This investigation set out to look into the issue of teachers’ exercise of agency in the Iranian EFL context. More specifically, as part of a larger study, it reports on the ways two Iranian Ministry of Education teachers make sense of and operate in the country’s educational setting under the demands of a centralist system of education. Priestley, Biesta, & Robinson’s (2013) framework of teach...

The last five years in Australia have seen the intensification of activity around teacher standards. There have been a number of initiatives at the national level, including the development of standards for accomplished teachers of Mathematics, Science and English. A number of state education systems have also undertaken work in this area—for example in Western Australia (EDWA 2001) and Queensl...

The unprecedented growth of English and arrival of English as an International Language (EIL) has generated a new fledged argument about English language teachers’ role and status around the world. To date, much of the debate on the native/non-native distinction in EIL settings and factors contributing to sharpen distinctions has remained unsettled. This gap motivated this study on the English ...

The present study focuses on the experience of flow among 168 Arab and Kurdish English Foreign Language (EFL) learners in both in-person emergency remote teaching (ERT) classes. Statistical analyses questionnaire data revealed that did their ERT classes but for a significantly shorter time than pre-pandemic Those who experienced were also more likely to it In classes, proportion was linked age,...

Teaching evaluation plays a key role for universities to improve its teaching quality and becomes a hotspot research field for related researchers. The paper takes university English teaching for example and presents a new model for evaluating English course teaching based on improved BP neural network. Firstly an evaluation indicator system of university English teaching is designed through an...

abstract beliefs are an important aspect of any learning program as they affect the way teachers and students define their roles, and the way they approach their duties and responsibilities. besides, they highly affect teachers’ practices, methods, and lesson plans. the importance of beliefs inspired the present researchers to evaluate and compare efl teachers’ beliefs before and after a teache...

For many English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers working contingently with language learners’ problematic learner contributions in classroom interaction still remains a challenge. Drawing on conversation analysis methodology and using sociocultural and situated learning theories, this longitudinal case study traces the progressional changes in one Iranian English language teacher’s repairi...