This article reports on the first phase of a case study done by a Chinese post-secondary EFL reading teacher on her exploratory inquiry into the metacognitive teaching knowledge needed by EFL Reading teachers to teach summarizing strategies with expository text to EFL undergraduates. Guided by a formalized model of instructional materials development, Phase I was an exploring process, starting ...

Microteaching lesson study, that is a variation of study applied by student teachers in microteaching course, provides the environment for EFL to collaborate, engage, and reflect on their ideas, beliefs, teaching experiences. Such condition fertile ground enables teachers' beliefs language learning change. Recent studies show some education programs have changed teachers. However, no discussed ...

This study aimed at investigating the effect of using wikis to develop prospective English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers' writing performance. The participants were fourth year prospective EFL teachers at Suez Faculty of Education in Egypt. Thirty prospective EFL teachers participated in each of the experimental and control groups. Both groups were pre-tested by using the Writing Perform...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the Iranian EFL learners’ beliefs on the role of RL in vocabulary learning, and how it could affect their achievement. One-hundred and three students majoring in English (Literature, Translation, and Teaching) at the Departments of Foreign Languages and Linguistics at Roudehen and the Western Branch of Islamic Azad University participated in this stu...

Verschueren’s Linguistic Adaptation Theory (1999) provides the theoretical framework for the study on codeswitching in EFL classroom. It views code-switching as an adaptive phenomenon in the interaction between people and their conditions of life. Based on Verschueren’s Linguistic Adaptation Theory, the present paper gave a qualitative analysis of the adaptability that teachers’ code-switching ...

Pre-service teachers’ expectation in order to successfully carry out the instructional process classroom is for them create most of their educational experiences by conveying knowledge students. In this study, a case study was implemented, and it consisted eleven future English teachers participating microteaching practicum that led two senior lecturers. The whole parties were aware purpose inv...