Teacher education philosophy plays an important role in enhancing the teachers’ awareness of the practices particularly in the context of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). This study meant to observe the possible effect of the awareness of teacher education philosophy on EFL teachers’ professional skill in the light of Kumaravadivelu’s postmethod parameters, tapping teachers’ gender, academi...

Although decades of research have well elaborated on teacher professional development, we still do not have a thorough picture about what teacher professional development could entail and what components it consists of. The present study aims to develop and validate a teacher professional development scale in an Iranian English foreign language context. An initial tentative model with 130 items...

I would contend, however, that the significance of online communication lies not in its separation from the real world, but on its impact on nearly every single aspect of the real world. Just as there is no such thing as "speechspace" or "writingspace" or "printspace," so there is no cyberspace, and the notion of it is thus not helpful for understanding the very real impact of online networking...

the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of morphology instruction through semantic mapping on vocabulary learning of iranian intermediate efl learners. to do so, 50 out of 70 students were se-lected from one english language institute by administrating a pet test. then, they were assigned into two groups randomly as experimental and control groups. a pretest (teacher made) was admin...

Framed in action research, the authors investigated perceptions and experiences of a cohort student-teachers as they learned about explored for first time teacher research self-contained module part four-year pre-service or initial English language education (IELTE) programme southern Argentina. The module, ‘Research Language Teaching’, ran from March–November 2018. It was led by educator based...

This case study evaluates the characteristics of classroom speech found in classes taught by non-native elementary school English language instructors in Japan using corpora compiled by the authors. A corpus of spoken language was compiled from the lessons using XML tagging that marked speaker turns, language use, and classroom interaction modes. We then performed quantitative analyses on both ...