Shulman And Hammerness: A Narrative Analysis

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Harmer (1991,56) that the wise teacher no longer invites students to enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads them to the threshold of their own mind. In this line, Harmer (1991) and Shulman and Hammerness (2002) clarified that teachers' responsibility is no longer providing students with knowledge, or controlling them in the classroom, but to facilitate learning, to employ inspiring pedagogy that instigates higher-order thinking, to be aware of students' prior knowledge, to organize it in a way engage students in activities, and to observe them and provide corrective feedback. In other words, a teachers' job is not just to stand at the front of the class and lecture. EFL teachers' performance is high on any policy agenda;

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