The present study aimed to investigate the interaction among grade dropping and reflective thinking abilities of the participants and to also check if action research enhances learners’ reflective thinking. A cyclic action research was run for 8 sessions. Kember et al.’s (2010) reflective thinking questionnaire and three in-term quizzes were administered. Students also made questions based on t...

The present study is aimed at investigating the relationship among Iranian EFL teachers’ reflective teaching, reflective thinking and classroom management ability. To this purpose, 102 male and female EFL teachers, aged between 25 and 40, with different academic background who were teaching at different levels, were chosen to fill in three questionnaires on reflective thinking, reflective teach...

Research calls for practice-based inquiry where language teachers conduct exploratory action research to transform their pedagogical practices impact student achievement. This study builds on the in practitioner inquiry, teacher collaboration, and identity investigate how a seventh-grade English Language Arts (ELA) (Heather) constructed her as she collaborated with an ESL (Amanda) plan teach st...

Reflective Teaching and Its Impact on Students' Achievement in English F. Ghorbaan Dordinejaad, Ph.D. M. Rashvand Reflective teaching as a style in teaching has shown to be effective across different academic areas, in which teaching English is no exception. To demonstrate its effectiveness, a sample of 70 English teachers in Ghazvin was asked to answer two sets of questions o...

Background. Physical education learning in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic has a remarkable impact on students’ creativity. Objectives. This study aims to determine the effect of applying the inquiry and discovery models in online physical education learning to develop high school students’ creativity. Methods. The multiple treatment and control with the pre and post-test procedure were used...

We seem to be able acquire evaluative knowledge by mere reflection, or “from the armchair.” But how? This question is especially pressing for proponents of sentimental perceptualism, which view that our rooted in affective experiences much way everyday empirical perception. While such seems partially explained causal relations between perceptions and properties world, armchair inquiry, relevant...

Initiation into contextualizing mindful second language teacher education (SLTE) has challenged teacher educators causing their retreat into mindless submission to ready-made standardized directives. To revive the starting perspective in curriculum development in light of the recent trend towards responsive SLTE, this practitioner research investigated how the context was incorporat...