various studies on the national policy on education (npe) have concentrated on the cognitive value of pedagogy and learning of the language aspect but few have viewed its importance on the togetherness of the nation - nigeria. this paper deals with how the language policy can influence and ensure the co-existence of nigeria in achieving self-actualisation, national unity, social, cultural, econ...

this study aimed at investigating the impact of utilizing call on efl learners’ foreign accent reduction. to this end, 62 participants out of 100 undergraduate freshman english students at islamic azad university central tehran branch were ed based on a piloted sample pet and a text-to-read. the ed participants were then nonrandomly assigned to an experimental and a control group, each containi...

in 2010, the ministry of education of one of the most diverse provinces in canada initiated the implementation of a support program for newcomer students to facilitate their academic, linguistic, social, and cultural adaptation in french speaking schools. this longitudinal multiple case study will document how immigrant parents support their children’s learning, and create a home environment co...

this study attempts to investigate iranian efl teachers’ perception of the application of ellis’s (2005) principles for successful instructed language learning in their language classes. to this end, a group of efl teachers comprising high school and private language institute teachers took part in the study. the required data were gath- ered through a self-completion questionnaire developed by...

Classroom learning consists of a variety of pedagogic relations including teachers and learners’ interactions, inclusions and exclusions of learners and evaluations. The purpose of this paper was to comprehensively examine the nature of these interactions using Rose (2014) pedagogic exchange model. The researchers qualitatively investigated the interactions of an experienced male EFL teacher wi...

throughout the years, philosophers and psychologists have striven to solve the mind-boggling question of learning by juxtaposing the two competing theories, namely, empiricism and rationalism. they have usually opted for one and ruled out the other on the grounds that it cannot account for learning because theoretical and empirical evidence discredits it. since 1965, with the publication of cho...

The present study was conducted to examine the relationship between the self-supervision and the self-efficacy of Iranian EFL teachers and also the relationship between the self-supervision and the self-efficacy of intermediate adult learners individually. To this end, 40 EFL teachers and 55 intermediate adult learners were selected from two branches of Kish Language Institute. In this study, “...