پديد آورندگان :
Akbar A., Jahanbakhsh English Department - Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages - University of Tabriz - Tabriz, Iran , Parviz, Ajideh English Department - of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages - University of Tabriz - Tabriz, Iran
كليدواژه :
study quality , methodological synthesis , Iranian journals , experimental studies
چكيده لاتين :
The present study is a methodological synthesis aiming to
evaluate the adherence of Iranian L2 papers to the study quality
standards. Ten Iranian journals were selected based on the latest
ranking of Iran’s Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology
(MSRT), and all experimental papers (N = 367) published from
their beginnings were explored for study quality with regards to
sampling, design, statistical tests, reporting practices and data
sharing, and visual presentation. In the evaluation of the papers,
the protocols proposed by Gass and Plonsky (2011) and Pagout
and Plonsky (2017) were moderated and some recent issues
proposed by APA’s (2018) Journal Article Reporting Standards
and some scholars (e.g., Hu & Plonsky, 2019; Khany & Tazik,
2019; Larson-Hall, 2017) were added. The results showed that
while there were issues, like acceptable sample size, use of pretesting,
reporting descriptive and inferential statistics, and
ensuring the reliability of instruments, that were acceptably
adhered to quality standards, problematic areas existed in all five
facets of quality, and the majority of them stayed constant or
changed slightly over time. The shortcomings caused by such lack
of adherence are discussed to identify the challenges in the way of
improving the papers’ quality. Although the results are obtained
from a specific context, the implications may be generalizable to
other contexts where English is taught and researched as a foreign
language.
