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The More the Merrier? Bilingualism in an Academic Perspective: Exploring the Implementation of English-medium Instruction in Taiwanese Tertiary Education
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of English-medium instruction in the context of Taiwanese tertiary EFL and content area education. Due to the prevalence of globalization, English has gradually become the only language of instruction in academia, especially in Asia such as Taiwan.
English and Integrated Water Resources Management: A Training Program for the Mekong River Commission
This paper outlines a case study of a content-and-language integrated preparatory program for professionals from five countries in the Mekong River Basin. The broad aim of the program was to improve participants’ ability to use English for communication in the context of integrated water resources management.
How Does Reading Literature for Pleasure Affect EFL Learners?
No one denies that, in general, reading literature is beneficial. But if we read literature particularly for pleasure, we find all kinds of surprising benefits. Conducting this study uncovered some of these benefits for English majors at Sultan Qaboos University.
Promoting Lifelong Learning
The fact that we are inundated with new information more than ever before challenges us in our efforts to keep up with new developments in any given aspect of life. This makes the situation even more difficult for students training to perform professional roles a few years after graduation.
A School-University Collaborative Action Research Teacher Development Programme: A Case of Six Turkish Novice Teachers of English
This original research investigates the impact of a facilitated and supported collaborative action research (CAR), particularly drawing upon its use in the development and evaluation of an in-service teacher development programme.
Critical Thinking in a University EFL Classroom: An Intercultural Syllabus
Critical Thinking is generally considered a core competence for university students, of whatever discipline, and so it is often included in General Education courses, including classes in English, normally required in the first two years of undergraduate studies to develop students’ personalities.
INVESTIGATING THE F-MOVE IN TEACHER TALK: A SOUTH KOREAN STUDY ON TEACHERS’ BELIEFS AND CLASSROOM PRACTICES
Investigation into the relationship between what teachers say, intend, and do can help improve overall teacher effectiveness. Reviews of teacher belief systems and classroom discourse helped base this study on the relationship between beliefs and class practices.
Teaching and Researching Autonomy (second edition)
Phil Benson’s Teaching and Researching Autonomy (Second Edition) is a fully revised and updated follow-up to his widely read 2001 first edition, which proved to be an invaluable tool to introducing language teachers and learners to the concept of autonomous learning.
Collocations Extra: Multi-level Activities for Natural English
Elizabeth Walter & Kate Woodford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 1-126 Reviewed by Esmaeel Hamidi The Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch Tehran, Iran Collocations Extra is one of the recent volumes of work within the field of vocabulary instruction that aims at developing language learners’ competence of collocations. The book, primarily published […]
Working Memory as a Component of Foreign Language Aptitude
Although foreign language aptitude (FLA) has consistently been proved to be one of the best predictors of the outcomes of second language acquisition (SLA) among a wide range of variables, the study of traditional FLA has experienced marginalization in the past thirty years or so due to the shortcomings in its conception and construct.
