Learning from Others: Literacy Perspectives of Middle-School English Teachers

investigating email literacy of iranian students’ learning english

abstract this study aimed at analyzing a corpus of emails gathered from iranian students studying in england. the corpus contained 996 emails that were investigated by employing the framework of chen (2006) to find common patterns in the discourse of these emails. another aim of the study was to find how two request acts (want statements and query preparatory) were used in the emails. the...

efl home literacy practices of iranian middle school students: an ethnography

موضوع آموزش زبان انگلیسی و کسب مهارت در آن همواره مورد توجه کارشناسان، خانواده ها و معلمان قرار داشته است. امروزه این مهم، با گسترش نیازها و تنوع کاربرد های آن، بیش از هر زمان دیگری به مطالعه و تحلیل نیاز دارد. بر اساس یک رویکرد فرهنگی- اجتماعی به آموزش و سواد، این مطالعه کیفی در پی آن است تا با شیوه قوم نگاری((ethnography، توصیف و تحلیلی از مجموعه فعالیت های آموزشی در خانه( (home literacy ...

Educational challenges of Afghan High school students in Iran from the perspectives of English language teachers: Tehran Province

It is more than 30 years that Afghan people immigrate to Iran. This paper aims to find out the educational challenges Afghan High School students face in Iranian schools based on English teachers’ perspectives in Tehran province. This research is qualitative and its kind is deductive. Based on the theoretical foundations of migration, relevant studies, especially the research of Sadegh Mousavi ...

Running Head: TEACHERS’ EXPECTATIONS OF MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS Teachers’ Expectations of Middle School Students

Jie Y . Park All the Ways of Reading Literature : Preservice English Teachers ’ Perspectives on Disciplinary Literacy

In recent years the field of literacy education and research has seen an increased attention to disciplinary literacy instruction—the teaching of discipline-specific and valued ways of reading, writing, knowing, and communicating knowledge. This article is about disciplinary literacy, specifically disciplinary reading as it is understood by preservice teachers of English language arts. Data wer...