani, Shamimeh Hojatpanah
   8th International Conference on Language and Literature Studies, 2023
5. "The Effect of implementing a Computer-Assisted lnaguage Teacher Training (CTT) Course on EFL Primary School Teachers' Attitudes and Perceptions"
   Narges Rahimizadeh, Seyed Reza Dashtestani, Shamimeh Hojatpanah
   8th International Conference on Language and Literature Studies, 2023
6. "Potential barriers to DGBL implementation in Iran"
   Hossein Mohseni, Seyed Reza Dashtestani, Seyed Mohammad Alavi
   18th International TELLSI Conference, 2021
7. "The Impact of Watching English Cartoons on Iranian Young Learners' Incidental Vocabulary Learning and Attitudes"
   Shamimeh Hojatpanah, Seyed Reza Dashtestani
   1 st National Conference on Modern Technology & English Language Teaching, 2021
8. "Computer-Assisted Language Learning in the Context of the Secondary Schools: Teachers' and Students' Points of View"
   Shamimeh Hojatpanah, Seyed Reza Dashtestani
   The 8th International and the 14th National Conference on E-learning and E-Teaching, 2021
9. "Iranian young learners’ and teachers’ conceptions of technology use for learning English as a foreign language"
   Shamimeh Hojatpanah, Seyed Reza Dashtestani
   The Fifth ELT Conference, Bridging Theory and Gap, Allameh Tabataba’i University (ATU), 2019
10. "Iranian English as a foreign language students’ perspectives on the use of online dictionaries: Promises and challenges"
    Seyed Reza Dashtestani, Zahra Dashtban
    The Fifth ELT Conference, Bridging Theory and Gap, Allameh Tabataba’i University (ATU), 2019
11. "Iranian K-12 EFL learners' digital literacy: Echoing the voices of learners, teachers, and decision-makers"
    Seyed Reza Dashtestani, Shamimeh Hojatpanah
    6th International Conference on Applied Research in Language Studies, 2019
12. "ESP Class is like a box of chocolate: A closer look into subject-related critical incidents"
    Seyed Reza Dashtestani, Michael Sadeghi Seraji
    6th International Conference on Applied Research in Language Studies, 2019
13. "An analysis of Iranian Online EFL Teachers' Technological, Pedagogical, and Evaluation Skills"
    Seyed Reza Dashtestani, Hossein Karami, Zahra Dashtban
    6th International Conference on Applied Research in Language Studies, 2019