During the past several decades, scholarly consideration has focused on the concept of teacher knowledge and a variety of reform efforts to rethink both the structure and practices of teacher education to enhance teacher preparation process. As a consequence, the tripartite knowledge base of EFL teacher training is built on the partnership between universities and schools to support student tea...

Teachers are a vital element in education development as effective teachers central resource for the success of an educational organization. Effective generally help to improve students’ learning behaviors and academic performance, thus attention needs be given examining teacher effectiveness key guaranteed quality. As students first direct stakeholders, should have most influential voice what ...

As reflective practice has become an influential factor in teacher professional development, teachers need some techniques to enhance their reflective teaching. In this light, this study was intended to examine: (a) whether self-evaluation techniques could promote English as Foreign Language (EFL) teachers’ reflective teaching, (b) whether EFL teachers who used self-evaluation techniques would ...

Writing patterns of a Chinese English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learner were analyzed as a case study from linguistic, pragmatic, and psycholinguistic perspectives. Alternative assessments were used by American pre-service teachers and a Taiwanese EFL instructor for rating linguistic developmental problems referring to format, style, syntax, and grammar. In addition, researchers conducted dee...

as a source of motivation for efl teachers in their work environment, their satisfaction with their manager’s behavior comprises the basis of the present study. through triangulation and employment of two types of interview, a regular one and an innovative adaptive type, we elicited iranian efl teachers’ perception of their managers’ management skills in the private sector. the two data were th...

every language involves friendly and polite as well as hostile and impolite situationsin which language users have to use the context-appropriate language. however,unlike politeness which has generated a great number of studies, few studies havebeen conducted on impoliteness especially in efl contexts. the present study aimedto see whether language learners and teachers hold the same idea conce...