Alternative assessments have evolved from an epistemological change in education. They see assessment and instruction as two sides on the same coin which go hand in hand. The traditional roles of both teachers and learners are, consequently, modified which is essential for better language development. In this line, the present study aimed at comparing the effects of portfolio and journal writin...

Researchers have historically noted the importance of Dynamic Assessment and its effect on students’ language learning. DA offers teachers and learners vast opportunities for language teaching and learning. The present article can be considered as part of the recent trend in the field of language teaching. It attempts to describe Dynamic Assessment and review the literature on the effect of DA ...

anguage assessment literacy (LAL), mainly defined as knowledge and skills of language assessment, in the last two decades, has started to receive the attention it deserves. As one of the significant findings, based on a plethora of research, many second language (L2) teachers have been indicated to be professionally incompetent in terms of LAL. To investigate the status of LAL among Ira...

abstract this study aimed to investigate how english language teaching textbooks portrayed male and female social actors according to their social roles and gender identities. to examine the linguistic representation of male and female social actors and construction of gender identities in elt textbooks, top notch series was selected. to do so, attempts were made to analyze the series in terms ...

Derived from the emerging paradigm shift in English language teaching and assessment, there has been a renewal of interest in dynamic assessment (DA) to be used as an alternative to the traditional static testing in language classrooms. However, to date, DA practice has been mostly limited to clinical treatments of children with learning disabilities, and it has not been widely incorporated int...

mystical language with its different kinds is the language that gnostics express their experiences, affections, eminent and deep mystical senses. the purpose of this article is to study the features of shams tabrizi’s mythical language. this study will make the reader more familiar with the language of mawlana and will lead him to a better understanding of mawlana’s instructions. it will also p...