Teaching English for Specific Purposes (TESP) has been a controversial issue among EFL teachers and others. The question raised by many is whether the English language instructor or the subject-matter specialist should teach ESP courses. The main purpose of the present study was to re-address this issue. To this end, 60 second-year students majoring in Feqh and Islamic Law at Islamic Azad Unive...

This article explores teachers’ experiences in preparing to enact a new senior secondary school subject, psychology, Queensland, Australia, at time of major curriculum reform. In this study, 62 teachers completed an online survey about their on the eve enactment. From ecological lens, data were analyzed via descriptive statistics and content analysis before thematic open-ended responses. Teache...

Content and Language integrated learning (CLIL) revolves around the dual goal of language acquisition content knowledge; therefore, cross-curricular collaboration between teachers is one key factors for success CLIL education. This study investigates multiple aspects in a Vietnamese program, including teachers’ beliefs about pedagogic roles, professional support provided, actual implemented. Da...

Sex education used to be a very sensitive or taboo subject matter to be taught in Malaysian schools however it has been introduced indirectly to Malaysian Secondary School and Primary School in 1989 and 1994 consecutively. This effort though appears not good enough as crime index statistics of rape cases produced in Malaysian police report showed that steady and double increment cases occur eac...

A convenient way to improve K-12 teachers’ understanding of engineering and technology is to use experts in these areas as resources. The Tufts University Student Teacher Outreach Mentorship Program (STOMP) model forms collaborations between undergraduate or graduate students and classroom teachers to take advantage of each party’s expertise. These undergraduate and graduate students, or STOMP ...

Article History: Received 06.04.2013 Received in revised form 16.05.2013 Accepted 28.05.2013 Available online 05.08.2013 This study was prepared to analyze biology teachers’ responsibility beliefs for student academic successes and failures in terms of different variables. The data were collected with Teachers’ Responsibility for Student Achievement Scale, Teachers’ Sense of Self-efficacy Scale...