Revisiting Primary English Teachers’ Critical Reflections on Coursebook Usage

Critical Reflections on Regulation

reflections on taught courses of the iranian ma program in english translation: a mixed-methods study

the issue of curriculum and syllabus evaluation and revision has been in center of attention right from when curriculum came into attention of educational institutions. thus everywhere in the world in educational institutions curricula and syllabi are evaluated and revised based on the goals, the needs, existing content, etc.. in iran any curriculum is designed in a committee of specialists and...

Grammatical Awareness Among Primary School English Language Teachers

This paper reports a study of Malaysian primary school teachers’ grammatical awareness. In particular, the study seeks to examine the English language teachers’ nature and level of grammatical awareness. Questionnaire and interview techniques were used to elicit data from primary school teachers who were following their B. Ed TESOL programme in Universiti Sains Malaysia in 2006 and 2007. Findin...

Revisiting the Impacts of Teachers

Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff (2014a and 2014b) study value-added (VA) measures of teacher effectiveness. Exploiting teacher switches as a sort of quasi-experiment, the first paper investigates potential bias from student sorting to teachers, and concludes that any such bias is negligible. The second paper finds that VA scores are useful proxies for teachers’ effects on students’ long-run outco...

Critical Pedagogy in the Context of Iran: Exploring English Teachers’ Perceptions

Abstract:  Three  decades  ago,  the  theory  of  education  took  a  critical  turn.  From  this perspective,  classroom  is  no  longer  a  public  sphere  of  cultural  assimilation  but  a  site  for identity struggle. The basic argument underlying such an approach is that education cannot be studied in isolation from an analysis of wider social and cultural influences. In such a context, t...