Teaching the learners with a migrant background – teachers’ perspectives

Challenges in Promoting EFL Learners' Autonomy: Iranian EFL Teachers’ Perspectives

Learner autonomy (LA) has always been a controversial issue among applied linguists. Several studies have been carried out to investigate the teachers' and learners' perceptions of learner autonomy as well as the feasibility of learner autonomy. Despite the importance of learner autonomy and the existence of several related studies, the challenges in promoting LA in Iranian institutes to the re...

a tripartite model of efl teachers attributions, burnout, and ‎self-regulation: towards the prospects of effective teaching

همطالعه حاضر به ارائه مدلی برای آموزش موثر زبان انگلیسی ‏می پردازد. مدل حاضر از سه عامل تاثیر گذار در کارایی ‏تدریس معلمان زبان انگلیسی بهره می برد. این سه عامل شامل ‏سبکهای اسنادی، خود تنطیمی و فرسودگی شغلی معلمان ایرانی ‏زبان انگلیسی می باشد. رساله مورد نظر درچهار فاز طراحی ‏شده است: فاز اول شامل طراحی و رواسازی پرسشنامه سبکهای ‏اسنادی معلمان زبان انگلیسی و فاز دوم شامل استفاده از ‏این پرسشنا...

Migrant ESOL Learners: a Foucauldian Discourse Analysis

Transformational Learners: Transformational Teachers

Transformational learning, according to Mezirow (1981), involves transforming taken-for-granted frames of reference into more discriminating, flexible ‘habits of mind’. In teacher education, transformative learning impacts on the development of students’ action theories, self-efficacy and professional attributes. Although considered imperative to reflective practice, not all students take a tra...

Improving the professional status of teaching: perspectives of future teachers, current teachers, and education professors

A US national sample of 2947 future teachers, 457 current teachers, and 1219 education faculty members was asked to rate the importance of various suggestions for improving the professional status of teaching. The results indicated that future teachers differed from current teachers and education professors. The results also suggested that all these groups rated increasing extrinsic and intrins...