Teachers’ notions about their communicative competencies

Developing communicative competencies for a learning organization

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the developmental needs of managers operating in continuous change contexts. Special attention is drawn to communicative competences through the use of Kent and Taylor’s (2002) five principles of dialogic communication. A case study is used to illustrate the communicative challenges in creating a learning organization. Methodology: The rese...

Empowering Teachers with ICT Competencies

Educational systems around the world are under increasing pressure to use the new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to provide students the knowledge and skill they need in the 21 Century, [1]: “designing and implementing successful ICT-enabled teacher education programmes is the key to fundamental, wide-ranging educational reforms”, [1]. Starting 1993, in the University of Unive...

Teachers and Technology: Enhancing Technology Competencies for Preservice Teachers

Exploring Teachers’ Perception of Intercultural Communicative Competence and their Practices for Teaching Culture in EFL Classrooms

This study aimed to examine the effect of EFL teachers’ level of instruction, education, and experience on their perceptions of Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) on the one hand and the effect of teachers’ ICC perceptions on their practices of teaching culture on the other. The participants of this study were 111 EFL teachers (59 males, 52 females), selected through purposive samplin...

the effect of efl teachers beliefs about teaching reading strategies on their students success and motivation in reading comprehension

previous studies regarding teachers’ beliefs have revealed that teachers’ beliefs have influence on their classroom practices. the current study aimed to investigate the effect of teachers’ beliefs about teaching reading strategies on students’ motivation and success in reading comprehension in the context of english teaching as a foreign language in high schools of mazandaran, iran. data were ...