this study seeks to examine how teachers’ educational background (those who have educated in tefl in comparison to those who have educated in literature) may influence their beliefs and attitudes on language learning, teaching and the teaching methods they apply in their classes. on a general basis, depending on teachers’ opinion, learning process might be seen as behavioristic, inductive, inte...

Emerging trends in tertiary education have seen a shift in focus from teacher-centred to learner-centred education and an increase in the use of Web-based learning environments in teaching programmes. These changes have provided impetus for the development of frameworks of teaching and learning that can be used to inform the design and use of these learning environments. These frameworks are ba...

utilizing the resources of the web in educational practices has made instructional processes more efficient and interesting and has made the learning process on the other hand much easier and attractive. with the web, english language teachers now have the option of engaging learners in online (web-based) instructions in addition to the use of conventional classroom instructions or alternativel...

Web-based learning programs enable learners to browse web pages individually through a predefined path or a personalized routine. However, they provide less social context and cooperative context for cooperation. The main idea presented in this poster is the concept of “informal cooperative learning program”. It is defined as a set of structured learning steps. Learners can go through all steps...

Web-based learning enables more students to have access to the distance-learning environment, and provides students and teachers with unprecedented flexibility and convenience. However, the early experience of using this new learning means in China exposes a few problems. Among others, teachers accustomed to traditional teaching methods often find it difficult to put their courses online, and s...