This qualitative study explored the nature of informal learning in professional instructional designers’ everyday work activities. Based on intensive interviews with six full-time practitioners, and using a hermeneutic form of data analysis, this study produced seven themes concerning the practices, tensions, and ironies associated with this largely unexplored aspect of instructional design. Sp...

This study investigated the acquisition of grammatical aspect by Iranian EFL learners. The main question addressed in this study was whether Iranian EFL learners could distinguish conditions under which they must use either the perfective aspect  or imperfective aspect. A group of 110 adult, Persian-Speaking learners of English both at BA and MA levels Took a Michigan test based on which they w...

The article examines the essence and structure of coaching approach, which contains conceptual (related to interpretation «coaching» phenomenon, its types principles) technological (implies introduction techniques in process forming reflective competence future teacher) components. reflexive teacher, is meta-competence an individual, motivational-value (a set motives, attitudes, value attitudes...

This paper reports on a PhD research which investigates the concept of teacher autonomy in the context of Turkish lower secondary schools. The study uses the English language teaching profession as a focus. There are two primary aims of this study: to explore the extent to which teachers of English exercise autonomy in relation to teaching and assessment, professional development, school manage...

The professional activity of a social worker is multifaceted, in which the aesthetic aspect has special place. key reason that it aims to reveal personality with needs, beauty human existence, its inexhaustible possibilities cognition and self-knowledge, development, self-improvement. It especially important for help such person perceive this world adequately, sometimes even overcome tragedy th...

Introduction: Professional socialization is a critical aspect of nursing students' development, which begins with entry into the nursing program and continues when their professional practice begins. The aim of this study was to explore the socialization of Iranian BSN students in the nursing profession. Methods: An exploratory qualitative approach utilizing Straussian version of the grounded t...