the purpose of this study is to investigate the status of teaching and learning persian language across world universities. to this end, 10 respondents including university professors, lecturers and graduates of persian language from 8 first rank universities in asia, europe and america were interviewed. then from among 41 universities in 22 countries, 326 persian language learners were selecte...

Educators must reassess overall western teaching approaches in English teaching students in different language and cultural backgrounds. Although a westernized communicative teaching approach is ideal to implement language teaching, some Asian students are conservative to adopt or adapt it in their own English language learning. Accordingly, an adapted English teaching approach may be innovated...

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Growing migration and mobility have led to an increased demand for linguistic research over the past few decades, initiating the rapid growth of most subdisci' plines in the field, especially sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and psycholinguistics. There is particularly intense research activity in the interdiscipline of second language acquisition, which occupies a position at the crossroads of li...

Inspired by an increasing level of social awareness amongst economists which has promoted a movement for ‘Real World Economics’, this paper considers what is required for ‘Real World Language Teaching’. It first discusses issues in the specification of syllabus content, focussing in particular on problems with the proposal for a core English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) syllabus, and possible learn...

it is vital in every language classroom that the best pos- sible materials be chosen as they are considered to play the next most important role in learning a foreign language after the teacher. all teachers are responsible to evaluate what they intend to take to the language classroom. these days, language teachers have the preference to equip their classes with technology as a supplement to b...