This study explores the relationship and interconnections between EFL teachers’ beliefs and their motivational practices in the classroom. The present study combined qualitative and quantitative methods of research. First, the motivational practices of 30 teachers in two private language schools in Tehran were explored with a classroom observation instrument, the Motivation Orientation of Langu...

The purpose of this study was to see the role of English language proficiency level and sex on Iranian students’ beliefs about language learning. This study also investigated the usefulness of the BALLI questionnaire (Horwits, 1988), which checks learners’ beliefs, for the context of Iranian English language learners through conducting an interview. A total of 171 Iranian learners from safir in...

Foreign Language learning is relatively not a new concept within Pakistan. As, young students in order to avail opportunities abroad learn foreign languages for better exposure and cultural assimilation the context. Previously, French German were two that used acquire. However, with introduction of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, realities have been explored. As result, this ex...

A phylogenetic analysis of Xyphon was completed using 45 adult morphological characters and 1,076 base pairs of the mtDNA gene NADH dehydrogenase 1. Multiple specimens, representative of the range of morphological variation found in each previously described species, were scored for the morphological data matrix to test the monophyly of each species. These tests supported the following synonymi...

Microteaching lesson study, that is a variation of study applied by student teachers in microteaching course, provides the environment for EFL to collaborate, engage, and reflect on their ideas, beliefs, teaching experiences. Such condition fertile ground enables teachers' beliefs language learning change. Recent studies show some education programs have changed teachers. However, no discussed ...

This research is a mixed-methods study that examined Chinese learners' beliefs and strategies used in language learning the context of their achieved proficiency. To investigate relationship existing between these variables, two survey questionnaires, proficiency test (Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi: HSK 4), an interview item were constructed. In total, one hundred twenty international students convenie...

This paper is an attempt to deal with language learners’ beliefs. Researchers used Elaine Kolker Horwitz’s model (1988), Beliefs about Language Learning Inventory, and they applied it explore the views of Kurdish EFL university students concerning learning. The study aims investigate expose their opinions regarding learning generally, then English more precisely. Its significance lies in explor...

In the past two decades the topic of beliefs about language learning has been attracting considerable research interest. The first to conduct a systematic research into the nature of language learning beliefs was Elaine Horwitz of the University of Texas at Austin, who developed the Beliefs About Language Learning Inventory (BALLI). This instrument has since been used to assess learners’ belief...