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Yazdi, Mona Tabatabaee; Motallebzadeh, Khalil; Ashraf, Hamid; Baghaei, Purya – Cogent Education, 2017
Continuing Professional Development (CPD), in the area of teacher education, refers to the procedures, programs or strategies that help teachers encounter the challenges of their work and accomplish their own and their learning center's goals. To this aim, the purpose of this study is to propose and validate an appropriate model of EFL teachers'…
Descriptors: Professional Continuing Education, Teacher Education, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Ahmadian, Mohammad Javad – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2012
The study reported in this article aimed to investigate the way working memory capacity (WMC) interacts with careful online planning--a task-based implementation variable--to affect second language (L2) speech production. This issue is important to teachers, because it delves into one of the possible task-based implementation variables and thus…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Second Languages, Oral Language, Speech
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Ahmadian, Mohammad Javad – Language Teaching Research, 2012
The purpose of the study reported in this article was twofold: First, to see whether guided careful online planning assists intermediate learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) in accurate oral production of English articles ("an/a" and "the"); and, second, to see whether guided careful online planning has any effects…
Descriptors: Oral Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Form Classes (Languages)
Smith, Ann F. V., Ed.; Strong, Gregory, Ed. – Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL), 2009
"Adult Language Learners: Context and Innovation" presents instructional practices that are particularly successful with adults. Adult language learners are goal oriented and direct their learning to fulfill particular needs or demands: to advance their studies, to progress up the career ladder, to follow business opportunities, to pass…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Personal Autonomy, Foreign Countries