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...

Methods: We first reviewed relevant documents of English language education in China to identify the overlaps and inconsistencies in the curricular requirements at different educational stages. We then explored the need for improving the transparency in policies and practices of English language education. Finally, challenges facing the development and implementation of the CSE were discussed b...

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to analyze how research approaches and methods in language education policy could serve erase local multilingualism its associated epistemologies while reproducing inequalities languages. This builds on “epistemicide” (Santos, Boaventura de Sousa. 2014. Epistemologies the South: Justice against epistemicide . New York: Routledge) critique knowledge construc...

due to the british hegemony of iran in both pre- and post-constitutional revolutionary periods (1906-1911), the iranian legal system was expected to be influenced by british common law following the establishment of the modern government after the revolution. but it did not happen for various legal and non-legal reasons. a major legal reason could be iranians’ long history of acquaintance with ...

objectives: profound hearing loss encounters children with delay in speech and language. as it is known language acquisition in young deaf children is a lengthy process, but cochlear implanted children have better spoken language skills than if they had not received the device. according to the importance of cochlear implant in deaf child's language development, this study evaluates the ef...

We investigate the causal effect of parents’ linguistic skills on intergenerational language transmission in a bilingual society. consider case Catalonia, where two main speech communities, Spanish and Catalan, are similar sizes, both languages official, exploit natural experiment generated by language-in-education reform. discuss theoretically alternative channels through which such policies m...

This chapter focuses on critical aspects, not usually discussed, in the field of language education. Its main purpose is to examine the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of language education in the context of e-learning, in particular in global learning via MOOCs. The literature on the use of information and communication technology (ICT) has highlighted how the new learning environments and to...