this study was an attempt to investigate iranian efl teachers’ beliefs about effective teaching in foreign language classrooms. more specifically, the study addresses the need for a clear understanding of the role of teaching effectiveness in efl classrooms by looking at iranian efl teachers’ own beliefs. to this end, 90 iranian efl instructors of the english language voluntarily participated i...

Abstract: Over the last few decades, several aspects of pragmatic knowledge and its effects on teaching  and  learning  a  second  language  (L2)  have  been  explored  in  many  studies.  However, among  various  studies,  the  area  of  interlanguage  pragmatic  (ILP)  assessment  is  quite  novel issue and many features of it have remained unnoticed. As ILP assessment has received more atten...

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...

background and purpose: this study intends to identify the numbers and some characteristics of the teachers of various english courses offered at medical universities affiliated to the ministry of health during the second semester of the academic year 2005-6. methods: the methods used in this research were “gathering existing data”, and “descriptive study”. the research was conducted by sending...

in order to develop an understanding of the rhetorical conventions in the persian language and to find out the metadiscursive cultural norms of iranian writers in their native language writings, it is necessary to probe into the implicit rhetorical features of academic writing which has so far eluded a comprehensive systematic characterization. metadiscourse marking, which is supposed to be one...

English has evolved into an internationally-used language due to the increase in number of its learners. With growing demand for learing, over last 30 years, topic Native English-Speaking Teachers and Non-Native become a debate. Thus, purpose current mixed method study was find out students’ teachers’ perceptions attitudes towards NESTs NNESTs Kurdistan Region Iraq. Since have not been explored...

from paper presented at BAAL IC SIG Annual Seminar:Language Teaching and Language Learning, University of Edinburgh, March 2014. The main aim of the talk is to explore the role of (critical) cultural awareness in teachertraining pedagogies. Based on the assumption that language teachers want to develop theirstudents’ intercultural communicative competence (ICC), it behoves the teach...