The study examined the impact of high school English teachers’ awareness of pedagogical competence on student learning. A psychometric measurement instrument of English language teachers' pedagogical competence (ELTPC) was first developed through factor analysis with 320 high school teachers in Guilan, Northern Iran. Based on the developed instrument, 36 teachers were divided into two groups of...

This paper presents findings from an exploratory case study, with the purpose of illustrating how student teachers of English as a Second Language (ESL) in the United States and student teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Germany evaluated a blended learning course that focused on jointly creating Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) units via the Internet. This project enabled pa...

N ot long ago it was common to find instructors teaching languages, particularly Eng-lish in non-English-speaking countries, without a degree and with little to no experience or expertise. But today, governmental agencies like Mexico's Secretaría de Educación Pública (Ministry of Public Education) have begun to require that teachers have a degree that demonstrates sufficient skill and language ...

Procrastination pervades the long and taxing process of foreign language learning and working against it is crucial. This study attempted to elicit and investigate the strategies and solutions from English teachers and learners which can help in dealing with procrastination over weekly assignments, term projects, and preparing for exams. To achieve this aim, suggestions were sought from 46 Engl...

the potential of computers to support learning and teaching m almost all subject areas is now widely accepted. at ail levels of education computers aid teachers to enrich their learning/teaching environment. in the field of language education, especially english as a second/foreign language (esl/efl) computer-assisted learning has acted as an indirect boost to enhance language proficiency. whil...

The purpose of the study is to compare the writing proficiencies of firstand second-language learners and to examine their teachers’ beliefs about the writing students produce. The four fifth-graders were nominated by their teachers as either strong or weak writers. Text analysis methods were used to analyze the writing proficiencies manifested in the compositions and interviews with the teache...

the present study aimed at exploring the potential relationship between language learning strategies (lls) and factors such as major fields of study, sex, and language proficiency among university students across different fields such as medicine, sciences, engineering, humanities, and english. to this end, 200 master students were collected and tested. in addition, 25 english teachers were inc...