Enjoying much potential for learning and teaching, Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is regarded as a supplementary tool in L2 teaching and an approach to support learners to achieve excellence in their performance. Relying ...

this study focussed on a corpus of 100 infomral English test messges abtained from 2 nonnative male and female professional English speakers during 2 months. the main aim of this study was to analyze the language of this ...

The present study, in the first place, aimed to shed light on the conceptual assessment beliefs of a group of Iranian EFL teachers grounded on Brown’s (2008) classification (i.e. Improvement, School accountability, Student ...

Assessment practices in higher education focus on evaluating student learning. Institutions are now expected to provide improvement-oriented assessments that assist students in improving their work. Student learning outcomes ...

Knowing parents’ underlying beliefs concerning pedagogical issues may be an indispensable key to understanding diverse activities which parents are engaged in with their children. Meanwhile, assessment as a multifunctional ...

Having a comprehensive knowledge of the source and target language on the part of translators has long been esteemed as a fundamental prerequisite within translation studies. Yet, this field seems to overlook the strategic ...

Inspired by the tenets of the Developmental, Individual-Difference, Relationship-Based (DIR) model of first language acquisition and those of Emotion-Based Language Instruction (EBLI) in bilingual education, the current ...

Given the significance of relativism in molding our worldview and uncovering the nature of truth, this study using the newly-developed concept of emotioncy, attempted to introduce sensory relativism as a new perspective ...

Given the prominence of cognitive and affective factors in teacher effectiveness, this study intends to look at the issue from a different perspective and examine the roles of contextualization and emotionalization in ...

Given the significant role of culture in communication, language researchers, among many other educationalists, have endeavored to develop strategies and techniques for teaching culture in foreign/second language. The ...