This study documents a teacher-researcher’s presentations of 24 literary works to a class of 28 Taiwanese EFL senior high school students during a fourteen-week experiment, and reports on those students’ perceptions of the texts introduced and their attitudes towards literature in general. In preparing literary texts, the teacher explored the notion of computer assisted literature teaching (CAL...

In an attempt to enact equitable practices in U.S. public schools, many critical multicultural and anti-racist theorists, researchers, and practitioners strongly suggest that teacher educators move beyond diversity approaches to multicultural education in their teacher preparation programs to address the more uncomfortable issues of power and equity—namely, racism (Banks & McGee-Banks, 2006; Le...

Higher education institutions should provide adequate training for teachers in order to increase their awareness of the complex interplay between technology, pedagogy and the cognitive knowledge in their disciplines. However, research has shown that providing effective staff development by teacher educators to support these teachers’ skills is not straightforward. An online teacher training pro...

A growing number of educators are using social networking sites (SNS) to communicate with their students. Facebook is one such example which is widely used by students and educators. Facebook has been recently used by many educational institutions but most of these have been related to provide the information to the general audience. There has not been much study done to propose Facebook as an ...

Discursive practices enacted by educators in kindergarten create a blueprint for how the educational trajectories of students with disabilities are constructed. This two-year ethnographic case study critically examines educators’ relationships with students considered to present challenging behaviors in one kindergarten classroom located in a predominantly White middle class school district in ...

Integrating HOTS (high order thinking skill) in EFL classes is one of the interesting and important issues context teaching English to improve students’ creativity make them create their own innovation process learning class. Based on Bloom’s revised taxonomy that educators (teacher or lecturer) are not only encouraged teach four skills language (speaking, reading, writing, listening) writer ju...

A variety of approaches exist in foreign language teaching and learning; Task-based Learning (TBL) is one them. It an innovative approach that developed from the Communicative Approach. The concepts TBL have proven successful classrooms. In this study, writer conducted a literature review task-based learning English dealing with benefits problems implementing Indonesia. This paper seeks to (TBL...

The study of English language teachers’ cognitions and its relationship to teachers’ classroom practices have recently been the focus of language teaching and teacher education (Borg, 2006 & 2010). However, rarely have the studies delved into teachers’ knowledge about grammar (reviewed by Borg, 2001) or investigated the relationships between teachers’ knowledge about grammar and teachers’ actio...

The outbreak of COVID-19 has induced an abrupt shift from face-to-face instruction to online delivery mode for academic continuity. This research aims explore the ecology pandemic-induced English as foreign language (EFL) classrooms in Chinese middle schools and perceptions held by teachers, students, parents. By analyzing data collected 10, 576 questionnaires eleven interviews, this study reve...