Given that willingness to communicate -WTC- as an important individual difference -ID- variable playsa pivotal role in the second language acquisition -SLA- domain and the fact that an array of factorsmay affect it in ...

This study aimed at gaining insights into the Iranian graduate students’ attitude toward English language and the current education policies in addition to the purposes for which they learn the foreign language. Based on a mixed methods design...

Abstract: Creativity, as an important psychological trait, has not been sufficiently touched by professionals in language teaching to date. Thus the present paper aims at examining the relationship between creativity and ...

with English language achievement. To this end the 40-item Social Capital Scale

(SCS) developed by Khodadady and Alaee (2012) and validated with grade three senior high school students in Mashhad was modified and administered to 493 female English...

The major objective of this study was to construct and validate an English Language Teacher Prejudice Scale (ELTPS). To this end, 180 English language teachers in private language institutes in Mashhad, Iran were asked to participate in this study...

The major purpose of the present study was to examine English Language Teaching (ELT) in the light of

democracy in Iran. To this end, first we have presented the major tenets of democracy, such as Equality and Freedom, then we have discussed...

This study aimed to design and validate a Persian cultural capital scale (CCS) with Iranian

university students majoring in English language, literature and translation as well teaching English as a

foreign language. To this end...

, to reveal the relative status of English language teachers as compared to other school teachers in students’ perceptions. Regarding the first goal, an 18-item teacher status scale was designed and, using the data collected from 200 students, its construct...

The present study pursued two goals: First, to discover the subscales underlying the teacher Status Scale (TSS); and second, to reveal the status of the teachers of Persian, Arabic, and English in Iranian junior high school ...

for researchers to channel their studies into this new aspect of ELT. Moreover, this paper considers English language learning classes to be sites of dealing with issues related to life qualities. In the end, a new map of doing research in the field has been drawn...