Improving Teaching through Triadic Course Alignment

Improving Creativity through Pictorial Teaching of Farsi

Improving Creativity through Pictorial Teaching of Farsi   B. Akbari Mobaarakeh* Z. Abaazari, Ph.D.** N. Rahmati*** Z. Mirhoseini, Ph.D.****   To show that pictorial teaching of Farsi can improve creativity, a cluster sample of 320 female 6th graders was divided into two groups one of which was taught Farsi using the pictorial approach for a semester. The two groups’ crea...

Enhancing teaching through constructive alignment

Two lines of thinking are becoming increasingly important in higher educational practice. The first derives from constructivist learning theory, and the second from the instructional design literature. Constructivism comprises a family of theories but all have in common the centrality of the learner's activities in creating meaning. These and related ideas have important implications for teachi...

Lexical alignment in triadic communication

Lexical alignment refers to the adoption of one's interlocutor's lexical items. Accounts of the mechanisms underlying such lexical alignment differ (among other aspects) in the role assigned to addressee-centered behavior. In this study, we used a triadic communicative situation to test which factors may modulate the extent to which participants' lexical alignment reflects addressee-centered be...

Improving Teaching through Lesson Study

Reflective Teaching through Videotaping in an English Teaching Course in Iran

The purpose of this study was to investigate videotaping as a strategy for EFL teachers’ reflective teaching. To this end, eight participants were selected from a language institute in Iran and were under investigation for over a period of one month and a half. The data were triangulated from different sources: videotaping; self-reflection sheets; and semi-structured interviews. The analysis of...