the present study pursued two goals: first, to discover the subscales underlying the teacher status scale (tss); and second, to reveal the status of the teachers of persian, arabic, and english in iranian junior high school students’ perceptions in order to determine the relative roles of national, religious, and western influences in the identity construction of the students. the data was coll...

The present study aimed to examine the attitudes and types of metaphorical perceptions male female prospective English teachers (PETs) towards their learning process. Elicitation sheet with prompt “English is (like) … because …†was used collect data. data were qualitatively analyzed by listing, naming, categorizing, determining metaphors. results elicited metaphors reveal that PETs’ p...

A community of practice may shape and reshape the identity of members of the community through providing them with situated learning or learning environment. This study, therefore, is to clarify the salient learning-based features of the language teaching community of practice that might formulate the identity of language teachers. To this end, the study examined how learning situations in two ...

The unprecedented growth of English and arrival of English as an International Language (EIL) has generated a new fledged argument about English language teachers’ role and status around the world. To date, much of the debate on the native/non-native distinction in EIL settings and factors contributing to sharpen distinctions has remained unsettled. This gap motivated this study on the English ...

This study aimed to develop and validate an instrument to evaluate English language teachers’ lesson plan- ning self-concept. To this end, 30 English teachers were asked to prepare a sample lesson plan and 15 of them were invited to participate in a semi-structured interview. A tentative questionnaire including six fac- tors namely: classroom management, lesson planning conformity, planning eff...

the present article arises from a three-year cross sectional investigation into english language teaching (elt) in secondary schools in iran and the role of communicative pedagogy within this. the study has examined the extent of communicative pedagogy within the iranian national elt curriculum, the elt programme and to some extent the english language coursebooks used in secondary schools. wha...