The impetus behind the current study was to get the best use of all possible pathways of the learner’s brain. Multiple-pathway model, one model of brain-based instruction, on which the current study was based, has synergic effect addressing sensory-motor, emotion, reward, attention, memory, language, frontal lobe (executive function), and social pathways of the learner’s brain altogether. To th...

Thesis acknowledgement is a written genre in which MA graduate students offer their gratitude to individuals, who have contributed to the completion of their study. The aim of the current study was to examine the thesis acknowledgements written by Iranian MA students in the field of Persian Language Teaching to Non-Persian Speakers (Amouzeshe Zaban e Farsi be Kharejian, AZFA) and TEFL in terms ...

Students-teachers are students who study to become Teaching English as a Foreign language (TEFL) teachers. They receive teaching trainings, observe certified teachers’ teachings performance, and do some supervised practices in EFL classrooms for the elementary secondary stages. The current aims at presenting supplementary program support practical course on methods of foreign stage. has been de...

This study sought to measures the foreign language classroom anxiety of English Department students a university in Indonesia and compare across independent demographic variables gender length at department. The literature shows that learning affects one’s achievements language. Data were collected through administration adapted version Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale 96 selected strat...

Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) represents an innovative method of language instruction where learners acquire skills indirectly by engaging in purposeful tasks. Despite its popularity English as a Foreign (TEFL) circles, particularly the realms reading and writing, there has been notable scarcity research on TBLT concerning interplay between theoretical concepts practical application, doma...

The outbreak of COVID-19 worldwide in 2020 has posed tremendous challenges to higher education globally. Teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) is among the many areas affected by pandemic. unexpected transition online teaching increased for improving and/or retaining students’ proficiency. WeChat, popular social application China, was widely used TEFL at Chinese universities before COVI...

This cross-sectional study explored the reasons behind academic failure among Iranian students of teaching English as a foreign language. Interviews were used to collect data from 56 graduate (19 men and 37 women) three officials university. Results indicated that four main factors led students, namely, (1) student, (2) professor, (3) university, (4) source materials. Moreover, results chi-squa...

Although some piecemeal efforts have been made to investigate the validity and use of the Iranian PhD exam, no systematic project has been specifically carried out in this regard. The current study, hence, tried to attend to this void. As such, to ensure a balanced focus on test interpretation and test consequence, and to track evidence derived from a mixed–method study on the validity of Irani...