The skills and knowledge which university and college students will need for the 21st century are unknowable. What is known is that flexibility, conceptual thinking, empathy, critical thinking and sophisticated communication ...

Questioning the Author (QtA) is an approach used to teach reading comprehension. Americans Beck and McKeown tried it out in the 1990s and found it to be effective in getting children to discuss what the author had to say ...

This study aimed at investigating the communication strategies used by EFL teachers and their students in an EFL setting (i.e. Jordan). The participants of the study included tenth grade English language teachers and their ...

This article reports on a study that explored teachers’ perceptions of teaching English as an international language (TEIL) vis-à-vis their reported classroom practices. It is a small scale exploratory study which is based ...

Class participation and assignments are considered important parts since they contribute to students’ deep learning. Although positive correlations were found in a number of studies (Sly, 1999; Sly & Rennie, 1999) between ...

The use of vocabulary frequency lists in English language teaching and learning has been an area of continued research for roughly the past 170 years. There has been an increased focus on these lists in the last 25 years ...

This study sought to explore Bahraini teachers‟ beliefs about teaching and learning as they related to their daily work and their interactions with the contexts in which they worked and lived so as to construct a deeper ...

Professional development is seen as a fundamental aspect in teachers‟ careers if they want to “remain up to date in their knowledge of the curriculum, wise in their selection and use of a repertoire of pedagogical skills, ...

Teaching English for specific purposes is sometimes quite a daunting challenge for most of the teachers in any part of the world despite their personal motivation, expertise and availability of the best of the resources. ...

This research paper focuses on critical implications of the concept of ‘non-nativeness’ on NNESTs (Non-native English Speaking Teachers) in terms of hiring and employability, their identity as teachers, and perceptions ...