In an attempt to liberate teachers from deficiencies of the conventional methods, Kumaravadivelu (1994) proposed the concept of “post method condition” to overcome the challenges caused by the very nature of methods. The literature regarding post-method pedagogy has indicated that most of the studies focus on its theoretical aspect, while the practical realization has been largely untouched. To...

Journal publication is one of the productive vehicles through which one’s contribution to the research community is expressed. However, it has been found to be a particularly challenging task for scholars who are not English native speakers (e.g. Flowerdew, 1999, 2000, 2001; Martinez, 2005; Sionis, 1995). Previous research has indicated that Chinese non-native writers of English may have diffic...

abstract literature review indicates that an effective and good teacher has an important role in students' performances and their success. pivotal roles of teachers may affect students’ attitudes and motivations to language learning. improving the field of foreign language teaching and learning without improving the qualities of efl teachers seems impossible. this attempt, at first hand, r...

Numerous research studies support the claim that affect plays a critical role in decision-making and performance as it influences cognitive processes [1] [2] [3]. Despite this body of research there is insufficient theory within educational pedagogy to recognize and address the role and function of affect. The innovative models and theories that have been proposed to facilitate advancement in t...

This research scrutinized the diffusion of a medical education pedagogy to the context of teacher education. Specifically, it focused on the use of standardized parents as an emerging pedagogy in teacher education. Preservice teachers taking part in a six case, fifteen-week intervention showed advances in multicultural awareness and ethical sensitivity as they engaged in multiple simulated pare...

This paper reports on a new pedagogy for Chinese language teaching and learning at elementary schools through exploratory classroom instruction using Information and Communication Technologies. The study used quantitative method to collect data from two elementary schools of China. The results showed that:(1) the three-in-one pedagogy of “character recognition, in-class reading and in-class wri...

Previous experimental studies have indicated that young people’s text comprehension and summarisation skills can be improved by techniques based on text concept mapping (TCM). However, these studies have done little to elucidate a pedagogy that can make the techniques adoptable within the context of typical secondary school classrooms. This paper explains how a collaborative research approach h...

The paper points to some possible advantages of translation as a language activity in the ESP/ESAP classroom well its role bringing fore aspects use that may not be always explicitly addressed by commonly used tasks communicative teaching. Attention is thus drawn diagnosing students’ competences with aim improving them and eventually developing their overall reading comprehension. Most conclusi...

This study examines the errors in tenses made by 34 secondary students Brunei who were asked to write a short story based on picture composition, with focus testing Krashen's Natural Order Hypothesis (NOH) L2 acquisition. The objective of is test theory NOH that irregular past tense acquired before regular through analysis verbs. collected data analyzed four steps error analysis: identification...

This paper investigated how production task combined with teacher feedback (in the form of recasts) affects child second language development, and effects complexity on their performance. 92 learners English in three intact classes were assigned to tasks different (simple, +complex, ++complex). In response errors use present third person singular verb forms, participants received recasts. L2 de...