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Non Standardized language Tests, Faulty evaluations and it’s impact on Pakistani educational setup
The examination mechanism in Pakistan has many loopholes, the local benchmarking is entirely not existing, many Pakistani examiners are not trained in the application of rating tests accordingly the scale descriptors, due to this students do not get vivid feedback about their test performances. Therefore, this study is designed to facilitate and initiate the interest of the English language teachers in Pakistan to understand the importance of sound assessment and validation mechanisms, and their exposure…
Effects of Collaborative Blogging on Communicative Skills in Writing of Thai EFL University Students
This study explored the effects of collaborative blogging on communicative skills in writing of Thai EFL students. It also investigated the student’s attitudes as a result of collaborative blogging. The participants were 12 fourth-year university students from the northeastern part of Thailand, studying English as their major field of study. They had not written blogs before, and were relatively new to the concept of blogging.
Multiple intelligences and vocabulary recall in Young Learners: An Action Research Project
This paper seeks to engage in attempts to problematize hegemony associated with ELT Effective classroom activities that acknowledge multiple intelligences and learning styles increase the probability of young learners’ (YLs’) acquisition and retention of vocabulary, which is valuable for language acquisition (Hughes, 2006). This research project presented results of a quantitative Action Research Project (AR) involving a class of approximately 25 students in a Japanese kindergarten.
From Reading to translation- the effects of L1/L2 supplementary reading on Taiwanese university students’ translation performance
This study adopted translation as the measurement to examine the effect of background knowledge, provided in the form of reading from university students’ first (Chinese) or second (English) language, on their performance of an English-to-Chinese translation text. 150 EFL English majors were involved in this study.
