the global spread of english, co-occurring with globalization, has generated new views towards some issues in english language teaching, one of which being the place of home culture versus foreign language culture in english language classes. the following study aimed to compare the viewpoint of three groups, i.e. language teachers, language learners and parents regarding the role of home cultu...

the present paper investigated the effectiveness of concept mapping as a learning strategy on efl students’ self-regulation (metacognitive self-regulation, time and study environment, effort regulation, peer learning, and help seeking). sixty university students participated in the study. they were randomly assigned to control and experimental groups, each including thirty students. they were a...

We present a content-independent formulation of higher cognitive pedagogy, by identifying higher cognitive pedagogy with executive function which in turn we equate with continual multi-dimensional processing of drivers of outcomes. The key focus in this definition is on multiple dimensions. We apply our definition to four diverse disciplines: a) mathematical modeling of verbal problems is prese...

Extensive reading (ER) is an instructional option steadily gaining support and recognition in second language (L2) reading pedagogy. Even though many attempts have been made to unravel the impact of ER on L2 development, there is a paucity of investigation into the affective domains of reading. The current study helps fill this gap by examining the effect of ER on L2 reading attitude. Participa...

ABSTRACT: Since the 1990s Ryuko Kubota has extensively researched race, identity, and critical approaches to teacher development in area of Applied Linguistics (AL). More recently, her last publications include relevance translanguaging ongoing work with Sister Scholars. As result our interest Kubota’s extremely significant discussions, this interview, points out challenges AL faced years, as w...

The needs and interests of online learners can be difficult to assess. Large, self-paced, open courses attract from different locations, ethnicities, educational backgrounds. It is critical that instructors institutions understand the their so curriculum pedagogy evolve. In this paper we consider preferences who are accessing asynchronous, self-selected, self-paced training content related entr...