imported instructional English textbooks in Iran and the learners’ attitudes towards English. Further, the instructors’ awareness of these ideologies was examined through a questionnaire. To find the ideological values, a content analysis of conversations, texts, and  pictorial prompts in Spectrum and True to Life English textbook series was conducted and the extant ideologies were categorized ...

Health care workers especially medical students are at risk of acquiring infection through occupational exposure. Few studies have reported on medical students’ knowledge of standard precautions and sharp injuries and noted lack of adequate knowledge of standard precautions. To identify deficiencies which could be addressed by education and training, it is useful to measure KAP of medical stude...

abstract the present study aims at analyzing efl learners’ attitudes towards motivating factors in learning vocab-ulary. a mixed-methods approach was used to conduct the study. in the qualitative analysis, iranian efl learners’ attitudes towards learning vocabulary were investigated through a semi-structured interview en-compassing 36 participants. subsequently, a 56-item ‘motivation for voca...

Language is an important tool of communication, especially in a foreign setting. Foreign language teachers, help their students to access experiences by reason ability communicate with nationals. Teachers’ motivation however influences education and its effectiveness. The aim this study examine the predictive effect teachers' motivations on attitudes towards distance education. For purpose, 356...

This article analyzes language attitudes towards Spanish and English in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory since 1898, seek to answer the following three questions: are conflicting elements Rican society? Is symbol of identity for Ricans? Does bilingualism represent threat ethno-sociolinguistic existence By examining an online questionnaire on completed by participants living I argue that Ricans is ...