This study concerns determining the factors that may influence the communication skill of those university teachers involved in the field of agricultural sciences in Iran. Accordingly, based on a cross-sectional survey method, a conceptual model of communication skill has been devised through reviewing the related literature. Next, the model was revised by the expert panel of the study into a s...

Abstract Instructional videos are widely used to study teachers’ professional vision. A new technological development in video research is mobile eye-tracking (MET). It has the potential provide fine-grained insights into vision action, but yet been scarcely employed. We addressed this gap by using MET feedback examine how expert and novice teachers differed their noticing weighing of alternati...

The article aims to analyze meanings underlying the popular concepts of a good teacher, efficient novice, expert and experienced non-expert from diachronic perspective. Criteria used across developmental stages second language acquisition/ foreign teaching in process teacher accreditation are examined, as well social contexts influencing evaluation. Reasons for teachers’ dissatisfaction with Eu...

The present paper seeks to investigate the cognitive abilities of expert EFL teachers. To this aim, the existing literature was examined and ten cognitive themes were derived which were further investigated through interviews conducted with ten academics, teacher trainers and exemplary teachers of the field in the Iranian context. The ten extracted themes were attested by interviewees’ comments...

This study reports on the development and validation of a questionnaire for exploring the different types of EFL teachers’ possible selves. First, a theoretical framework behind possible selves theory and its types was cultivated through an extensive review of the related literature and content analysis of 24 transcribed semi-structured interviews with ELT experts. Second, the questionn...