Nowadays, the ideas of integrating concepts environment and saving it are being famous. These widely seen in many fields study, language education is one them. Thus, identity English Language teachers (ELT) a step toward transferring this concept EFL materials ELT departments. The teacher's takes different meanings. Sometimes, only means teacher who teaches language, other times, means, cultura...

This article explores the construction and development of two non-native English speaking student teachers’ beliefs throughout a one-year teaching English to speakers of other languages programme in a university in the United Kingdom. The research used a qualitative case methodology to illuminate individuals’ understanding and perceptions. The study employed three data collection instruments: s...

Identity orientations refer to the relative importance that individuals place on various identity attributes or characteristics such as race, religion, culture and language when constructing their self-definitions (Chew, 2007; Cheek, 1989). Accordingly, the present study aims at identifying the impact of identity aspects on the Iranian learners' English language achievements at Shiraz Universit...

Drawing on the literature on the emergence of different varieties of English in the globalized world, current debates surrounding English as an international language (EIL), and more orientation towards intelligibility and mutual understanding in international communication, this article reports the findings of a quantitative and qualitative research study with 112 native American and British, ...

Currently, we are facing big challenges of preparing and supporting K-12 CS teachers. In addition to increasing the number of CS teachers, there is a great need of supporting those teachers to grow and retain as committed, quality teachers. As suggested by teacher identity theory, teachers’ sense of commitment and (other aspects of) teaching profession is tightly linked with their sense of iden...

background and purpose: the fact that who is more qualified to teach the emp (english for medical purposes) courses has long been the cause of argument between the heads of language departments (lds) on one side and those of discipline-specific departments(dsds) on the other side. this research was conducted to study the views of both sides as well as those of students in some emp english class...

In view of native/nonnative language teacher dichotomy, different characteristics have been assigned to these 2 groups. The dichotomy has been the source of different actions and measures to clarify the positive and negative points of being (non)native teachers. In recent years, many researchers have revisited this dichotomy. The challenge to the dichotomy can be a source of motivation to explo...

Although speech-language pathologists in the schools are being encouraged to provide services more inclusively, they often express concern that they are becoming like classroom teachers and are "watering down" the therapy they should be providing to students on their caseloads. This article explores these concerns and offers solutions to the role confusion and dissatisfaction of many speech-lan...