During the past several decades, scholarly consideration has focused on the concept of teacher knowledge and a variety of reform efforts to rethink both the structure and practices of teacher education to enhance teacher preparation process. As a consequence, the tripartite knowledge base of EFL teacher training is built on the partnership between universities and schools to support student tea...

this study was an attempt to investigate iranian efl teachers’ beliefs about effective teaching in foreign language classrooms. more specifically, the study addresses the need for a clear understanding of the role of teaching effectiveness in efl classrooms by looking at iranian efl teachers’ own beliefs. to this end, 90 iranian efl instructors of the english language voluntarily participated i...

The expansion of technological applications such as computers and mobile phones in the past three decades has impacted our life from different perspectives. Language teaching is no exception and like other fields of study, language teaching has also influenced by new language teaching sources and software. More recently, there has been a passionate debate about the usefulness of the smart-phone...

In recent years, considerable concern has arisen over issues of intercultural competence (IC) in relation to English education in the fields of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) or English as a Second Language (ESL), due largely to globalisation. However, relatively little qualitative research has been conducted on EFL teachers’ beliefs and their effects on classroom practices. Through in-dep...

if the target of foreign language teaching is to use the language, communicative language teaching (clt) seems to be an ideal teaching model. the goal of teaching with this method is to use the language as a medium of communication (adi, 2012).the application of the communicative approach in teaching english as a foreign language, however, is associated with some problems that can cause the met...

Storytelling is a practical and powerful teaching tool, especially for language learning. Teachers in language classrooms, however, may hesitate to incorporate storytelling into language instruction because of an already overloaded curriculum. English foreign language (EFL) teachers in Taiwan report additional problems such as having little prior experience with integrating storytelling into la...

The approach of using only English when teaching English as prescribed by the seventh curriculum has become a major issue in the debate over how to improve Korean students' communicative abilities in the L2. Discussions have not always been pleasant about the need to shake up the education system by different means, including using much more classroom English. (Fracas over Education, 2001). Tha...