The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of providing background information on students’ discourse of “Before Their Time” and “The Lottery” texts. The writer assigned these two short stories at intermediate readability level to 40 freshman and Sophomore students, chosen at random and divided into four groups. Each group was exposed to two treatment conditions. The two conditions we...

The Tanzanian education system is in transition from face-to-face classroom learning to elearning. E-learning is a new learning approach in Tanzanian Higher Learning Institutions [HLIs] and with teachers being the key stakeholders of all formal education, investigating their attitude towards e-learning is essential. So far, however, there has been little consideration given to research that exa...

EFL teachers’ professional identity is a multi-dimensional and complicated concept. It is influenced by many other issues in the educational context such as reflective practice. This study intended to explore the relationship between professional identity and reflectivity of Iranian EFL teachers. It also aimed to examine how high and low reflective teachers perceive the professional identity co...

introduction the human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) is a retrovirus that infects cells of the immune system, destroying or impairing their function. as the infection progresses, the immune system becomes weaker, and the person becomes more susceptible to infections. the most advanced stage of hiv infection is acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids). the present study aimed to evaluate the eff...

The present research investigates the efficiency of interactional corrective feedback on Omani EFL learners` writing performance through electronic platforms. To this end, 94 English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners were selected based college placement criteria. participants randomly assigned into one experimental group and control group, each including 47 students. Before starting treatme...

Investigating the “knowing”, a module of the KARDS model proposed by Kumaravadivelu (2012) for teacher education, of Iranian teachers of learner autonomy, this study is an attempt to illuminate some of the yet unexplored areas of teachers’ various types of knowledge of learner autonomy. Furthermore, it attempts to illustrate how Iranian Non-EFL teachers’ knowing affects their practices with reg...

Professional development is critical in providing constant updates on EFL teachers’ teaching practice. This mixed methods study was conducted to explore the effects of participation in action research on EFL teachers’ practice. Eighteen junior school English teachers participated in this study. Teacher participants conducted their action research during a five-month period. The quantitative pha...