abstract the present study aims to evaluate efl course contents used in language schools and institutes in teh-ran. to that end, 230 participants in tehran were conveniently sampled. at the outset of the study, two questionnaires were given to all groups, and according to their responses, the data were analyzed. each of the questionnaires was given to participants individually. each group had...

This study examines the reliability of automatic speech recognition (ASR) software used to teach English pronunciation, focusing on one particular piece of software, FluSpeak, as a typical example. Thirty-six Korean English as a Foreign Language (EFL) college students participated in an experiment in which they listened to 15 sentences that appeared in FluSpeak and recorded their voices, repeat...

There are many approaches that need to inform education systems around the world. It also matters to know whether policymakers have followed (for example), a socialist or an individualist approach in formulating an education system. Furthermore, teachers and other role-players need to understand the paradigm that undergirds their system of education. This article focuses on the ideas of Stephen...

Purpose – First, to explore the application of e-learning as a medium for workplace learning, as a form of adult learning and organisational learning from a theoretical point of view, second, to review empirical studies on recent solutions to pedagogical problems encountered in workplace learning in general and in e-learning in particular, and finally, to consider the challenges facing the furt...

Reconciliating the logics of Post-method Era, Critical Pedagogy, and Sociocultural Theory in its conceptual framework, this study postulated Iranian EFL teachers’ socio-pedagogical identity as comprising conformity, criticality, and conformity-criticality mediation in order to explore and model the different aspects of Iranian EFL teachers’ “transformative teaching self,” probably contributing ...

A general inequality –established in [1]– relating the relative total energy of probability densities, their Wasserstein distance and their production entropy functional, is shown to easily imply most known geometrical –Gaussian and Euclidean– inequalities. Some of the implications are known but included here for pedagogical reasons.

For 10 years, the authors of this article have examined cognitive, affective, and linguistic influences on foreign language learning. They have proposed the Linguistic Coding Differences Hypothesis (LCDH) as a model for understanding foreign language learning problems. The authors review their empirical support for the LCDH and explain the diagnostic, pedagogical, and policy implications of the...

This paper compares four hand-held electronic dictionaries with two paper-printed versions. The results show that the four different pocket electronic dictionaries contain less information than their paper-printed counterparts. Based on the results of the study, some pedagogical implications are drawn.

While many areas of e-commerce have attracted extensive research efforts, little has been explored on educational and pedagogical challenges in this field. This paper describes the development, implementation and evaluation of a learning cycle for e-commerce courses. The paper concludes with a summary of findings and implications for the future design of similar courses.

This is a pedagogical review of the recent observational data obtained from type Ia supernova surveys that support the accelerating expansion of the universe. The methods for the analysis of the data are reviewed and the theoretical implications obtained from their analysis are discussed.