Special issue: English teaching and teacher expertise

Editorial: Special issue on teaching and training

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Special Issue

Cognitive Aspects of Teacher Expertise in ELT

The present paper seeks to investigate the cognitive abilities of expert EFL teachers. To this aim, the existing literature was examined and ten cognitive themes were derived which were further investigated through interviews conducted with ten academics, teacher trainers and exemplary teachers of the field in the Iranian context. The ten extracted themes were attested by interviewees’ comments...

English Teacher

I would contend, however, that the significance of online communication lies not in its separation from the real world, but on its impact on nearly every single aspect of the real world. Just as there is no such thing as "speechspace" or "writingspace" or "printspace," so there is no cyberspace, and the notion of it is thus not helpful for understanding the very real impact of online networking...

Introduction to the Special Issue: Researching, Teaching, and Supporting Research Publication - Issues for Users of English as an Additional Language

The ‘industry’ of research publication has now grown to mammoth proportions and its participants—authors, reviewers, editors, publishers and more—come from increasingly diverse locations and backgrounds, including of language. However, the language in which the vast majority of this research is published is now English, a situation that incorporates both advantages and disadvantages for partici...