Abstract This study aimed to examine what challenges Iranian EFL teachers in the mainstream educational system experienced distance classes during COVID-19 pandemic. Telephone unstructured narrative interview was employed collect data from 20 teacher participants, and two theoretical frameworks, CoI TPACK, were used interpret results. The thematic analysis yielded ten themes: non-customized pla...

earlier self efficacy studies have been blamed for their methodological weakness and their mere reliance on self-report, survey, and correlational techniques for data collection. the purpose of this study; therefore, was to assess the impact of feuerstein’s theory of mediation on efl teachers’ sense of efficacy through direct observation rather than self reports and to use experimental techniqu...

The present study, following Vygotskyan Sociocultural theory in education, and inspired by Rogoff’s conceptualization (1995, 2003) of development, aimed at conceptual development of  in-service EFL teachers. To this end, two Iranian EFL teachers with pseudonyms (Tara and Sara) were selected as participants of the study. The participating teachers were first taught the sociocultural c...

The purpose of this study was to explore the role of two multi-step oral-revision processes as feedback providing tools on Iranian EFL learners’ argumentative writing achievement. The participants taking part in this study were 45 Iranian EFL students who were randomly assigned into three groups. The participants of the groups were given three argumentative writing assignments, each assignment ...

This study is a mixed method research that investigated the effect of electronic collaborative discussion forum on Iranian EFL teachers' engagement and professional identity and their development in terms of teachers‘ competences as they were engaged in collaborative teacher inquiry. For this purpose, 5 EFL teachers participated in 11 online forum discussion sessions. Before participating in di...

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. T...

This study intended to explore English teachers’ job satisfaction in Ilam Province in the west of Iran. To do so, a quantitative approach including teacher job satisfaction survey aimed at gathering personal information (demographics) and teacher job satisfaction questionnaire, the purpose of which was to gather teachers’ attitudes toward their profession, was used. Two-hundred English teachers...