today, teaching language through the use of technology has become considerably widespread in many countries. the present research aims to investigate the extent to which computer software and new technologies are employed in teaching persian language. in addition, it studies the reasons for success or failure of these tools. the study, which was conducted in a comparative framework, used a rese...

this paper reports on an exploratory study that explores the instructional patterns within english as a foreign language (efl) secondary school classrooms in syria. recently, the syrian ministry of education (moe) has introduced a new national curriculum which recommends a shift in efl teachers’ instructional practices. despite this costly innovation, there has been no attempt to check whether ...

Over the past two decades researchers have increasingly become aware of the fact that language teaching can benefit from the field of discourse analysis and pragmatics. This paper analyzes the applicability of the so called problem-solution pattern to the teaching of writing. An experiment was conducted in order to test M. Hoey’s (2001) belief that the pattern can serve as a ready-made template...

the development of materials for language teaching has been retraced from different perspectives. for example, some have identified influences of a social view on designing course books and compiling materials for language classes. the purpose of this article is to focus on the specific case of elt material, its design and priorities in the context of iran. this article also offers a detailed a...

the present article arises from a three-year cross sectional investigation into english language teaching (elt) in secondary schools in iran and the role of communicative pedagogy within this. the study has examined the extent of communicative pedagogy within the iranian national elt curriculum, the elt programme and to some extent the english language coursebooks used in secondary schools. wha...

language teacher assessment, like many aspects of second language teacher education, is changing. to understand factors that are driving the change, such as work of teaching generally, language teaching in particular, and the role of teachers’ knowledge in teaching, this study examined language teacher assessment schemes across the globe. the aim was to arrive at a set of shared beliefs, attitu...

This study evaluates a model for considering domain-general and domain-specific associations between teacher-child interactions and children's development, using a bifactor analytic strategy. Among a sample of 325 early childhood classrooms there was evidence for both general elements of teacher-child interaction (responsive teaching) and domain-specific elements related to positive management ...

the global spread of english, co-occurring with globalization, has generated new views towards some issues in english language teaching, one of which being the place of home culture versus foreign language culture in english language classes. the following study aimed to compare the viewpoint of three groups, i.e. language teachers, language learners and parents regarding the role of home cultu...