This paper explores the place of English in Iran. To do this, we look at the social presence of
English in Urmia (the capital of West Azerbaijan province, Iran). The paper draws on …

This study aimed to refine and validate the Dispositions towards Loving Pedagogy (DTLP)
Scale and to ascertain the views of pre-service teachers on the aspects of loving pedagogy …

Internationalising higher education (HE) shows tensions between recruiting international
students as a means of securing income and meeting their particular educational needs …

Reviewing the ups and downs of English in Iran indicates that especially in the last two
decades it has been a site of growing struggle between two rival sectors. The first one is the …

Title: The Routledge handbook of Chinese applied linguistics/edited by Chu-Ren Huang,
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, and Barbara Meisterernst. Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY …

Metaphor analysis is increasingly recognized as an innovative research tool in education.
Researchers so far have used it mainly to investigate the conceptions and beliefs of …

The present study explores the ways in which English is used in public discourse in Tehran-
Iran and the motivations of Iranian-English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners and …

Good teachers in university education embody combinations of continuity and change. In the
first part here, university teaching is considered in Western philosophies and educational …

This paper employs the innovative method of Elicited Metaphor Analysis to present original
research in Malaysia into students' metaphors for 'language'. We summarize reasons why …

This chapter presents analyses of metaphors concerning the profession of teachers in China
and Iran. It gives significant examples of metaphors used frequently in public discourse …