Although statistics is an important compulsory course in a wide variety of disciplines, the vast majority students including TEFL postgraduate find it frightening and difficult to understand, thus suffer from underachievement. As result, specific kind anxiety called statistical emerges that requires immediate attention. To date, large growing body research has focused on exploring different asp...

Teaching  English  in  an  Iranian  and  Islamic  culture  poses  complex  questions  for  both  teachers and learners. In this paper, the authors intend to shed light on what it means to teach English as a  foreign  language  (TEFL)  in  an  Islamic-Iranian  context.  Having  reviewed  the  colonial  and postmodern views of English language teaching, the authors took a look beyond the current ...

Abstract It is acknowledged that assessment ethics an integral part of teacher education. Unlike sizable published research on students' perceptions in higher education, very little reported student teachers' across university-based education programs. This study aimed to explore Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) teachers’ the classroom. Qualitative (phone interview) data from 15 TE...

The present study was an attempt to investigate the washback effect of the TEFL MA University Entrance Exam on the teaching and learning behaviors of students and professors. The TEFL MA UEE consists of three sub-components that deal with particular aspects of applied linguistics; each of these parts measures the participants’ knowledge in linguistics, language testing, and teaching methodology...

although some piecemeal efforts have been made to investigate the validity and use of the iranian phd exam, no systematic project has been specifically carried out in this regard. the current study, hence, tried to attend to this void. as such, to ensure a balanced focus on test interpretation and test consequence, and to track evidence derived from a mixed–method study on the validity of irani...

The current global status of the English language as a lingua franca has been running several discussions in realm Teaching Foreign Language (TEFL) (ANJOS, 2019; 2017; SIQUEIRA, 2020; DUBOC; 2020). Accordingly, many research works, mostly those Lingua Franca (ELF) (JENKINS, 2009; SCHMITZ, 2012), corroborate need for new orientations TEFL based on native-speaker standards. In this paper, we argu...

abstract reading strategies are seen as supportive means to help learners process and comprehend english texts effectively. the present research probed to posit a discipline-specific model of reading strategies for iranian tefl postgraduate students. the motive behind developing a local model of reading strategy is twofold: first, a variety of postgraduate students admitted for m.a and ph.d. pr...