International Journal of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Science
Volume:9 Issue: 2, Spring 2020

This investigation was carried out to explore EFL teachers' understating and perception of postmethod paradigm in English language teaching (ELT). It also aimed at EFL teachers' evaluation and implementation of this pedagogy in their profession. To do so, as a qualitative research method, semi-structured interview was applied. Seven Iranian EFL teachers participated in the interview sessions. The sessions were audio recorded for further analysis. The results of the data analysis showed that majority of the teachers were not fully aware of the nature of postmethod pedagogy. In addition, most of the EFL teachers were found to make the least use of this paradigm in their teaching career. The study ends with recommendations for ELT in educational system of Iran.

This study aimed to predict job performance of Iranian physical education teachers based on basic psychological needs satisfaction and integrative self-knowledge variables. The research method was descriptive correlational and in terms of purpose it was applied. The statistical population of this study was 650 physical education teachers of Ilam city and the sample size was 241 using Cochran formula. This study highlights the idea that developing the efficiency and effectiveness of employees' activities by the help of managers in the form of job performance can have a significant effect on profitability and, ultimately the development of organizational productivity.

Paternalism is a complicated issue which has both theoretical and normative implications. The debate on paternalism is basically about investigating the justificatory arguments. This paper analyzes certain moral conditions under which a paternalistic attitude or behavior is considered to be problematic. It undertakes the task of critically explaining and interpreting different philosophical stances and arguments with regard to these conditions proposed and developed by moral philosophers. In addition to these, the paper attempts to understand and appreciate debate with regard to practical issues of our daily life where the idea of paternalism is seen to be playing a crucial role. And the concept of paternalism is defined followed by discussing the normative issues along with the debate on paternalism.

In this research, through identifying the components of what is called “Iranian Twitter”, we tried to identify and evaluate the patterns of how Iranian Twitter users are affected by the political attitudes of the Iranian Twitter Influencers. For this purpose, Influencers and Followers including 917,318 Iranian users of Twitter were categorized based on their political attitudes; then, patterns of how Followers were affected by Influencers were identified and evaluated for various political attitudes. To categorize Influencers and Followers, we used data mining techniques, and to analyze network data, we applied Gephi software. The results showed that although none of the political attitudes in Iranian Twitter have significant superiority to others, a significant proportion of users who favored a political attitude, displayed little tendency to be exposed to different political messages.

Lesson plan plays an important role in supporting teaching-learning process at schools and institutes. According to the literature available, unfortunately few studies have been conducted on these issues in the context of Iran. Therefore, EFL teachers' attitudes towards lesson planning on improving teaching process seems to be neglected to some extent. Taking this existing gap, the main aim of this study was to describe English teachers' attitudes towards lesson plan based on their teaching experience and teaching place. The sample consisted 93 teachers in Ilam and Eyvan, Iran. A modified version of Ramaila and Ramnarain’s  (2014) questionaire was applied in this study. This study used the descriptive design and employed quantitative approach. Data analysis was done by utilizing descriptive statistic t-test, one-way ANOVA. The findings reveal that no significant difference was observed between teachers' views concerning the given variables. Because of the importance of lesson plan, holding special workshop may provide information for developing better course plans.

Nowadays, numerous factors affect survival of service and industrial units; these factors change rapidly. Organizations should always adapt themselves to changes occurred in environment and their surrounding and should move with them. An organization should not only change its status once in a while, but it should realize that the change phenomenon is permanent and its survival will depend on having such a procedure in the competitive world. Therefore, they are forced to use their resources such as organizational intelligence in the best way to survive. One of the most important abilities of an organization is organizational intelligence that increases the variability capacity of the organization. To do this, organizational intelligence, environmental changes at present and the role of intelligence in survival of organizations with regards to environmental changes are respectively studied in this article.

From layout and extraction of structural and functional experienced patterns from other countries in rural development and entrepreneurship, it can be achieve to a perspective of comprehensive and integration picture from intervention in this areas. This view like as a strategy has performance capability to achieve the goals and especially functions like entrepreneurship, empowerment, capacity building, poverty, and etc. In this article, in addition to a brief review of relevant literature and documentation about entrepreneurship and job creation in rural, it explained definitions and goals, and offered a model to develop rural entrepreneurship and job creation. Finally, these cases are summarized and presented as a pattern of discussion and conclusion, managerial implications, and related recommendations to follow similar researches.