The present study firstly explores teacher mental images and understandings of the concepts ‘parent’ through metaphor analysis secondly examines how leaders differ in terms perceptions about ‘parents. primary objective this is to uncover leaders' implicit attitudes ‘parents’ order contribute parental involvement initiatives undertaken by teacher. adopts a mixed-design methodology. Teacher were ...

this study reports a mixed methods design investigation into language teachers’ conception of research. the study drew on various sources of data, including teachers’ responses to questionnaires items, qualitative comments in follow-up interviews, and contributions to e-mail inquiries. results showed that the teachers’ understanding of research is mainly associated with a standard view of resea...

  Abstract The present study aims at analyzing EFL learners’ attitudes towards motivating factors in learning vocab-ulary. A mixed-methods approach was used to conduct the study. In the qualitative analysis, Iranian EFL learners’ attitudes towards learning vocabulary were investigated through a semi-structured interview en-compassing 36 participants. Subsequently, a 56-item ‘motivation for v...