This study aims at disclosing the relationship between emotional intelligence and reflective teaching ability of experienced English teachers extent level impacts teaching. There were forty-one with least 3 years experience as participants instructing three different language institutes, four non-associate Professor Applied Linguistics, from Dehkadeh-ye-Olympic, Tehran governmental schools in K...

This study set out to provide empirical evidence on the relationship between EFL teachers' emotional intelligence, reflectivity, and autonomy, and their students' L2 performance. The participants of this study included 88 EFL teachers who taught English at different private English teaching institutes and their students (N = 1266). First, the teachers completed three validated questionnaires: E...

In this paper, we propose real-time communication middleware which supports data dissemination with proxy extension. To fulfill stringent QoS requirement such as timing constraint, we employ push-based data delivery approach and real-time channel. Furthermore, by making the most of connected clients, we could permit the increased number of clients and extend the scalability. Since it is also de...

The paper explores reflective practices of how they shaped my professional life. It discloses experiences as an English language teacher to cultivate a mindset for examining theory-practice gap in classroom teaching, understanding pedagogical practices, using different strategies EFL class, and developing self-efficacy being practitioner. Using ‘Reflective Practice’ method the study, reveals pe...

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...

Professionalism has been generally linked to nations’ economic, industrial, and technological developments. Therefore, having a professionally and ethically competent workforce is a necessity in today's changing world. More specifically, L2 teacher professionalism plays a crucial role in economic development too.  Given its utmost importance in language teaching, this study intended to investig...