critical thinking ability has an important role in education. accordingly, scholars around the world are searching for new ways for teaching and improving students critical thinking ability. in line with the studies in efl contexts supporting the positive relationship between critical thinking and writing performances, this study investigated the differential effects of halverson’s critical thi...

the present study was conducted to investigate the role of summary in teaching grammar process on pre-university students. to this end, 48 male pre-university students in semnan were participants. they were math class that we called experimental group and science class as control group. in order to make sure there was no significant difference in proficiency level of two groups. a pre-test wa...

iv abstract this study examined the linguistic behaviors of two iranian efl teachers each of them teaching learners of two similar proficiency levels, a beginner level and an intermediate level, to investigate the relationship between the learners proficiency levels and the amounts and purposes for l1 use by the two teachers. the study was carried out to investigate whether there were differe...

learning-oriented assessment seeks to emphasise that a fundamental purpose of assessment should be to promote learning. it mirrors formative assessment and assessment for learning processes. it can be defined as actions undertaken by teachers and / or students, which provide feedback for the improvement of teaching and learning. it also contrasts with equally important measurement-focused appro...

هدف این تحقیق، مقایسه نظریات استادان، فارغ التحصیلان و دانشجویان کارشناسی پیام نور درباره کتابهای خودخوان رشته مترجمی زبان انگلیسی است. در این تحقیق تعداد 20 استاد، 149 دانشجو و 40 فارغ التحصیل از رشته کارشناسی مترجمی زبان انگلیسی شرکت داشتند. روش بکار گرفته شده، محاسبه کَمّی از طریق بکارگیری یک پرسشنامه تستی ده قسمتی شامل 40 آیتم بود. برای آزمایش وجود ارتباط معنی دار بین هر دو گروه، روش آماری cr...

teachers’ beliefs greatly influence their performance in the classroom, their choice of instructional strategies, their way of controlling the class, their dealing with the students, and their general goals and objectives. one of these beliefs is teachers’ sense of efficacy which is viewed as an important construct and has shown to be positively correlated with students’ achievement (ross, 1992...