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Rafael Zaccaron; Donesca Cristina Puntel Xhafaj – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2024
This mixed-methods study aims to investigate the bias in peer feedback. Thirty-two English as an additional language learners gave each other anonymous feedback on their texts. Half of the participants received feedback from their teacher disguised as peer feedback, while the other half received actual peer feedback. Data were collected through…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Peer Evaluation
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Ganji, Mansoor; Samani, Farzane Safarzade – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2022
This study investigated Iranian English as a foreign language teachers' attachment styles and possible influential factors such as age, teaching experience, gender, and educational degree. The participants were 108 female and 79 male Iranian English teachers, chosen through convenience and snowball sampling. Using Google forms, a researcher-made…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Donoso, Eladio – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2020
This article presents a study which explores perceptions of Chilean future teachers of English as a foreign language regarding the usage of Spanish as L1 in English lessons. The participants belong to first- and fourth-year levels of their programs at four universities located throughout Chile. The data collection tool was Mohebbi and Alavi's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Herencia Grillo, Amalia; Hernández de la Torre, Elena – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2020
This paper investigates an aspect of study abroad programs that has rarely been studied before: the training needs of local education professionals in Spain. Through a mixed-method, using a questionnaire completed by 103 participants, and interviews with 15 of them, we focus on their previous formal specific training and their perspective on the…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Study Abroad, Educational Needs, Teacher Attitudes
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Burri, Michael – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2023
The present study compares the pronunciation practices of three English instructors (two teaching in Australia and one in Japan) with the perceptions of their learners (n = 49). A student questionnaire, semi-structured teacher interviews, and classroom observations were used to collect data. The findings show that the learners strongly desire to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Espitia Cruz, Martha Isabel; Kwinta, Anna – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2013
Recent technological development has created new pedagogical practices in the EFL classroom to maximize the time for students to use the language by considering online tools. Whilst working in a pedagogical context with new technologies, some educators were concerned with how online interaction in EFL content-based classes could be effectively…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Baleghizadeh, Sasan; Zarghami, Zahra – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2012
This article reports on a study that was carried out in order to examine the impact of conferencing assessment on students' learning of English grammar. Forty-two Iranian intermediate university students were randomly assigned to an experimental and a control group. The participants in the experimental group took part in four individual and four…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Experimental Groups