English Teaching in Iran
Ali Akbar Abedian Kasgari, Researcher (Iran, Islamic Republic of)
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to provide a contemporary portrait of Language Teaching in Iran, and transparently to study the second language learning and teaching in Iran. In fact the paper is to identify major trends and issues and to show where English language teaching methods and techniques have come from and to illustrate ways teachers can incorporate the different techniques of various methods in their own teaching practices. As a method of study; the essay is a personal account, tracing the author and his colleagues’ struggles with theoretical and conceptual issues and illustrating practical solutions. It is composed of some facts covering the conceptual and empirical basis for English language teaching. The findings which are concluded from practical classes of those teachers who wish develop the materials and pedagogical procedures, focusing on the specified methods and their relatively techniques which are appropriate for Persian speakers who are learning English language. At last the article recommends the English language teachers to instruct a combination of different techniques which are appropriate for Persian speakers who wish to learn English in a better way respectively.
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