Teaching in the cyberspace classroom requires that we move beyond old models of pedagogy into new practices that are more facilitative. Teaching in cyberspace involves much more than simply taking old models of pedagogy and transferring them to a different medium. Unlike the face-to-face classroom, in online distance education, attention needs to be paid to the development of a sense of communi...

This paper investigates learner-initiated responses to English language teachers’ referential questions and learner initiatives after teachers’ feedback moves in meaning-focused question-answer sequences to analyze how interactional practices of language teachers, their initiation and feedback moves, facilitate learner initiatives. Classroom discourse research has largely neglected learner init...

Web-based information and the traditional classroom: similarities and differences. In B. H. Khan (Ed.), Web-Based Instruction (pp. 41-46). Englewood Cliffs, New. strategies and the extent to which there was a difference in the use of the into specific instructional practices are: (1) identifying similarities and differences, (2) Marzano's 21 research-based instructional strategies in their clas...

the salient, and often ignored, role that out-of-class learning plays in second/foreign language (l2) learners’ development is overshadowed by classroom research. the main aim of this study is to problematize the role of out-of-class learning in the specific english-as-foreign-language (efl) context of iran by examination of the ways in which four learners attempted to revamp their english lang...

The paper approaches the issue of foreign language teachers’ classroom evaluation activity also known as formative assessment. authors review distinctions between conventional and assessment techniques prove that has certain advantages. It can be successfully used to evaluate current students’ progress long before examination take timely organizational methodological corrective actions. Such ty...

The present study aims to investigate the Indonesian secondary school teachers' perspectives of practicing their classroom management create a conducive environment for learning. This research method is qualitative study, which able explore participants regarding understanding and experience in managing classrooms this were two teachers who taught urban rural area. After negotiating with headma...

New approaches for teaching and assessing scientific inquiry and practices are essential for guiding students to make the informed decisions required of an increasingly complex and global society. The Science Skills approach described here guides students to develop an understanding of the experimental skills required to perform a scientific investigation. An individual teacher's investigation ...

The current study sought to explore the relationship between personal school physical education (PE) experiences and current PE teaching practices of classroom teachers. Questionnaires were completed by 189 teachers from 38 randomly selected schools. Additionally, semi-structured interviews of 31 classroom teachers were conducted. The results indicated that many teachers had negative memories o...

Central to the spirit of reflective teaching is the ability to focus critically on one’s own beliefs, cognitions, and concerns. Numerous proposals have been developed for implementing reflective practices in pre-service teacher education contexts with the aim of producing highly competent reflective teachers. However, it is imperative to identify the candidates’ beliefs and knowledge base befor...