Basic education is the core of development and progress in modern societies. It level that develops individual’s capacity to read, write calculate. Regardless this, previous researchers have highlighted need improve state educational facilities basic schools Ghana. After several attempts restructuring reforms, it not clear whether input factors improved. In this study, current junior high (JHSs...

This study aimed to investigate sources of motivation of English language teachers in Iranian public and private language schools. To this end, a Language Teacher Motivation Source (LTMS) questionnaire was developed on the basis of the related literature. The LTMS examined four sources of motivation, i. e., extrinsic (economic, social, emotional, educational), intrinsic, altruistic, and subject...

imported instructional English textbooks in Iran and the learners’ attitudes towards English. Further, the instructors’ awareness of these ideologies was examined through a questionnaire. To find the ideological values, a content analysis of conversations, texts, and  pictorial prompts in Spectrum and True to Life English textbook series was conducted and the extant ideologies were categorized ...

Green Dot Public Schools is a nonprofit organization that operates more than 20 public charter middle and high schools in California, Tennessee, and Washington. The Green Dot Public Schools are regulated and monitored by the local school district, but operate outside of the district’s direct control. The Green Dot Public Schools model emphasizes high quality teaching, strong school leadership, ...

The aims of this research then are to develop and provide vocational school students with a cultural-based English textbook for better understanding English. Based on mini-interview some teachers observation conducted in senior high schools Bangka Belitung, cultural aspect has never been introduced the classrooms due their limited teaching timing, diverse textbooks’ syllabus, various learning o...

This study was intended to examine the washback of General Secondary School English Exam on students’ practice. The conducted at three secondary schools in Debre Markos Town. 270 Grades 9 and 10 students were included. Questionnaire, focus group discussion (FGD), exam paper analysis classroom observation employed. questionnaire data analysed with mean per cent multiple regression analysis. Wher...

For the majority of people in Ireland, Irish is a second language acquired primarily through the schooling system. This study examined the reading strategies children used in response to English and Irish words (presented in isolation), through an analysis of their oral reading errors. Children in their 4 year of schooling attending English-medium schools, immersion schools, and Irish-medium sc...

The present qualitative research, for the first time, aimed at comparing and contrasting the extent cultural components and subcomponents are represented in the elementary levels of A Course in General Persian and Top Notch Series as foreign language teaching textbooks. The adapted checklist of Lee's Big ‘C' and little ‘c' cultural components (2009) was used for the current study.  After conten...