Dr Ali Sorayyaei Azar
@msu.edu.my
Senior Lecturer, Department of Education
Management and Science University
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Education, Linguistics and Language, Philosophy
25
Scopus Publications
825
Scholar Citations
15
Scholar h-index
19
Scholar i10-index
Scopus Publications
- Preface
- Preface
- Navigating education 5.0 robotic technique for teaching foreign languages in todays classroom: Unveiling the potential of virtual pedagogical agents
Muthmainnah Muthmainnah, Eka Apriani, Abdul Gafur Marzuki, Ahmad Al Yakin, Nur Aeni, Ali Sorayyaei Azar, and Mohd. Rafi Riyawi
IGI Global
In the realm of Education 5.0, individuals investing in English language learner (ELL) educator training recognize the imperative to equip students with an understanding of the challenges and possibilities emerging from the integration of technology into the English language classroom. Offering a comprehensive overview, this chapter delineates the utilization of an educational robotics approach in EFL education and contemplates potential outcomes for students studying English education. - Preface
- The Effects of Performance Appraisal on Secondary School Teachers' Work Engagement in China-Based on the Mediating Effect of Teacher Identity
Guo Chang, Ahmad Rasmi Albattat, and Ali Sorayyaei Azar
Society for Research and Knowledge Management
The level of teachers' work engagement plays a crucial role in determining the quality of education. Secondary schools, being a vital component of China's basic education system, exert a significant influence on the overall educational quality in the country. This research delves into the connection between performance appraisal and the work engagement of secondary school teachers, while also exploring the mediating role of teacher identity. Employing a correlational research design, the study distributed 4848 questionnaires across 202 middle schools (comprising both middle and high schools) in eight cities within Henan Province, China. The returned 4290 valid questionnaires resulted in a commendable validity rate of 88.5%. The research methodology integrates descriptive statistical analysis, difference testing, and structural equation modeling to analyze survey responses and questionnaire retrieval outcomes. The study's findings reveal that while secondary school teachers exhibit a high level of identity, there is room for improvement in the fairness of performance appraisal and work engagement. Moreover, a fairer performance appraisal demonstrates a significant and positive correlation with work engagement and teacher identity. Additionally, teacher identity serves as a substantial predictor of teachers' work engagement and partially mediates the impact of performance appraisal on teachers' work engagement. These outcomes offer a foundational understanding for further enhancing the equity of performance appraisal for secondary school teachers in China. The study also recommends strategies to bolster teachers' self-identity by promoting fairness in performance appraisal, thereby fostering improvements in teachers' work engagement and, consequently, elevating the overall quality of education. - Text presentation or video: Malaysian university students' preferences with synchronous and asynchronous learning
Ali Sorayyaei Azar and Nur Haslinda Iskandar Tan
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Socio-economic factors are the main factors affecting organ donation
Meng Li, Han Li, and Ali Sorayyaei Azar
FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
Dear Editor, We were delighted to come across the high-quality research article by Martino et al.1 entitled “Attitude and knowledge of medical students toward donation after circulatory death.” The study aimed to investigate and analyze the acceptance of organ donation in Brazil. Martino et al. conducted a survey among medical students at a public university in Brazil, utilizing a questionnaire comprising 26 goals and Likert scale questions. The results revealed that a majority of participants were familiar with the concept of brain death, and the acceptance of postmortem donation was significantly higher than that of living donation. These intriguing findings and valuable results have captured our interest. However, upon further reading and investigation, we believe that the conclusions reached by Martino et al. warrant additional exploration and research. We are enthusiastic about contributing to the ongoing debate and eagerly anticipate hearing from the authors. First and foremost, it is important to note that the authors of the study did not conduct a multi-center survey. The sample solely consisted of medical students from a public university in Brazil. By drawing conclusions based on a single center, the study deviated from the principles of a multi-center approach. It is well established that relying on a single sample source can significantly diminish the reliability of conclusions. There are various potential confounding factors that can influence medical students’ perceptions of organ donation, both living and postmortem. These factors may include the geographic environment, household income, cultural influences, regional policies, etc. Moreover, these factors can often interplay with one another. Additionally, differences in educational levels among various universities can contribute to distinct cognitive perspectives among students. Students attending higher-level universities may display a higher acceptance of organ donation, whereas those attending lower-level universities may exhibit relatively lower acceptance rates2. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that the authors supplement their study with multi-center surveys to enhance the reliability of the data. Furthermore, we observed that the authors compared the willingness of Chinese students to donate kidneys to their relatives while alive with that of Brazilian medical students. However, it is important to acknowledge that the comparability between these two groups is relatively low due to the profound influence of Confucianism and culture in China. Chinese students are often influenced by family ethics and humanistic values, which may contribute to their increased willingness to donate organs to their relatives. Additionally, the authors mentioned the proportion of liver donation. It is worth noting that the liver has the remarkable ability to regenerate fully with just 30% of its original mass. As individuals with medical education are likely to be aware of this fact, they may exhibit greater acceptance of liver donations, whether in vivo or posthumously. Finally, it is worth noting that the author highlights a distinction between Eastern and Western countries regarding organ donations. According to the authors, Eastern countries, particularly China and Japan, heavily influenced by Confucianism, face difficulties in accepting living donations compared to postmortem donations. This is due to the emphasis on filial piety in Confucian culture, where the preservation of one’s body, including hair and skin given by parents, is considered paramount: “My body, including hair and skin, which is given by parents, shouldn’t be damaged. This is the basic principle of filial piety.” Filial piety holds great significance in these countries3. On the contrary, some scholars4,5 argue that socioeconomic factors, rather than religious beliefs or other considerations, are the primary barriers to organ donation in Western countries. - Dialectical materialism and teaching by words and deeds applied to the education of clinical medical students
Meng Li and Ali Sorayyaei Azar
Frontiers Media SA
COPYRIGHT © 2023 Li and Sorayyaei Azar. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. Dialectical materialism and teaching by words and deeds applied to the education of clinical medical students - The Impact of Teacher Quality Management on Student Performance in the Education Sector: Literature Review
Guo Qingyan, Ali Sorayyaei Azar, and Albattat Ahmad
Sciedu Press
High-quality talents come from high-quality education and management, which largely depends on teacher quality. However, varieties of environmental forces are driving change in education, which impacts students' performance greatly. These challenges call for teacher quality management firmly on the agenda of all the school factors. Teacher quality in schools and institutions is one of the most important factors that influence student performance. This review paper aims to classify the connection between teacher quality management and student performance through three dimensions, namely classroom management, teacher qualification, and in-service training. In this literature review, the authors use past studies to certify the quality management and related theories that are used in vocational education. From this study, it reaches three conclusions: firstly, it can be concluded that school leaders can manage teacher quality through the supervision of classroom management, teacher qualification and in-service training. Then, it tries to highlight the significant relationship between teachers' classroom management. Finally, it focuses on enhancing teacher quality according to quality management criteria, it is a practical and effective strategy to cultivate qualified students. This research will help the leaders realize the importance of teacher quality management and strategies that improve teacher quality, thus impacts on student performance. - A Comparative Analysis of Stance Features in Research Article Introductions: Malaysian and English Authors
Ali Sorayyaei Azar, Praemela Hassaram, Farah Imani Mohd Farook, and Nur Hasyimah Romli
Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM Press) - Analysing Authorial Identity Construction in the Review Article Genre in Applied Linguistics
Ali Sorayyaei Azar and Azirah Hashim
LPPM Unsyiah
Authorial identity construction is one of many professional rhetorical strategies employed by authors in academic review genres. Authors usually create a persona to represent themselves, their seniority in the field, and the community to which they belong. The author’s visibility is made possible through several rhetorical devices. Perhaps the most remarkable way of such authorial identity construction in the review article genre is self-mentions. The aims of this research are (1) to find out what types of self-mention are frequently used in review articles, (2) to determine the frequency of use and distribution of self-mentions in the review articles, and (3) to investigate the rhetorical function of self-mentions in the different analytical sections of the review articles. The data, drawn from a randomly selected corpus of thirty-two review articles, were analysed using WordSmith Tools Version 6. The findings indicated that first-person plural pronouns were more frequently used than singular pronouns in the whole corpus except in the two review texts. It was also observed that the frequency of occurrence for the exclusive and inclusive pronouns was very close to each other. Most importantly, the inclusive pronouns were used not only as a politeness strategy to appreciate the readers and keep the writers’ claims balanced but also as a persuasive tool to seek the readers’ agreement in the evaluation of research developments. This study revealed that authors construct various professional personas as a rhetorical strategy to carve their authorial identity and credibility in the review article genre. The findings of this study have pedagogical implications in the field of academic writing in applied linguistics as well as other disciplines. - A genre analysis of Malaysian TESL undergraduates' projects and TESL-related research articles: A comparative study
- The application of ICT techs (mobile-assisted language learning, gamification, and virtual reality) in teaching english for secondary school students in malaysia during covid-19 pandemic
Ali Sorayyaei Azar and Nur Haslinda Iskandar Tan
Horizon Research Publishing Co., Ltd.
With the sudden changes caused by the ongoing worldwide pandemic in Malaysia and rapid progress in the educational learning system towards online learning, some teachers wondered about the application of technology in students' education and how it would impact their learning process Therefore, the main objectives of this research are (1) to contextually understand the university interns' perception of ICT Techs (MALL, Gamification, and VR) in teaching English for secondary school students during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Malaysia, and (2) to determine which of these ICT Techs (MALL, Gamification, and VR) would be most preferred by the interns for teaching English to secondary school students in Malaysia The research design for this study was quantitative and a web-based questionnaire was adapted from three articles (Mihaela Badea, 2015;Huseyin Oz, 2015;and Ali Rahimi, Niloofar Seyed Golshan & Hooman Mohebi, 2013) The reliability test indicated a value of 0 866 with Cronbach's Alpha reliability statistic From a total of 63 university interns selected from a private university in Malaysia, the results indicated that 38 1% chose MALL, 33% chose Gamification, and 29% chose VR, as their preferred technology to teach English for secondary school students during this Covid-19 Pandemic in Malaysia Evidence suggested that online learning can be more effective for students where they can control their own learning pace, compared to learning in a classroom environment Thus, future English teachers should explore and apply innovative pedagogical methods in the teaching-learning process during pandemic outbreak in Malaysia, while contributing to the development of motivation, participation, and engagement among secondary school students in acquiring the English language © 2020 by authors - The impact of Malaysian education and social science lecturers' trait emotional intelligence and classroom discourse on students' comprehension of learned jargons
- Motivation in second language acquisition among learners in malaysia
Ali Sorayyaei Azar and Darshini Tanggaraju
LPPM Unsyiah
Lack of motivation is the critical factor which affects university students’ learning process in Malaysia. Hence, this study is an attempt to investigate the types of motivation which Bachelor students used in learning English at one of the private universities in Malaysia. It was also analysed to determine the motivational level of the Bachelor students who learn English as a Second Language (ESL). This study used a quantitative method where the data was collected through the questionnaire adapted from Gardner’s (1972) Attitude, Motivation Test Battery (AMTB). The questionnaire was distributed to 150 students and the data was analysed quantitatively. The findings showed that the majority of the Bachelor students were instrumentally motivated towards learning ESL. The result concerning the level of motivation showed that the students had a high level of instrumental motivation for learning English, compared to integrative, resultative, and intrinsic ones. Yet, it is also apparent that all four types of motivation are at a high motivational level. Based on the findings, a few suggestions were highlighted. First, the lecturers should always design a classroom environment that promotes students’ motivation towards learning ESL. Second, students should be given more opportunities to visit other English native countries under Global Learning Programmes (GLP). In that case, teachers or lecturers of ESL should promote all types of motivation in the classroom and guide students towards achieving goals. - The impact of attitude markers on enhancing evaluation in the review article genre
Ali Sorayyaei Azar and Azirah Hashim
Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM Press)
Academic review writing is not merely about providing an overview but taking a stance and evaluating other scholars’ views in evaluation-loaded texts. In academic review genres, the authors describe, analyse, and evaluate the developments of a research. Perhaps the most noticeable way of such an evaluation in academic review genres is the use of attitudinal lexicon and its categories. The main aim of this research is (1) to investigate what type of attitude markers are frequently used to enhance evaluation in the review articles, and (2) to analyse their functions in the different analytical sections of the review articles. The data, drawn from a randomly selected corpus of thirty-two review articles, was analysed using Wordsmith tools (Scott, 2012) to investigate how evaluation was enhanced by the use of attitudinal lexicon. The results indicated that the attitude markers were more frequent in the Conclusion section than other analytical sections in the corpus. Four types of attitude markers were identified, however only two types (i.e. attitudinal adjectives and adverbs) were the most frequent markers. They appeared more frequently in Move2 and Move3 of the Conclusion sections. This study revealed how the authors professionally communicate with their readers to clarify their evaluation through attitude markers and express importance, limitations and gaps, compare and contrast, and praise and criticize the developments of a research in applied linguistics. The findings of this research can be drawn on in EAP courses for novice writers to facilitate their achievement in academic writing. - Towards an analysis of review article in applied linguistics: Its classes, Purposes and characteristics
Ali Sorayyaei Azar and Azirah Hashim
Canadian Center of Science and Education
The classes, purposes and characteristics associated with the review article in the field of applied linguistics were analyzed. The data were collected from a randomly selected corpus of thirty two review articles from a discipline-related key journal in applied linguistics. The findings revealed that different sub-genres can be identified within the applied linguistic review article genre. Three main types of review articles were therefore identified based on the analysis of linguistic devices often used by the authors, their communicative purposes, and the specialist informants’ feedback: (1) the bibliographic review article which gives readers a comprehensive and descriptive record of annual works and it encompasses the literature-oriented approach, (2) the critical evaluative review article which encompasses subject-oriented approach, that is to say it identifies an idea or raises a research problem, then gives its solution by analyzing and evaluating the selective works done before in the related field, and finally it suggests a new direction, and (3) the mixed-mode review article which has the twin roles and encompasses both literature-oriented and subject-oriented approaches. A possible colony of review genre was suggested and this study further examined some of the characteristics and purposes associated with the review articles. The classification continuum, purposes, characteristics, and linguistic devices of the review articles proposed thus provide useful guidance for graduate EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students and novice writers how to monitor and make use of the review articles during their research writing. - The self-promotion of academic textbooks in the preface section: A genre analysis
- The effect of ascorbic acid and H<inf>2</inf>O<inf>2</inf> treatment on the stability of anthocyanin pigments in berries
ELHAM NIKKHAH, MASOUD KHAIAMY, REZA HEIDARY, and ALI SORAYAIE AZAR
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK-ULAKBIM)
RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
- Innovations in Educational Robotics: Advancing Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development
AS Azar, T Elyas, M Muthmainnah, S Curle
IGI Global Publishing 2025 - Transformative Approaches to STEAM Integration in Modern Education
SK Behera, A Sorayyaei Azar, S Curle, JG Dials
IGI Global 2025 - The Effects of EFL Classroom Environment, Collaborative Learning, Students’ Motivation in Learning, EFL Teachers’ Support on Student's performance: An Empirical Literature Review
AS Azar, OB Keat
International Theory and Practice in Humanities and Social Sciences 1 (1 2024 - Bilingual development in children with autism: Benefits and supporting strategies
Y Kurniawan, W Rahmat, AS Azar
Jurnal Gramatika: Jurnal Penelitian Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia 2024 - Preconceptions of policies, strategies, and challenges in education 5.0
A Sorayyaei Azar, A Albattat, M Valeri, V Hassan
IGI Global 2024 - The Effects of Performance Appraisal on Secondary School Teachers' Work Engagement in China-Based on the Mediating Effect of Teacher Identity
G Chang, AR Albattat, AS Azar
International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research 23 (1 2024 - Navigating education 5.0 robotic technique for teaching foreign languages in todays classroom: Unveiling the potential of virtual pedagogical agents
M Muthmainnah, E Apriani, AG Marzuki, A Al Yakin, N Aeni, AS Azar, ...
Preconceptions of Policies, Strategies, and Challenges in Education 5.0, 118-138 2024 - The Impact of Transformational Leadership on the Work Performance of University Teachers through the Mediation of Organization Culture: Literature Review.
L Chunhui, AS Azar, A Ahmad
UCJC Business & Society Review 2024 - Full-Time Teachers' Teaching Strategies and the role of Universities and Families on Students' Achievement with Financial Difficulties
W Meiping, AS Azar, A Ahmad
Journal of Law and Sustainable Development 11 (12), e1409-e1409 2023 - The Mediating Effect of Students Engagement on Leadership Skills of Full-Time Teachers' Teaching Strategies on Students' Achievement with Financial Difficulties
W Meiping, AS Azar, A Ahmad
Journal of Law and Sustainable Development 11 (12), e1410-e1410 2023 - The Charismatic Aspects of Transformational Leadership and their Prediction of the University teacher’s Work Engagement: the Mediating Effect of Trust in Leaders
C Lin, AS Azar, A Ahmad
Journal of Law and Sustainable Development 11 (9), e1601-e1601 2023 - Socio-economic factors are the main factors affecting organ donation
M Li, H Li, AS Azar
Revista da Associao Mdica Brasileira 69 (10), e20230940 2023 - The Key Connection Between the Elements of Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) and Mathematics Performance: Literature Review
A Shaheema, AS Azar, A Albattat
Education Quarterly Reviews 6 (3), 154-160 2023 - Factors Affecting Students Performance Mediated by Teachers Quality in Higher Vocational Colleges in Maoming City, China
Q Guo, AS Azar, A Albattat
International Journal of Professional Business Review (JPB Review) 8 (8), 1-21 2023 - Factors Affecting Teachers Quality in Higher Vocational Colleges in Maoming City, China
Q Guo, AS Azar, A Albattat
International Journal of Professional Business Review (JPB Review) 8 (8), 1-19 2023 - Dialectical materialism and teaching by words and deeds applied to the education of clinical medical students
M Li, AS Azar
Frontiers in Medicine 10 2023 - The Effects of Charismatic Aspects of Transformational Leadership on Personal Outcomes: An Empirical Literature Review
L Chunhui, AS Azar, A Ahmad
Education Quarterly Reviews 6 (2), 211-220 2023 - Text presentation or video: Malaysian university students’ preferences with synchronous and asynchronous learning
AS Azar, NHI Tan
Education and Information Technologies 2023 - Management Strategies that Influence Teacher Quality and Students’ Performance in Higher Vocational Colleges
Q Guo, AS Azar, A Albattat
International Journal of Inclusive and Sustainable Education 2 (3), 69-78 2023 - The Impact of Self-motivation on the Effective Job Performance of Staff: A Case Study of a Private Hospital in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
E Juliana Adnan, AS Azar
Education Quarterly Reviews 6 (2), 11-28 2023
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
- Learners’ attitudes toward the effectiveness of mobile assisted language learning (MALL) in L2 listening comprehension
AS Azar, H Nasiri
Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences 98, 1836-1843 2014
Citations: 225 - The application of ICT techs (mobile-assisted language learning, gamification, and virtual reality) in teaching English for secondary school students in Malaysia during covid
AS Azar, NHI Tan
Universal Journal of Educational Research 8 (11C), 55-63 2020
Citations: 106 - Motivation in second language acquisition among learners in Malaysia
AS Azar, D Tanggaraju
Studies in English language and education 7 (2), 323-333 2020
Citations: 97 - The effect of ascorbic acid and H_2O_2 treatment on the stability of anthocyanin pigments in berries
E Nikkhah, M Khaiamy, R Heidary, AS Azar
Turkish Journal of Biology 34 (1), 47-53 2010
Citations: 49 - The self-promotion of academic textbooks in the preface section: A genre analysis
AS Azar
Atlantis 34 (2), 147-166 2012
Citations: 32 - The Impact of Effective Educational Leadership on School Students' Performance in Malaysia.
AS Azar, EJ Adnan
Education Quarterly Reviews 3 (2), 146-155 2020
Citations: 28 - The impact of attitude markers on enhancing evaluation in the review article genre
AS Azar, A Hashim
GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies 19 (1) 2019
Citations: 28 - Iranian EFL learners’ attitudes toward correction of oral errors
AS Azar, S Molavi
The European Journal of Social & Behavioural Sciences 2013
Citations: 25 - Metadiscourse in applied linguistics research articles: A cross-sectional survey
AS Azar
published three times a year, by Mediterranean Center of Social and 2012
Citations: 21 - A Stylistic Analysis of “Maria” in “Clay”: The Character in James Joyce’s Short Story’
AS Azar, NS Yazdchi
Journal of Basic and Applied Scientific Research 2 (2), 1050-1055 2012
Citations: 21 - The effectiveness of hospitality experiential learning from academic and industry perspectives
AS Azar, A Albattat, AY Kamaruddin
Journal of Critical Reviews 7 (12), 296-301 2020
Citations: 19 - Collaborative Learning in the Classroom: The Study of Malaysian University Students' Attitude.
AS Azar, OB Keat, JS Arutus
Ilkogretim Online 20 (4) 2021
Citations: 17 - Towards an Analysis of Review Article in Applied Linguistics: Its Classes, Purposes and Characteristics.
AS Azar, A Hashim
English Language Teaching 7 (10), 76-88 2014
Citations: 17 - A comparative study of the inclusive education policy in Vietnam and Malaysia: Proposed solutions for sustainable development education in Vietnam
PHT Linh, AS Azar
Education Quarterly Reviews 2 (3) 2019
Citations: 16 - Interaction markers in the written output of learners of English: The case of gender
D Kuhi, A Shomoossi, N Shomoossi, AS Azar
Journal of Education 1 (2), 79-90 2012
Citations: 16 - Analysing authorial identity construction in the review article genre in Applied Linguistics
AS Azar, A Hashim
Studies in English Language and Education 9 (1), 94-114 2022
Citations: 12 - Text presentation or video: Malaysian university students’ preferences with synchronous and asynchronous learning
AS Azar, NHI Tan
Education and Information Technologies 2023
Citations: 10 - Factors Affecting Malaysian Undergraduate Students' Motivation in Improving English Proficiency in Academic Environments
AS Azar, SABM Sahar
Higher Education Challenges in South-East Asia, 35-73 2021
Citations: 10 - Analysing the macroorganisational structure of the review article genre in applied linguistics
AS AZAR, A HASHIM
Issues in Language Studies 6 (1) 2017
Citations: 10 - The Impact of Transformational Leadership on the Work Performance of University Teachers through the Mediation of Organization Culture: Literature Review.
L Chunhui, AS Azar, A Ahmad
UCJC Business & Society Review 2024
Citations: 9