in spite of the significant role of teachers in the efficacy of classroom management particularly in teaching english as a foreign language, the issue has not been addressed sufficiently especially in relation with other individual variables. hence, this study made an attempt to investigate the association between iranian efl teachers’ classroom management, reflective thinking and transformatio...

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...

Achieving communicative competency in English classes has been a key goal in contexts where English is taught as a foreign language (EFL). During this process, however, integrating the difficulty and complexity of real life tasks into classroom teaching has often been disregarded. Lack of opportunities for authentic language use often results in learners’ gaining extensive knowledge about the t...

This article describes the anatomy and dynamics of an online professional development activity, the ‘Moodle fishbowl’. The ‘fishbowl’ was designed as an opportunity for experienced EFL educators to witness and make sense of instructional conversation strategies that they might themselves use as they migrate their EFL courses to blended and eventually fully online venues, venues where the roles ...

The present study has been conducted with two main questions: Does using mobile phones by intermediate EFL learners have a significant effect on the learners' vocabulary retention? And is there a significant difference between male and female intermediate EFL learners in vocabulary retention while using mobile phones? This study was a true experimental research and to do the research 111 studen...

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...

the present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between the perceived social self-efficacy of the students of english and their foreign language classroom anxiety. the required data were gathered through the application of the original versions of two standard questionnaires: smith and betz’s (2000) 25-item scale of perceived social self-efficacy (spsse) and horwitz, horwitz and...

This paper reports on the adaptation of a well-established foreign language anxiety scale for use in the Hungarian EFL setting; furthermore, the validation procedures aimed at testing the psychometric properties of the new instrument. Horwitz, Horwitz and Cope’s (1986) Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) was adapted using the method of multiple translators and back translation, and...