investigating the reliability and factor structure of the selfregulating capacity in vocabulary learning (srcvoc) in iranian efl context

The present study aimed to investigate the reliability and factor structure of the self-regulating capacity in vocabulary learning strategies scale (srcvoc) in the iranian efl context. to this end, the original (srcvoc) questionnaire (tseng, dornyei, & schmitt, 2006) was translated into persian, using a translation/back-translation procedure. then, the persian version of the srcvoc was piloted to 43 high school students and showed acceptable internal consistency reliability (α = .81). in the main phase of the study, a sample of 1167 high school students (grades 9-12) from fifteen high schools in three iranian cities completed the persian srcvoc. based on the results, the persian version of the scale demonstrated acceptable internal consistency reliability (α = 0.81). the factor structure of the translated version of the measure was investigated through a series of factor analyses. the results showed that the translated svlsq is composed of one dimension with five subcomponents, with a different factor structure as compared to the original questionnaire. the findings of the study suggest that the persian version of the svlsq is a reliable and valid instrument for measuring self-regulatory vocabulary learning strategies in iran.