Content Area Reading and Writing: Practices and Beliefs

Comparing Competitive and Cooperative Content-Based Instruction in Reading and Writing Classes

Differences in Reading Beliefs/Practices of L2 Teachers: Undergraduate versus Graduate Degree Holders

In their attempt to shed light on the factors contributing to the incongruity between L2 reading teachers’ beliefs and practices, most of the researchers have resorted to teachers’ personal perspectives. As a partial replication of the research carried out by Karimi and Dehghani (2016), the current study sought to broaden this restricted scope by examining the role of te...

The Effect of Critical Thinking on Reading and Writing Skills of Islamic Azad University Students in Third Area

This paper tries to evaluate the rate and the effect of critical thinking on reading and writing skills of students at I.A.U of district 3. Those who study library and Information science. More than 113 student were chosen for sampling analysis and Wilcakson analytical indexes were used for interpreting the results. SPSS analysis shows that the aching those skills can increase the students read...

Exploring Iranian EAP Teachers’ Pedagogic Content Knowledge and Teaching Practices, and Students’ Beliefs about EAP Teachers’ Methodology

The systematic study of EAP teachers’ pedagogic content knowledge and their actual teaching practices in class is a fresh avenue in applied linguistics, especially in contexts like Iran, where, EAP courses are taught by two groups of teachers with different specializations; i.e., language teachers and content teachers. This study explored the similarities and differences between language teache...

Comparing Learners’ Writing Self Beliefs: High Achievers versus Low Achievers

The purpose of the present study was to compare writing high achievers and low achievers TEFL (teaching English as foreign language) learners’ writing self-beliefs. Subjects, based on their officially recorded scores on the writing course, were assigned in two 22-member groups of high and low achievers. The adapted English version of Mills’ and Péron’s (2008) questionnaire and the Foreign Langu...