Different aspects of identity have been investigated across various educational fields. Although many studies have been done to investigate different aspects of EFL teachers’ identity development, there is a paucity of research on identity-oriented EFL teacher education programs. Hence, the purpose of the current study was to investigate EFL teacher educators’ and EFL teachers’ perspectives abo...

This case study explores the process of change in the instructional beliefs and practices of a science teacher participating in a university-elementary school collaborative science learning project in Taiwan. Multiple research methods were employed. Results show five stages of teacher change: (1) awareness of shortcomings of old strategy; (2) conviction of need for change and search for help; (...

This study aimed to examine the awareness of teacher candidates towards inclusive education. mixed method was performed with convergent parallel pattern. The sample quantitative part consisted 708 in an education faculty determined by criterion sampling. group qualitative research is 14 (preservice teachers) selected from among these participants. data were collected Awareness Scale for Inclusi...

The present paper seeks to investigate the cognitive abilities of expert EFL teachers. To this aim, the existing literature was examined and ten cognitive themes were derived which were further investigated through interviews conducted with ten academics, teacher trainers and exemplary teachers of the field in the Iranian context. The ten extracted themes were attested by interviewees’ comments...