The aims of the study reported in this article are to investigate factors affecting English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers’ use of computers in their classrooms and to find out EFL teachers’ perceptions of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and ways to improve CALL practice in school settings. Participants in the study were twelve Korean in-service teachers of EFL working at secon...

This study investigated the relationship between selfefficacy and stress among 108 EFL teachers in Iran. The participants were administered self-efficacy and stress questionnaires. Pearson Product-Moment Correlation and Multiple Regression analyses were used. The results indicated significant negative correlation between self efficacy and stress. Also it was found that both dimensions of self-e...

This paper argues that co-teaching between native English teachers (NETs) and nonnative English teachers (NNETs) can contribute to the improvement of teaching quality of NETs, many of whom cannot achieve a desirable quality of teaching of English in Chinese primary schools largely due to lack of training in professional teaching. In this paper, four co-teaching models are examined—“One Teaching...

the present study aimed to explore (a) if there is any relationship between efl teachers’ self-regulatory and their resiliency, (b) if there is any relationship between efl teachers’ self-regulatory and their genders, and (c) if there is any relationship between efl teachers’ self-regulatory and years of teaching experience. through a convenience method of sampling, the first group of participa...

As far as the communicative nature of writing is concerned, cohesion is regarded as an essential textual component both in creating organized texts and rendering the content comprehensible to the reader. Many researchers have explored the connection between the use of cohesive devices (CDs) and the quality of the writing. To gain more insight into this area, this study reviewed some studies foc...

In view of native/nonnative language teacher dichotomy, different characteristics have been assigned to these 2 groups. The dichotomy has been the source of different actions and measures to clarify the positive and negative points of being (non)native teachers. In recent years, many researchers have revisited this dichotomy. The challenge to the dichotomy can be a source of motivation to explo...

this study investigated the characteristics of effective secondary school iranian efl teachers from students’ and teachers’ perspectives. to this end, 376 junior secondary school students and 32 efl teachers teaching at various iranian secondary schools participated in the study. a validated open-ended questionnaire was distributed among the student and teacher participants and asked for their ...