abstract the present study aims to evaluate efl course contents used in language schools and institutes in teh-ran. to that end, 230 participants in tehran were conveniently sampled. at the outset of the study, two questionnaires were given to all groups, and according to their responses, the data were analyzed. each of the questionnaires was given to participants individually. each group had...

Several empirical studies have been carried out with college students as subjects in the last few years. These studies are often used by researchers as pilot experiments before they are carried out in industrial environments. Reports on these studies usually focus on the results obtained and issues such as their external validity. However, the effects and value of empirical studies with student...

  Abstract The present study aims to evaluate EFL course contents used in language schools and institutes in Teh-ran. To that end, 230 participants in Tehran were conveniently sampled. At the outset of the study, two questionnaires were given to all groups, and according to their responses, the data were analyzed. Each of the questionnaires was given to participants individually. Each group ...

The purpose of this study is to develop a survey of technological pedagogical and content knowledge (TPACK). The survey consists of seven subscales forming the TPACK model: 1) technology knowledge (TK), 2) pedagogy knowledge (PK), 3) content knowledge (CK), 4) technological pedagogical knowledge (TPK), 5) technological content knowledge (TCK), 6) pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), and 7) TPAC...

test washback is generally defined as the influence of tests on teaching and learning process. inspired by messick’s consequential validity and shohamy’s critical language testing, this critical impact study explored the transformative or reproductive practices different stakeholders undertake in relation to the detrimental impacts of konkoor in iran. the participants were 60 efl teachers, a sa...

“It seems to me that we have been wrong to discard Montessori altogether . . . ,” said Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaia at a Moscow gathering of teachers of zero-level groups in 1931. It is worth recalling that Nadezhda Konstantinovna more than once drew the attention of preschool upbringing theoreticians and practitioners to the necessity of making a critical study of the pedagogical views an...

The field of MALL (Mobile Assisted Language Learning) is in its golden era. Nowadays, there are more than 80,000 apps on the market, around 30,000 of which are devoted to language learning, especially English. Most of them have been developed outside the academic world. [Calle-Martínez et al., 13] and [Martín Monje et al., 14] suggest that, although several studies assess and propose rubrics to...