Netbooks in sixth-grade English language classrooms

Task-based Language Teaching in L2 English Writing Classrooms: Insights from Chinese Senior Secondary Schools

There is little research on the task-based teaching approach in senior secondary L2 English writing classrooms. This study carried out an exploratory sequential mixed methods study to explore the suitability and adaptations of task-based language teaching in the domain of secondary schools in small cities. First, the researcher surveyed six EFL senior secondary teachers of different teaching ex...

team teaching in english for academic purpose classrooms

تحقیق حاضر به منظور بررسی کارآیی بین دو روش تدریس زبان انگلیسی با اهداف دانشگاهی به نامهای تدریس گروهی و تدریس انفرادی انجام شد. بدین منظور، سه کلاس انگلیسی با اهداف دانشگاهی مربوط به دانشجویان رشته جغرافیا، کامپیوتر و فقه و حقوق به روش گروهی توسط یک مدرس زبان انگلیسی و یک مدرس درس تخصصی در استان یزد در طول ترم پاییز سال تحصیلی 1390-1389 تدریس گردید. همزمان، سه کلاس زبان انگلیسی دیگر با اهداف د...

Assessment for/as Learning in Hong Kong English Language Classrooms: A Review

Multiple conceptualizations of the interrelation between assessment and learning yield three notions of assessment: assessment of learning, assessment for learning, and assessment as learning. This paper aims at uncovering roles and obstacles of assessment for learning and assessment as learning in English language classrooms in Hong Kong. Grounded upon the theory of constructivism and the noti...

Factors Underlying Characteristics of Acquisition of English Language in EFL Classrooms

This study tried to find out what factors underline the characteristics of acquisition of English language in EFL classrooms. To this end, the Characteristics of English Language Acquisition Scale (ELAS) consisting of 41 items was designed by the researchers of this study and administered to 388 pre University Iranian EFL students at various private and public schools in Neyshabour and Zebarkha...

Effects of Technology Immersion on Teaching and Learning: Evidence from Observations of Sixth-Grade Classrooms