This paper explores interdisciplinary collaboration in English language teaching from a new perspective by analysing the reflections of three subject teachers. Their thoughts provide valuable insights for English language teachers when they pursue collaboration with subject teachers. The three subject teachers worked closely with the researcher on a web-based essay writing teaching project whic...

Founded by eight secondary English teachers in Seoul in the summer of 1988, the Korean English Teachers’ Group (KETG) started as a professional book discussion group. Its first ‘office’ was a small coffee table in the living room of a female teacher’s home. The teachers gathered over the weekend and discussed professional books or sets of articles mainly focused on educational philosophy and so...

teaching english for specific purposes (tesp) has been a controversial issue among efl teachers and others. the question raised by many is whether the english language instructor or the subject-matter specialist should teach esp courses. the main purpose of the present study was to re-address this issue. to this end, 60 second-year students majoring in feqh and islamic law at islamic azad unive...

This study aimed to develop and validate an instrument to evaluate English language teachers’ lesson plan- ning self-concept. To this end, 30 English teachers were asked to prepare a sample lesson plan and 15 of them were invited to participate in a semi-structured interview. A tentative questionnaire including six fac- tors namely: classroom management, lesson planning conformity, planning eff...

English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP) uses the results of needs analysis for curriculum development and materials production. ESAP courses should be based on students’ academic needs. Consequently, the present study investigated the English language needs of Iranian undergraduate students of Law. Participants included 218 undergraduate students, 33 graduate students, and 10 content teac...

Modern teaching, the increasing use of modern teaching methods, especially multimedia plays an increasingly important role in teaching. Compared with the traditional English teaching methods, the advantages of multimedia is obvious. Correct and reasonable use of multimedia courseware, teaching English will play a more important role, and how to design multimedia courseware has also become the m...

this study was an attempt to explore the beliefs of iranian efl teachers about the role of grammar in english language teaching in both state schools and private language institutes. data were collected through a questionnaire developed by burgess and etherington (2002), which consisted of 11 main subscales and was divided into two sections. the first section dealt with approaches to grammar te...

This paper reports a study of Malaysian primary school teachers’ grammatical awareness. In particular, the study seeks to examine the English language teachers’ nature and level of grammatical awareness. Questionnaire and interview techniques were used to elicit data from primary school teachers who were following their B. Ed TESOL programme in Universiti Sains Malaysia in 2006 and 2007. Findin...

In the available teacher development literature, the linkage between teaching experience, as one the crucial factors in teacher development (Tsui, 2005), and English teachers’ job performance with regard to gender differences has remain widely underexplored. To fill up this lacuna, this study investigated whether there was any significant correlation between Iranian English teachers’ years of e...