Intasc Standard Cores: Raising Students’ English Modality Competence

Reconsidering Raising and Experiencers in English

In this paper, structures involving the raising verb seem, are examined. Specifically, it is shown that previously-proposed elementary trees for seem with an experiencer argument are inadequate, based upon syntactic testing. In Storoshenko (2006), new articulated structures for the seem predicate are proposed, modelled upon the treatment of ditransitive verbs. This paper recapitulates and furth...

Investigating English Teachers' Awareness of Pedagogical Competence and its Effect on Students' Language Learning

The study examined the impact of high school English teachers’ awareness of pedagogical competence on student learning. A psychometric measurement instrument of English language teachers' pedagogical competence (ELTPC) was first developed through factor analysis with 320 high school teachers in Guilan, Northern Iran. Based on the developed instrument, 36 teachers were divided into two groups of...

Investigating English Teachers' Awareness of Pedagogical Competence and its Effect on Students' Language Learning

The study examined the impact of high school English teachers’ awareness of pedagogical competence on student learning. A psychometric measurement instrument of English language teachers' pedagogical competence (ELTPC) was first developed through factor analysis with 320 high school teachers in Guilan, Northern Iran. Based on the developed instrument, 36 teachers were divided into two groups of...

The Effect of High School English Teachers' Awareness of Pedagogical Competence on Students' Learning Achievements

The study examined the impact of high school English teachers’ awareness of pedagogical competence on student learning. A psychometric measurement instrument of English language teachers' pedagogical competence (ELTPC) was first developed through factor analysis with 320 high school teachers in Guilan, Northern Iran. Based on the developed instrument, 36 teachers were divided into two groups of...

The acquisition of English modality by Iranian EFL learners