Abstract Literature review indicates that an effective and good teacher has an important role in students' performances and their success. Pivotal roles of teachers may affect students’ attitudes and motivations to language learning. Improving the field of foreign language teaching and learning without improving the qualities of EFL teachers seems impossible. This attempt, at first hand, requir...

Is the classic difficulty for Japanese listeners to perceive /r/-/l/ entirely attributable to the lack of a liquid contrast in the Japanese phonological system, or is it also due to phonetic factors? On the “phonology-only” view, the level of difficulty that Japanese listeners experience in perceiving /r/-/l/ should not depend on the language in which /r/-/l/ is produced. For instance, Japanese...

This paper presents our recent work on the development of a grammar-constrained, Mandarin-English bilingual Speech Recognition System (MESRS) for real-world music retrieval. Two of the main difficult issues in handling the bilingual speech recognition for realworld applications are tackled: One is to balance the performance and the complexity of the bilingual speech recognition system; the othe...

This study investigated metadiscourse and its subcategories in English research articles (RAs) written by nonnative (Iranian) and native English writers from the two disciplines of applied linguistics and civil engineering. The study aimed at seeing whether language and discipline influenced the frequency of occurrence of metadiscourse elements in research articles. To this end, a sample of 120...

Large-scale environmental epidemiologic studies often rely on exposure estimates based on linkage to residential addresses. This approach, however, is limited by the lack of residential histories typically available for study participants. Our objective was to evaluate the feasibility of using address data from LexisNexis (a division of RELX, Inc., Dayton, Ohio), a commercially available credit...

Research indicates that teachers need preparation in classroom based technology use, but teacher education programs do not prepare them. Nevertheless some teachers are effective with technology in language classrooms. In this paper, the author examines successes and challenges and documents how teachers succeed in developing their own expertise for technology use in language classrooms. Data co...

Abstract Literature review indicates that an effective and good teacher has an important role in students' performances and their success. Pivotal roles of teachers may affect students’ attitudes and motivations to language learning. Improving the field of foreign language teaching and learning without improving the qualities of EFL teachers seems impossible. This attempt, at first hand, requir...

performance evaluation is one of the important components of each organization, and educational organizations are not the exceptions. teachers are believed by many researchers as the single most important factor influencing student academic success or failure. therefore, they need to be at the center of attempts to improve or reform the educational system of any country. considering the pivotal...

The role of teachers in affecting students’ attitudes and motivations to language learning and teaching cannot be denied. To improve the field of foreign language teaching and learning we need to improve the qualities of EFL teachers. To achieve this goal, recognizing and identifying the qualities of effective EFL teachers is essential. So this study attempted to investigate the view points of ...