This study examines the potential connections among learners’ willingness to communicate (WTC) in English, their perceptions of autonomy-supportive teaching and two individual difference variables, i.e. motivation and English speaking self-efficacy. Two hundred and five Iranian EFL learners responded to four questionnaires. The data obtained from the collected instruments were...

This study examined pre-service teachers’ mentoring processes and challenges. The interview protocol was used to collect qualitative data. Five teachers were investigated. Pre-service experienced different processes. five frequency, content, support, feedback varied. Most mentored on a regular basis. Mentoring usually occurs before after the teaching practice. content of covers pedagogy, materi...

english passive has always been regarded as a challenge by farsi-speaking efl learners. despite the presence of many linguistic and pedagogical approaches in studying and teaching english passive, there still appears to be a pedagogical gap facing farsi-speaking efl learners dealing with this construction. taking up the cognitive-construction grammar perspective, the present article aims to inv...

This article demonstrates an ESP lesson plan to teach English listening and speaking for 49 EFL college students in hospitality fields, i.e. Western Culinary Arts and Bakery Technology and Management in Taiwan. This ESP class is content-based, featuring a combination of language-oriented, skills-oriented and learning-oriented approaches to ESP syllabus design. The syllabus aims at reaching sati...

although story mapping strategy has been shown to be beneficial in many reading comprehension classes, the benefits of this technique have not been thoroughly investigated in l2 writing research. the small number of previous studies (e.g., li, 2007; brunner, 2010) have found the potential benefits of using story mapping strategy on students’ writing performance, but they did not focus on differ...

The concepts of the resourcefulness of technology and the advantages of using computer technology on teaching and learning have been wildly accepted. This study is to elaborate curriculum design for language teaching and learning and to make it leaner-centered, aiming to design a commu nity-technology and Internet based English course for college EFL students in Taiwan. Through technology tools...

In our previous research a linear readability formula was developed through a series of multiple regression analyses using four independent variables: (1) sentence length, (2) word length, (3) textbook-based word difficulty and (4) textbook-based idiom difficulty, and one dependent variable: year level of EFL textbook. The present study attempts to develop a new readability formula that include...

The present study aimed at furthering the understanding of the potential effects of e-learner characteristics on e-learner satisfaction in an EFL context. Specifically, it examined the collective impact of computer anxiety, computer-mediated communication (CMC) apprehension, metacognitive self-regulation strategy use, mastery goal orientation, and performance goal orientation on EFL e-learner s...

Teacher autonomy (TA) in parallel with learner affects the standards of education. In this survey, relationship between teachers’ was focused on along second language teaching styles and personality traits. To respond to three research questions, required data were gathered through convenience sampling by online distributing sets questionnaires, namely Pearson Moomaw’s Autonomy Scale, Grasha’s ...