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Gholami, Reza – Oxford Review of Education, 2017
This article has two aims. First, it is concerned with a discourse in British media and politics of "Muslim education", a concept that often appears alongside words such as "extremism" and "radicalisation" and contributes to the undue "religification" of people of Muslim backgrounds. I offer a preliminary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Muslims, Social Bias, Ethnography
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Aghagolzadeh, Ferdows; Davari, Hossein – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2014
Reviewing and discussing the development of critical studies in the field of applied linguistics in general and English language teaching (ELT) in particular in Iran, this paper attempts to highlight the main contributions in this field. Introducing a new growing critical-oriented shift in Iranian ELT community as the one which has been mostly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Critical Theory
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Zare, Mohsen Nazarzadeh; Dorrani, Kamal; Lavasani, Masoud Gholamali – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2012
Background and purpose: This study examines the views of farmers and extension agents participating in extension education courses in Dezful, Iran, with regard to problems with these courses. It relies upon a descriptive methodology, using a survey as its instrument. Sample: The statistical population consisted of 5060 farmers and 50 extension…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Logical Thinking, Agricultural Education, Extension Education
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Maleki, Ataollah – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2007
The possibility of teaching communication strategies and the feasibility of incorporating them into school syllabi have been a controversial issue. In the current study, 60 Iranian students were divided into two thirty-member classes; then two different textbooks, one with specific CS and the other without them, were chosen to be taught in the…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Textbooks, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
Shahheidaripour, Gholamabbass – Online Submission, 2000
Background: Persian English learners committed mistakes and errors which were due to insufficient knowledge of different senses of the words and collocational structures they formed. Purpose: The study reported here was conducted for a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for The Master of Arts degree, School of Graduate…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Comprehension, Interlanguage
Hashemi, Mohammad Reza – 1992
In Iran, English second language (ESL) instruction is increasing rapidly. Generally, the instruction is structural and the focus is on grammatical features. Structural and grammar-translation methods of teaching are most common, and change is resisted. Against this background, however, some college instructors of the new generation have begun to…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Needs, Educational Strategies, English (Second Language)