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...

common media have a critical role in forming the recent islamic community, to some extend that it is possible to consider it as a useful means in publishing islamic values and awareness. therefore, the importance of applying these useful means for social awareness is apparent for everyone. considering globalizing and its destructive effects on arabic language, arabic world donate much importanc...

Abstract Critical Language Awareness (CLA) seeks to promote social justice by explicitly calling attention power issues in the context of literacy development and language instruction. In this article, we assert that a CLA approach English teaching (ELT) which does not recognize account for urgency climate change its myriad effects on present future generations learners is flawed. It time ELT e...

The article analyzes the essence and content of terms «intercultural communicative competence», «cultural awareness», «critical cultural ways efficient developing critical awareness when learning foreign language by means information communication technology.

In this paper, we make initial advances towards building an argument for the inclusion of Critical Literacy Awareness within new Early Career Framework in England. Using illustrative examples from recent research projects, argue that post-2010 education policy has discursively divided practitioners, structuring relationships between different groups teachers schools as hierarchical and competit...

the idea is growing among educators that thinking skill needs to be given a direct attention. on one hand, critical thinking is supposed to broaden students’ thinking in all regards (schafersman, 1991); and on the other hand learners’ attitudes towards the second language can affect both their performance in the class and their final accomplishment. to this end, the present study started with t...

this study aimedat investigating the difference between male and female iranian upper-intermediate efl learners in terms of critical thinking, meta-cognitive awareness listening strategies, and selection of meta- cognitive listening strategies. to this end, one hundred and fifty language learners (including males and females with average age of 26.5) were selected through homogenised process to...