Reflections on the relationship between Iranian ELT researchers and practitioners suggest that research-practice gap has been an endemic feature of our language education programs. This issue has recently become a prime concern for many educational researchers, policy makers and other stakeholders. As such, calls for empirical investigations of measures to be taken in order to improve the relat...

Drawing on Robinson’s cognition hypothesis, the study attempted to examine how task conditions influence EFL learners’ oral performance and whether learners’ individual differences in terms of tolerance of ambiguity and self-efficacy mediate the effects of such conditions. To this end, 62 Iranian intermediate EFL learners from private language institutes in Tehran performed four dyadic decision...

the present study was conductedto investigate the relationship among the components of teachers’ burnout, emotional intelligence, and reflectivity with a sample of 125 iranian efl teachers from several private language institutes in kurdistan and hamedan. moreover, differences in the components of teachers’ burnout, emotional intelligence, and reflectivity were examined with respect to teachers...

The study investigated the relationship between Iranian EFL teachers' perception of critical pedagogy (CP) and reflective teaching (RT), the possible effect of gender, academic degree, and teaching experience on teachers’ perceptions of CP, the possible differences among the three groups of teachers of universities, public schools and private language institutes regarding their perception of CP...

This study focuses on the processes & relationships between foreign language learner's identity and interaction proficiency associated with learning English in private institutes Iranian context, especially, participants' beliefs about languages views question are analyzed. analysis integrates speaker's practices to issues of construction negotiation that observable two contexts. Some as a ...

Abstract The changing culture toward multimodality enforces acquiring visual literacy in every aspect of today’s modern life. One of the fields intermingled with using various modes in different variations is language teaching and learning, especially for and by young learners. Young language learners’ (5-12 years old) lack of world experience forces them to make the most use of non-verbal mode...

[ 411 ] Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal Vol. 14, No. 4, 411–425 © 2004 by the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature Produced at the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Box 571212, Washington, DC 20057-1212. The Center operates on a contract with the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. A...

Nowadays computers are increasingly being incorporated into school curriculums and serious games are occupying the educational games markets. This article addressed the integration of serious games as tools for learning and teaching English in Iranian schools to zero-beginner students. An experiment was concluded using Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) to investigate the effectiveness ...