some engravings are meant to be adored and some possibly abhorred. teacher cognition, as a meant-to-be-praised engraving, is defined by borg (2003, p. 81) as “the unobservable cognitive dimension of teaching what teachers know, believe, and think.” this concept in teaching has recently gained momentum meaning that teachers learn so much about their teaching through the vast experience they have...

Abstract Literature review indicates that an effective and good teacher has an important role in students' performances and their success. Pivotal roles of teachers may affect students’ attitudes and motivations to language learning. Improving the field of foreign language teaching and learning without improving the qualities of EFL teachers seems impossible. This attempt, at first hand, requir...

the present study pursued two goals: first, to discover the subscales underlying the teacher status scale (tss); and second, to reveal the status of the teachers of persian, arabic, and english in iranian junior high school students’ perceptions in order to determine the relative roles of national, religious, and western influences in the identity construction of the students. the data was coll...

This article will discuss the crucial role of the language teacher and their beliefs in realizing the potential that rapidly evolving technology-mediated tools offer second/additional language learning. Factors contributing to teacher resistance will be reviewed including the unique pedagogical demands of continually evolving technology-mediated communication tools and learning environments. Re...

Abstract Literature review indicates that an effective and good teacher has an important role in students' performances and their success. Pivotal roles of teachers may affect students’ attitudes and motivations to language learning. Improving the field of foreign language teaching and learning without improving the qualities of EFL teachers seems impossible. This attempt, at first hand, requir...

The present study was aimed at investigating intermediate Iranian EFL learners’ feedback preferences on their L2 writing and examining the possible differences between learners with entity and incremental language mindsets with respect to their feedback preferences. To this end, 150 EFL learners were recruited from several language institutes in Isfahan, Iran, and their language proficiency lev...