background: emotional intelligence (ei) helps humans to perceive their own and others’ emotions. it helps to make better interpersonal communication that consequently leads to an increase in everyday performance and professional career. teaching, particularly teaching in the clinical environment, is among the professions that need a high level of ei due to its relevance to human interactions. m...

this paper reports on an exploratory study that explores the instructional patterns within english as a foreign language (efl) secondary school classrooms in syria. recently, the syrian ministry of education (moe) has introduced a new national curriculum which recommends a shift in efl teachers’ instructional practices. despite this costly innovation, there has been no attempt to check whether ...

This paper concerns the conceptual and pedagogical issues that revolve around target language (TL) only instruction and teacher codeswitching in the context of TL classrooms. To this end, I first examine four intertwined ideas (that is, monolingualism, naturalism, native-speakerism, and absolutism) that run through the monolingual approach to TL teaching, with a discussion of why these assumpti...

this study was an attempt to investigate the relationship between efl teachers’ emotional intelligence (ei) and their effectiveness in managing young learners’ classrooms. a total of 25 female teachers of kish language school in tehran expressed their willingness to participate in this study and a briefing session was conducted for them. two sessions of each teacher’s classes were observed by t...

This study investigated the characteristics of effective secondary school Iranian EFL teachers from students’ and teachers’ perspectives. To this end, 376 junior secondary school students and 32 EFL teachers teaching at various Iranian secondary schools participated in the study. A validated open-ended questionnaire was distributed among the student and teacher participants and asked for their ...

Problem Statement: Student teachers’ beliefs and conceptions affect not only what and how they learn in teacher education programs, but also their future professional development in their teaching careers. Examining and understanding student teachers’ beliefs and conceptions is therefore crucial to improving their professional preparation and development, as well as the effectiveness of teacher...