This study was conducted in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) context to explore Iranian teachers' perceptions of their pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and their sense of professional identity (PI) as well as to scrutinize how their cognitions were practiced in EAP classes. To this end, two ELT teachers and two content instructors (i.e. subject experts who teach EAP courses in addition to...

This study explored the use of virtual world role-play activities to increase pre-service teachers’ sense of teaching efficacy and attitudes toward inclusion. These constructs are also important for teacher identity development since they influence teacher dispositions, effort, professional development and beliefs in intrinsic obligations. The activity was embedded in an undergraduate course fo...

This work provides examples of Weinreich's Identity Structure Analysis (ISA), Nomothetic Analyses 3 groups teachers. The were formed in response to ratings the teachers as good, average or weaker by their Principals. analyses indicate that ISA nomothetics may hold potential for differentiating among and Summaries close work. They present possible paths provision group-specific Professional Deve...