the global spread of english, co-occurring with globalization, has generated new views towards some issues in english language teaching, one of which being the place of home culture versus foreign language culture in english language classes. the following study aimed to compare the viewpoint of three groups, i.e. language teachers, language learners and parents regarding the role of home cultu...

different factors determine language teachers’ degree of success in their teaching practices. among these factors, teachers’ own learning experience can play a pivotal role since it affects teachers’ attitudes toward aspects of the knowledge they are to teach. educators and researchers may have paid less attention to an indispensable component of teachers’ learning experience: learning strategi...

this study deals with teaching the verbal meaning networks in second/foreign language, and evaluates the effects of this kind of teaching on the learning process of foreign persian language learners. for this purpose, a pretest was carried out among 50 foreign language learners, from which 30 individuals were selected for this research based on their scores. the subjects were divided into two g...

The article is devoted to the problem of increasing the efficiency of language teaching for the special purposes of foreign students in studying Russian at a technical university. Particular attention is paid to the training of foreign students in the skills of working with information using the latest computer technology. The conclusions of the work are based on the analysis of the results of ...

this study was an attempt to explore the beliefs of iranian efl teachers about the role of grammar in english language teaching in both state schools and private language institutes. data were collected through a questionnaire developed by burgess and etherington (2002), which consisted of 11 main subscales and was divided into two sections. the first section dealt with approaches to grammar te...

This study sought to compare Iranian EFL novice and expert teachers regarding their professional knowledge at Iranian language institutes and universities. To achieve the aim of study, a questionnaire was developed based on the literature, the theoretical framework and the results of a qualitative study. This questionnaire was administered to the whole sample of the study who was 200 Iranian EF...

This study sought to compare Iranian EFL novice and expert teachers regarding their professional knowledge at Iranian language institutes and universities. To achieve the aim of study, a questionnaire was developed based on the literature, the theoretical framework and the results of a qualitative study carried out by Yazdanpanah and Sahragard (2017). This questionnaire was administered to the ...

to improve the position of persian as a scientific language, an organized program is required on the basis of the modern methodologies in teaching persian to speakers of other languages (tpsol), which is more obvious in regard to the rapid development of technology where traditional class-based education is being evolved into the modern computer-based one, with a tendency to a combination of bo...