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Salehi, Hadi; Taghavi, Elham; Yunus, Melor Md – English Language Teaching, 2015
Many studies have been done in the developed countries due to the importance of job satisfaction; however, only a limited number of studies have been conducted on teachers' job satisfaction in Iran. This study is an attempt to investigate the relationship between teachers' job satisfaction and their attitudes towards students' beliefs and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction, Teacher Attitudes, English Teachers
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Nahari, Amnah Ahmad; Alfadda, Hind Abdulaziz – English Language Teaching, 2016
Spelling is an essential literacy skill and an important language component that can have a significant effect on L2 students' future education and occupational status. However, many students struggle to master this skill, and most L2 teachers are limited to traditional approaches when teaching spelling. Therefore, this study aims to investigate…
Descriptors: Spelling, Second Language Learning, Grade 6, Elementary School Students
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Kim, Jung In – English Language Teaching, 2015
The main purpose of this study is to develop and validate a valid measure of the early childhood (EC) English teacher knowledge. Through extensive literature review on second/foreign language (L2/FL) teacher knowledge, early childhood teacher knowledge and early childhood language teacher knowledge, and semi-structured interviews from current…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Ahmad, Ismail Sheikh; Al-Shboul, Murad M.; Nordin, Mohamad Sahari; Rahman, Zainurin Abdul; Burhan, Mohd; Madarsha, Kamal Basha – English Language Teaching, 2013
The last decade has witnessed an increasing research trend on foreign language reading anxiety as a skill related to but distinct from foreign language anxiety. However, sources of foreign language reading anxiety have rarely been investigated. Thus, the current study responds to the study by (Saito, Horwitz, & Garza, 1999) and extends the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Reading Comprehension, Sampling
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Park, Gi-Pyo – English Language Teaching, 2011
This study examined the validity of the SILL by performing a confirmatory factor analysis among 914 university students learning English in Korea. The results showed that all the fit indices including chi-square, RMSEA, CFI, and NFI used to test Oxford's two construct and six construct taxonomy of the SILL provided unacceptable fit to the data.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Measures (Individuals), Learning Strategies
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Venkatraman, G.; Prema, P. – English Language Teaching, 2013
The paper presents the research design used for identifying and validating a set of competencies required of ESP (English for Specific Purposes) teachers. The identification of the competencies and the three-stage validation process are also discussed. The observation of classes of ESP teachers for field-testing the validated competencies and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Teacher Competencies, English for Special Purposes