Internationalization is listed as one of the main goals Federal University Santa Maria in its Institutional Development Plan for period 2016-2026, and use English a Medium Instruction (EMI) pointed out document strategies to achieve this goal. Although it unofficially known institution that graduate classes some areas are already taught English, there no systematic information about these exper...

205 Steven A. Meyers is a professor of psychology at Roosevelt University in Chicago. His research interests include parent-child relations, effective college instruction, and faculty development. [email protected] Copyright © 2009 Heldref Publications Abstract. The author integrates research and theory to suggest that caring is an important dimension of effective college teaching. Despite ...

This qualitative research investigates the perspectives of Vietnamese English majors on intercultural understanding. Twenty EFL students from a university in south Vietnam participated semi-structured interviews. The majority participants recognized significance understanding language learning with various benefits. also identified difficulties communicating effectively across cultures, accordi...

This paper investigated the ways Iranian B.A and M.A students of English language and their professors represent themselves linguistically in their e-mails in general, and the ways they construct and negotiate power with regard to social and cultural norms in particular. It examined 84 e-mail messages students and professors exchanged in 2012-2013 academic year through Halliday`s Systemic Funct...

Student evaluations provide rich information about teaching performance, but a number of factors beyond teacher effectiveness influence student evaluations. In this study we examined the effects of professor gender and perceived age on ratings of effectiveness and rapport as well as academic performance. We also asked students to rate professor attractiveness as a potential explanation for grou...