The present study investigates the benefits of implementing drama techniques in English language teaching. It also focuses on means and strategies creating a learner-centered classroom to enhance as Foreign Language learners’ communication skills. Two dramatic used research are exploiting scripted play improvisation. Teacher-researcher conducted qualitative method through case First-Year Master...

humanizing language learning materials helps language teachers to design activities that are linked to learn- ers’ lives and experiences. this can result in higher motivation and engagement in the process of foreign language learning. self-determination theory-based instruction enhances learners’ engagement and motiva- tion through supporting the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competen...

this study was framed on the theory of language socialisation and a systematic functional linguistic (sfl) approach. the aim of the study was to analyse the oral presentation discourse produced by an elemen- tary iranian english as second language (esl) postgraduate student in an american university four times (september/december, 2015 and march/september, 2016) over one year. the data were col...

This study sought to compare Iranian EFL novice and expert teachers regarding their professional knowledge at Iranian language institutes and universities. To achieve the aim of study, a questionnaire was developed based on the literature, the theoretical framework and the results of a qualitative study carried out by Yazdanpanah and Sahragard (2017). This questionnaire was administered to the ...

Although communicative language teaching (CLT) was thought to have revolutionized classroom practice, there are “weak” and “strong” versions (Howatt, 1984). Most foreign classrooms in the world still favor weak with structure-based (SB) views on (Lightbown & Spada, 2013), practice Netherlands is not much different (West Verspoor, 2016). However, a small group of teachers started French as s...

the teaching pack “sadal-hayat” (echo of life) is 13 educational books written by a number of iranian authors under the supervision of dr. masood fekri and printed the first time by iran language institute in tehran in 1385. st. / 2006 as well as books, software and other supplementary files by the same institute namely: “nadal-hayat” and “shathal-hayat” and “shahid wa taallam” and “majmoa qesa...