different factors determine language teachers’ degree of success in their teaching practices. among these factors, teachers’ own learning experience can play a pivotal role since it affects teachers’ attitudes toward aspects of the knowledge they are to teach. educators and researchers may have paid less attention to an indispensable component of teachers’ learning experience: learning strategi...

this study investigated the cognition of 70 tunisian teachers on the place of culture in english education. it showed that tunisian teachers believe that english textbooks and curricular documents are not specific about the cultural dimension of efl. it also revealed that l2 teachers, whose mother culture is distant from that associated with l2, hold ambivalent attitudes towards culture. they a...

The MoE (Ministry of Education) in the state of Kuwait is starting to reform the science curriculum in all school academic stages: primary (1−5) grades, intermediate (6−9) grades, and secondary (10−12) grades. The purpose of this study was to explore the opinions of science teachers about Kuwait’s new sixth and seventh grade science curriculum, which was implemented in 2008. This study focused ...

This paper reports on the experiences of four Australian teachers who provide English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instruction to Indonesian secondary school students in a regional area of Central Java, Indonesia. These four teachers were all native English speakers and experienced qualified teachers, however, the Australian State Department of Education that sent them to Indonesia did not provi...

This paper presents the result of a research of ICT education in Ethiopian secondary schools, its status of implementation and suggests the way forward for future ICT education. The aim was to obtain an indication of the drawbacks of ICT curriculum. The research, with a convenience sample, was carried out using questionnaire, Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and observation (using a check list). Th...