this study, in the first place, attempted to examine the relationship between english as foreign language (efl) teachers' affective constructs and their sense of responsibility. in the second place, the roles of teachers' gender, years of teaching experience, school setting, and the number of students in the classroom on teachers' affective constructs and sense of responsibility ...

abstract the present study investigates the relationship between multiple intelligences and teaching styles of eng-lish as foreign language (efl) learners and teachers. the participants of the study included 106 efl teachers and 400 efl learners. teachers were invited to complete a multiple intelligences inventory for efl teachers, developed by christison (1998) and a thinking styles inventory ...

Grammar is now rehabilitated in language teaching and learning after years of debate and research on how best to teach grammar has produced a variety of options for the teachers to follow in their classrooms. The present study reports 30 Bangladeshi university EFL teachers’ attitudes towards grammar and its teaching and learning relating to those options. An analysis of their responses indicate...

Individual learners’ affective factors are very important for foreign language learning. In China foreign language learning mainly happens in classroom. Foreign language teachers are the organizers and carriers of language classes, and thus they inevitably influence the students’ affection. This study explores how EFL teachers influence students’ affect, what the teachers should do to develop a...

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 ...

Reading exercises are critical for developing strong reading comprehension. However, due to resource constraints and a lack of accurate evaluation methods, English instructors can hardly assess student reading ability effectively. In past decades, learning by reading is known to be challenging for both teachers and students involved, especially for students learning English as a Foreign Languag...

This study seeks to explore five 6 th grade EFL learners' major writing problems by analyzing the nature and distribution of their writing errors and it also investigates factors that cause errors in their writing in English through email communication. This study examined EFL learners’ writing samples and followed taxonomy: grammatical, lexical, semantic, mechanics, and word order types of err...

This article begins by accounting the development of Second language theories .It describes major ESL theories ever since the 18th century to those currently adopted in ESL field. Then it proceeds to demonstrate their influences on EFL teaching in China, like nowadays an increasing awareness of non-cognitive factors in teaching foreign languages, reforms in some traditional teaching methodologi...