This case study evaluates the characteristics of classroom speech found in classes taught by non-native elementary school English language instructors in Japan using corpora compiled by the authors. A corpus of spoken language was compiled from the lessons using XML tagging that marked speaker turns, language use, and classroom interaction modes. We then performed quantitative analyses on both ...

This paper reports on the experiences of four Australian teachers who provide English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instruction to Indonesian secondary school students in a regional area of Central Java, Indonesia. These four teachers were all native English speakers and experienced qualified teachers, however, the Australian State Department of Education that sent them to Indonesia did not provi...

this study aims at discovering whether university entrance exam (uee), a high-stake selection test in iran, influences the high school and pre-university efl teachers` methodology and test development. the participants of this study included thirty high school and pre-university efl teachers who were randomly selected from ten different schools. to answer the research questions, five types of m...

In order to explore high school students’ English learning anxiety in Chinese EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classrooms, this study surveyed and analyzed 105 students from a high school in Dezhou City, Shandong Province, China. The results indicated that students indeed had comparatively high anxiety in English learning. Males have higher anxiety of English classes than females. And it was...

BACKGROUND Internationally and historically considerable research has been undertaken regarding the attitudes of secondary school teachers towards different types of ability grouping. There has been no recent research taking account of the changing educational context in the UK. AIMS This paper aims to explore secondary school teachers' attitudes and beliefs about ability grouping taking acco...

the role of teachers in the educational context could go beyond simply teaching the subject matter. it is not uncommon for some students to be greatly influenced by certain teachers and even consider them as their role models. an interesting and novel way of inferring the impact a teacher has on the students is through revealing the status of the teacher as perceived by the students. the presen...

The relationship between Islamic values and foreign languages in the school environment offers a relatively good example of the challenging aspects of Islamic identity formation amongst the students. Via focused group interviews, this study aimed to explore the teachers’ perceptions with regard to the influence of English language learning and the environment in the process of Islamic self-iden...

The fastest-growing student population in U.S. schools today is children of immigrants, half of whom do not speak English fluently and are thus labeled English learners. Although the federal government requires school districts to provide services to English learners, it offers states no policies to follow in identifying, assessing, placing, or instructing them. Margarita Calderón, Robert Slavi...

The present study pursued two goals: First, to discover the subscales underlying the teacher Status Scale (TSS); and second, to reveal the status of the teachers of Persian, Arabic, and English in Iranian junior high school students’ perceptions in order to determine the relative roles of national, religious, and western influences in the identity construction of the students. The data was coll...