Flexible Teachers vs. Rigid Learners: “Opportunities Lost & Found in Iranian EFL Context”
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| Title | Flexible Teachers vs. Rigid Learners: “Opportunities Lost & Found in Iranian EFL Context” |
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| Abstract | Abstract – In order to measure or predict an entity, it should necessarily be considered as a static phenomenon, so has been the case with the realm of language teaching and learning so far. But language teaching/learning is dynamic in nature because it is rooted in the dynamic nature of human mind. Introducing a framework for teachers in classrooms is also a dynamic entity, and the notion of flexibility for the teachers covers many explicit and implicit dimensions, many of which have not been touched upon yet. Flexibility for teachers is a unique genre through which teachers are equipped to come up with the opportunities lost due to the rigid learners who are not, consciously or unconsciously, in the mainstream of the common standards of learning a foreign language; and flexible teachers are able to develop unique opportunities for a single group of students, for sure, the results are not generalized completely to any other classroom settings. Here in the present article, the concentration is on the five-most significant aspects of characteristics of a flexible teacher, especially in the Iranian EFL context which is completely a culture-bound setting. |
| Publisher | World Science Publisher |
| Date | 2013-04-10 |
| Source | XXXX-XXXX |
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