This paper explores male and female students' and teachers' perceptions of the role of grammar instruction and corrective feedback. A questionnaire, administered to 60 male and female intermediate EFL students (30 males and 30 females) and 40 teachers (20 males and 20 females), elicited student and teacher perceptions concerning the role of explicit grammar instruction and corrective feedback i...

This study examined (in)congruences between beliefs and practices of EFL university teachers on in-class oral corrective feedback (OCF). The participants were 20 English language from a private in Turkey. Data collected via video-recorded non-participant detached observation, task about OCF to determine the teachers, stimulated recall interview. results showed incongruence what said they believ...

maslach and jackson first introduced the concept of ‘burnout’- a state of physical and emotional exhaus- tion emerging from work conditions- in 1980. the importance of investigations of burn out lies in the fact that it is directly related to the quality of teaching. there are three basic criteria set to predict, evaluate, and prevent burnout: depersonalization, emotional exhaustion, and person...

The study investigated instructors’ beliefs about the nature of L2 writing, teaching and assessing using inventory interview data from 106 instructors in Turkish EFL context. results showed that although value process-oriented genre-oriented approaches to they cannot disregard product-oriented approach. It was also found do not have sufficient knowledge writing assessment terminology digital to...