Pronunciation scoring is one important task for software designed to give feedback to students practicing a second language. English intonation can convey information about a speaker’s nativeness, so previous studies have proposed using intonation-based models to score nonnative pronunciation. One past approach trained models for a set of pronunciation scores using ad hoc features derived from ...

it is argued that language learning is regarded as the cornerstone of human existence. the widespread use of english as an international language makes it highly important in the world. it is no more working as the status of language of the elite class or the educated class of the society such as professors, rather it is working as an instrument to bring success in life. nowadays, teachers need...

In order to be autonomous, teachers should enjoy teaching and be satisfied with their teaching. Teacher autonomy, therefore, may be related to teacher burnout and job satisfaction. The present study investigated the relationship between job satisfaction, teacher burnout, and teacher autonomy. Two hundred and seven language teachers at language institutes in Karaj and Tehran were given three que...

This study explored the relationship among EFL teachers’ self-efficacy, language proficiency, and classroom management. A total of 110 Iranian EFL teachers of different levels of high schools and private language schools in Tehran participated in this research. The data were collected through two questionnaires and one test: the Teacher Self-Efficacy Scale and a sample TOEFL were administered i...

language educators are required to reflect upon content delivered to the students. teaching strategies should be adapted to keep students loyal to cultural identity as well as foster resistance to oppressive policies dictated within english language curricula. despite the significance of applying critical principles by teachers, it is not known whether iranian elt instructors and subject teache...

Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) applications for improving the oral skills of low-proficient learners have to cope with nonnative speech that is particularly challenging. Since unconstrained nonnative ASR is still problematic, a possible solution is to elicit constrained responses from the learners. In this paper we describe experiments aimed at selecting utterances from lists of res...

There has been a considerable suggestion in the literature that syntactic adaptation of a text would simplify it. This empirical study determined that the complexity of the syntax does not significantly affect the level of reading comprehension. While a complete conceptual and lexical analysis may be necessary for reading comprehension, a thorough syntactic analysis is not. This should be true ...

Grounded on Hofstede's (1986) dichotomous model of collectivism/individualism, this study explored Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers' cultural identity. A sequential mixed methods procedure was adopted to examine their cultural orientation and the impact of length of experience on their degree of propensity to absorb the target language culture. A total of 120 female and male...