This paper investigates the traits of a successful EFL teacher at a Chinese University by collecting qualitative data, including surveys with questionnaires and interviews, from Miss H and a group of her students and her colleagues. The purpose is to detect what special qualities she has and what other roles she undertakes in her teaching position. The data indicate that to fulfil her role as b...

the motive behind this study was to evaluate the iranian state university efl entrance examination test (ueeet) based on bachman and palmer’s (1996) ‘usefulness six-faceted model ‘accommodating relia- bility, validity, impact, interactiveness, authenticity, and practicality. to do so, thirty professors and one-hundred efl freshmen were selected randomly from five universities. a questionnaire c...

This study investigated the comparative effects of audio-visually prompted collaborative dialogue on the listening comprehension development of symmetrical, asymmetrical, and asymmetrical teacher-fronted EFL learner groups. Besides, it explored the attitude of the participants of the groups concerning the effectiveness of collaborative dialogue for their listening comprehension improvement. The...

Applied Linguistics has, since its beginning, attempted to employ principles and methods of research used more effectively and successfully by the physical sciences. Collection and analysis of language learning data has thus taken a Newtonian, cause-and-effect perspective, relying on isolation of factors, purity of experimental conditions and rigorous, quantitative interpretation. During the tw...

this study sought the relationship between short-term in-service development programs for efl teachers and their teaching practice in high schools. the objectives were to determine the relationship between: 1) the components of the programs for efl teachers and their practice in class, and 2) efl teachers’ perception of the programs and their practice in class. data were collected through quest...

this research study aimed at investigating whether using peer-provided feedbacks rather than teacher-provided comments would result in any significance difference in iranian english undergraduate students’ ability in writing. in so doing, based on a pretest (an opt & a writing exam), 40 subjects were assigned to two homogeneous groups of equal number the subjects in the control group received m...

introduction. evaluation is a process for merit assessment and quality improvement. during the past three decades one of the most important challenges has been student evaluation of teachers in higher education. more studies during recent decade have shown that evaluation of teachers has correlation with some variables like teacher enthusiasm, teacher rank, student expected grade and so on. the...

The current observational and descriptive study makes an attempt to present the interactional discourse patterns of corrective feedback (CF) and uptake occuring in a communicative adolescent EFL class. Using Lyster and Ranta’s corrective discourse model (1997), this study intends to investigate, describe, and analyze the discourse patterns of corrective feedback utilized by an Iranian teacher a...

Student-directed teaching and assessment techniques are gradually dominating educational systems almost all over the world. This study investigated a cohort of male and female Iranian EFL students’ attitudes toward self-, peer-, and teacher-assessment experiences. Sixty three students at Urmia University and Tabriz Islamic Azad University, in the form of three intact classes, experienced self-,...