Teaching  English  in  an  Iranian  and  Islamic  culture  poses  complex  questions  for  both  teachers and learners. In this paper, the authors intend to shed light on what it means to teach English as a  foreign  language  (TEFL)  in  an  Islamic-Iranian  context.  Having  reviewed  the  colonial  and postmodern views of English language teaching, the authors took a look beyond the current ...

ESL educators find themselves teaching a diverse group of students in today’s classroom. This study investigated how ESL instructors address diversity in their teaching. The literature review revealed research on the experiences of teachers using culturally responsive teaching strategies. Using qualitative research methods, this study explores the participants’ subjective teaching experiences i...

This talk describes the Situated Culture approach to teaching foreign language and culture, employed in Alelo’s language and culture training learning environments. To support this work we have developed a framework for structuring cultural knowledge and implementing it in interactive learning experiences. This work has broader implications for modeling cultural differences in intelligent tutor...

Online Journal of Cultural Competence in Nursing and Healthcare Vol. 1, No. 1, 2011 ABSTRACT The purpose of this ethnonursing research study was to discover nursing faculty care practices that support teaching students to provide culturally congruent care within baccalaureate programs in urban and rural universities in the Southeastern United States. Twenty seven Angloand African-American facul...

The objective of this study was to analyze how Didactic Culture influences the faculty performance in a business administration program. In order to achieve that goal, it was necessary to create the concept of Didactic Culture. The instrument used for data collection was the in-depth interview. The research problem: How does didactic culture influence teacher performance in a business administr...

English as a lingua franca (ELF) research highlights the complexity and fluidity of culture in intercultural communication through English. ELF users draw on, construct, and move between global, national, and local orientations towards cultural characterisations. Thus, the relationship between language and culture is best approached as situated and emergent. However, this has chal­ lenged previ...

Medical professionalism is a multi-dimensional construct. Teaching the culture-specific, context-based and societal characteristics of medical professional are challenging. This work identifies the teaching strategies for medical professionalism drawn from the published articles that have validated their effectiveness through some objective measures. In May 2016, the databases of ISI web of kno...