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Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK), a type of specific knowledge that teachers possess, involves the synthesis of subject-matter knowledge and pedagogical knowledge (Shulman, 1986). PCK is developed through years of experience in the classroom since…

Gifted children have many specific characteristics such as mental and developmental. One of the area in which gifted children having difference from their peers in terms of especially mental skills have demonstrated their difference is to think…

Leaving aside the subsidiary discussions about specific distinctions between ESL and EFL in literature, ESL as a learning situation in which the learner has a chance to be exposed to the language outside the class stands out more advantageous than…

Our attention has been drawn increasingly to the problems our learners have in listening, and in particular to hearing the weak forms, especially the most commonly used sound in the English language, the schwa. We see that many non-native speakers…

This paper studies the English article system from the perspective of dialectics. The aim of the study is to expand the area of understanding the English article system by showing that at the very elementary communicative level is more relevantly…

This study explores the effects of social networks on English progress in a UAE international English National Curriuclum (ENC) boarding school. The observed population consisted of a case study of 11 boarding students, three female and eight male,…

The present study was intended to analyze the impact of utilizing the genre of humour on Iranian EFL learners’ Willingness to Communicate (WTC) in English. To this end, forty participants equally divided into experimental and control groups took part…

This article deals with collocation in general and then concentrates on grammatical collocations based on Benson et alʹs category of grammatical collocations. The emphasis is on a study conducted to find out the Azeri translation of collocation of…

The aim of this study is to examine the role of ambiguity tolerance and emotional intelligence in listening comprehension of second language learners. Sixty freshman students who are majoring in English teaching in Arak University are chosen. Oxford…

The aim of this study is to examine the role of ambiguity tolerance and emotional intelligence in listening comprehension of second language learners. Sixty freshman students who are majoring in English teaching in Arak University are chosen. Oxford…