Hamid Ashraf

Department of English, Torbat-e-Heydarieh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Torbat-e-Heydarieh, Iran

[ 1 ] - Do Critical Thinking Skills Lead to Success in Language Teaching? A Case of Iranian EFL Teachers Based on Their Gender and Degree of Education

The present study attempted to discover whether there is a significant relationship between EFL teachers' critical thinking ability and their teaching success.To this end, 113 Iranian male and female English teachers were required to fill out Watson Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal. Besides, their students were asked to answer the Characteristics of Successful EFL Teachers questionnaire. The ...

[ 2 ] - بررسی برنامه درسی کارشناسی ارشد مترجمی زبان انگلیسی در دانشگاه‌های برجسته آسیا

هدف از پژوهش حاضر تحلیل کیفی-تطبیقی اهداف، محتوا، ساختار دروس، و تعداد واحدهای برنامه‌درسی دوره کارشناسی‌ارشد مترجمی زبان انگلیسی در ایران با چند دانشگاه برجسته کشورهای آسیایی ‌است. برای دستیابی به این هدف برنامه درسی نه دانشگاه برجسته آسیایی مورد مطالعه قرار گرفت.در این پژوهش برنامه‌درسی دوره مذکور با پنج معیار: 1.عنوان دوره کارشناسی‌ارشد، 2. تعداد واحد ها و طول دوره، 3. ساختار دروس: اجباری و ...

[ 3 ] - Developing and Validating EFL Instructors’ Professional Commitment Questionnaire Through PLS-SEM

Universities require highly qualified and committed instructors to carry out the significant tasks of educating the future generation of the society. The primary interest of this study was to explore the construct of teacher commitment to determine its dimensions and components and finally design EFL Teachers’ Professional Commitment Questionnaire. First, through a thorough analysis of th...

[ 4 ] - A Comparative Study on Iranian EFL Teachers’ Awareness of Code of Ethics in Research: the Role of Gender and Years of Teaching Experience

This study is aimed at examining the role of gender, and years of teaching experience in Iranian EFL teachers’ awareness of the code of ethics in research. 272 Iranian EFL teachers were chosen based on convenience sampling and were assessed through the Iranian EFL teachers’ awareness of the code of ethics in research scale inventory. After gathering the questionnaires, data was analysed by SPSS...