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Teachers expanding pedagogical content knowledge: learning about formative assessment together

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Innovative pedagogical and psychological perspectives of podcasts

Podcasting, being a new form of audio distribution offering the possibility to be loaded on personal mobile devices from teachers’, student’, university’s websites and blogs, is discussed as an activity with potential in learning and teaching. The existing and potential varieties of podcasts represent sources for learning, converging, socializing. In this paper, podcasting is supported as an in...

EFL Teacher Education in Iran: Does It Promote Trainees’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge?

Teacher education programs can play a principal role in helping prospective teachers to acquire requisite knowledge and skills. Vital to the issue of teacher education is the efficient evaluation of such programs in promoting prospective teachers’ knowledge base. However, the literature contains very few reports of the evaluation of the Iranian EFL preservice teacher education program, which is...

Creating Innovative Pedagogical Opportunities via “Treasure-HIT”

Pedagogical Agents: Pedagogical Interventions via Integration of Task-oriented and Socially Oriented Conversation