Language Teachers’ Evaluation of Curriculum Change: A Qualitative Study

Iranian Language Teachers’ Passion for the Profession: A Qualitative Study

To explore Iranian professionally developed English teachers’ passion for the English language teaching profession, an interview with 7 open-ended questions was conducted to 14 Iranian professionally developed teachers to discover what factors were at work in their professional growth. Participants included 8 Ph.D. holders, 3 Ph.D. candidates, and 3 M.A. holders in TEFL who had more than 20 yea...

teachers emotional intelligence, self-efficacy, and perceived english language proficiency: a case of iranian efl teachers

educational researchers have provided evidence that teachers’ emotional intelligence has strong effects on various aspects of teaching and learning. yet, in the field of teaching english to speakers of other languages (tesol), inquiry into teachers’ emotional intelligence is nearly limited. given its documented powerful impact on teaching practices and student learning, it is critical to pursue...

Exploring a Conceptual Framework for Evaluation of the Undergraduate Intended Curriculum: A Qualitative Study

تبیین چارچوب مفهومی ارزشیابی برنامه درسی قصد شده دوره کارشناسی: یک مطالعه کیفی   سیدعلی خالقی‌نژاد، حسن ملکی*، مقصود فراستخواه، عباس عباس‌پور     چکیده مقدمه: برنامه درسی از عناصر کلیدی آموزش عالی برای انتقال دانش، نگرش و مهارت به دانشجویان به شمار می‌آید که نیازمند تحلیل و بازنگری مداوم هستند. مطالعه حاضر با هدف ارائه چارچوب مفهومی ارزشیابی برنامه درسی قصد شده دوره کارشناسی صورت گرفت روش‌ها...

effects of first language on second language writing-a preliminary contrastive rhetoric study of farsi and english

to explore the idea the investingation proposed, aimed at finding whether the performances of the population of iranians students studying english in an efl context are consistent in l1 and l2 writing taks and whether there is a cross-linguistic transfer in this respect. in this regard the subjects were instructed to write four compositions-two in english and two in farsi-which consisted of an ...

Constructing the Curriculum: National Curriculum, Teachers' practice & Change