Purpose The present study aims to examine the attitudes of future Saudi female English as a Foreign Language (EFL) student-teachers toward native-like pronunciation investigate their misconceptions about Lingua Franca (ELF). Design/methodology/approach researcher used questionnaire collect data for study. Findings results indicate that students and teachers have positive pronunciation. However,...

In recent years, young college English teachers’ professional development has become a core issue. The traditional training of young teachers ignored the empirical, experiencing and diversifying nature of language teachers’ professional development. From the perspective of constructivism, this paper elaborates the impacts of teaching reflection on young college English teachers and highlights f...

The aim of the present study is threefold. The first is that whether there is any difference betweendifferent proficiency level language learners 'use of spatial prepositions. The Second aim is toreveal that if the native language of the participants has any effect on applying the appropriateprepositions and also to find which spatial preposition is difficult to acquire. The present paperexamin...

the present study is an investigation into the relationship between iranian efl teachers’ degree of creativity and language learners’ academic achievement. to this end, six female english teachers and 81 male and female advanced english learners from a private language institute were asked to take part in the study. data were collected through torrance test of creative thinking (ttct) and stude...

This study seeks to investigate the thematic features of research article abstracts written by Indonesian and English-Native speakers in language education learning. With a huge interest international publication among Indonesians, many go for academic journals that have standard style native English language. Thus, lexical patterns manuscript must meet criteria make possible, otherwise is not ...

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...

Recent research has shown that academic writing is not ‘author-evacuated’ but, rather, carries a representation of the writers’ identity. One way through which writers project their identity in academic writing is stance-taking toward propositions advanced in the text. Appropriate stance-taking has proved to be challenging for novice writers of Research Articles (RAs), especially those writing ...

Abstract The present study aimed at investigating the relationship between three main characteristics of teachers; namely, perfectionism, leadership and empowerment, amongst Iranian English and math teachers. To do so, two groups of teachers were selected to participate in this study. One consisted of 177 math teachers and the other comprised 200 English teachers. All were teaching in Khorasan ...