This study investigated EFL teachers’ and students’ perspectives towards Audiotaped Oral Dialogue Journals (ATODJs), as a computer-mediated communication (CMC) and a Mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) task. The data came from 202 entries of ATODJs, gathered from15 female Iranian intermediate EFL learners. Teachers and students’ evaluations of the whole program comprised of the qualitative...

This study sought to compare Iranian EFL novice and expert teachers regarding their professional knowledge at Iranian language institutes and universities. To achieve the aim of study, a questionnaire was developed based on the literature, the theoretical framework and the results of a qualitative study. This questionnaire was administered to the whole sample of the study who was 200 Iranian EF...

This study sought to compare Iranian EFL novice and expert teachers regarding their professional knowledge at Iranian language institutes and universities. To achieve the aim of study, a questionnaire was developed based on the literature, the theoretical framework and the results of a qualitative study carried out by Yazdanpanah and Sahragard (2017). This questionnaire was administered to the ...

Educational technology with its wide variety of usage has assisted teachers and learners to learn from the material which been produced reviewed by experts. However, question may come mind concerning number applying such productions, how they perceive if use them, for what purpose them. This study was designed investigate Iranian Arabic teachers’ perception educational software. To find answer ...

language educators are required to reflect upon content delivered to the students. teaching strategies should be adapted to keep students loyal to cultural identity as well as foster resistance to oppressive policies dictated within english language curricula. despite the significance of applying critical principles by teachers, it is not known whether iranian elt instructors and subject teache...

It is imperative to understand the factor that influence teaching competency. Therefore, it is necessary to study those that have an impact on the process of acquiring teaching competency. Competent nurse teachers have an important role in the achievement of nursing students and improving the quality of nursing education. However, few researches have focused specifically on the process of acqui...

The present study investigates academic stress in two different cultures, the Iranian as a collectivist culture, and the Swedish as an individualist culture. A total of 616 university students (312 Iranian and 304 Swedish) participated in the study. The results show that Swedish students experience more academic stress than Iranian students. Academic stress was found to be related to difficulti...