This paper reports the results of a study of strategies that Dutch children with dyslexia employ to cope with recurrent academic failure. All of the students in the study had developed strategies for protecting their self-esteem. Using Harter's theory of coping with discrepancies between performance and standards, we distinguish four strategies: (1) working hard and committing to standards, (2)...

Educators are increasingly interested in applying neuroscience findings to improve educational practice. However, their understanding of the brain often lags behind their enthusiasm for the brain. We propose that educational psychology can serve as a bridge between basic research in neuroscience and psychology on one hand and educational practice on the other. We evaluated whether taking an edu...

The present article analyzes two critical frameworks within teacher education and how they construct preservice teachers their learning education. These of 'Apprenticeship Observation' (AoO) 'Ambitious Practice' (AP) opposing narratives about teachers. While AoO directs our attention to teachers' belief, AP emphasizes on developing professional practices that are core the work teaching. Teacher...

unlike teacher beliefs, there has been a dearth of study regarding efl learner beliefs. the reason can be that horwitz (1987) and the existing literature has predominantly been in an esl context. the present study reports the development and validation of a scale to measure the learner beliefs about language learning in iranian efl contexts. using a combination of verbal creativity method, inte...

This article aims to study the dynamic change of teachers’ beliefs among pre-service teachers. A longitudinal design was adopted investigate English language teaching (ELT) belief after a 3-month practicum by administering pretest and posttest questionnaires, semistructured interviews, reflective journals. Repeated measures paired sample t-test analyses showed significant differences across dif...