Given the fact that developing an intimate relationship between teacher and students creates a safe learning environment (Harran, 2006), and because teacher immediacy is proved to increase students’ motivation for learning (Velez & Cano, 2008), this study was an attempt to explore the relationship between Iranian EFL learners’ perceived teacher immediacy and their willingness to communicate (WT...

Research has shown that language teachers typically feel underprepared for assessment aspects of their job. One reason may relate to how teacher education programmes prepare future in this area. insights into and what extent educators train matters are scarce, however, as the literacy (LAL) themselves. Additionally, while increasingly research available on components constitute LAL, such interr...

The teacher as researcher analyzed and documented his own professional development during the implementation of a program aimed at improving students’ listening abilities via exposing them to podcasts and familiarizing them with metacognitive strategies. Seventeen senior high school English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners participated in this study, with a second teacher acting as a facili...

Instruction in English as a foreign language (EFL) learning is priority around the globe, but instructional methodologies have not always kept pace with changing needs of learners. The traditional teacher-centered EFL classroom teaching model can no longer meet college learners to strengthen and improve their ability. For years, flipped has been widely recognized an innovative effective method ...

This chapter presents seven unifying themes of tasks used in mathematics teacher education. These themes reflect broad goals for mathematics teacher education, and are closely related to the knowledge required for teaching mathematics. The challenges that teacher-educators face in having to design and implement productive tasks for teachers are discussed and illustrated through a specific task....

Pragmatic assessment and consistency in rating are among the subject matters which are still in need of more profound investigations. The importance of the issue is highlighted when remembering that inconsistency in ratings would surely damage the test fairness issue in assessment and lead to much diversity in ratings. Our principal concern in this study was observing the criteria that American...

Verschueren’s Linguistic Adaptation Theory (1999) provides the theoretical framework for the study on codeswitching in EFL classroom. It views code-switching as an adaptive phenomenon in the interaction between people and their conditions of life. Based on Verschueren’s Linguistic Adaptation Theory, the present paper gave a qualitative analysis of the adaptability that teachers’ code-switching ...

There is no clear definition of what constitutes an ideal teacher educator, particularly from the perspective Malaysian educators. Developing educators’ vision ensures that teachers have high levels professional, personal, and contextual dimensions in teaching practices, including competence practice professional teaching, knowledge, understanding. Therefore, objective this study was to find ou...