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Cooperative and Individual Reading: The Effect on Writing Fluency and Accuracy
This study aims to find out the effect of Cooperative Directed Reading on the writing performance of ESL undergraduate students compared to Directed Reading without Cooperation and no treatment. A quasi-experimental research with the non-equivalent pretest-posttest control group design was used.
Integrating Input Enhancement and Processing Instruction in Promoting Acquisition of English Phrasal Verbs
This study discusses how visual input and textual enhancement, combined with processing instruction (VanPatten, 1996, 2004a, 2004b etc.), facilitates the learning of English phrasal verbs for Chinese learners of English. English phrasal verbs have long been a confusing structure for EFL/ESL learners, partly because of their random combination of verb and particle, but also because of their manifestation of polysemy
Initiation of World Englishes into EFL Writing Classrooms in Japanese Secondary School
This paper reports a biographic enquiry of two tertiary English learners from mainland China and attempts to capture the developmental processes of their language learning approaches. Through sharing their past language learning experiences, two Chinese learners verbalized their struggles in language learning and revealed the deep impact that their learning settings had on their perceptions of self and language learning.
ESL Writers: A Guide for Writing Center Tutors
Reviewers: M.A. Nashwa Ezzat Badr Indiana University of Pennsylvania Email: vwhl@iup.edu and M.A. Mai Amin Hassan Indiana University of Pennsylvania Email: vrhl@iup.edu Book Title ESL Writers: A Guide for Writing Center Tutors Edited By Shanti Bruce and Ben Rafoth Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers Inc., 2004. Pp. vii +173 In ESL Writers: A Guide for Writing […]
International Legal English
Amy Krois-Lindner and TransLegal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. 320. Reviewed by Ruth Breeze Institute of Modern Languages, Edificio Biblioteca de Ciencias, University of Navarra, Spain Navarra, Spain The need for textbooks that equip students with the language skills needed to cope with legal English has been growing considerably over recent years. In a […]
World Englishes: Implications for International Communication and English Language Teaching
Kirkpatrick, Andy. World Englishes: Implications for International Communication and English Language Teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. x + 257. Reviewed by Deepti Gupta Panjab University Chandigarh, India As stated in the introduction of World Englishes, this book differs [from other texts] . . . in that it aims to describe selected varieties of […]
Vocabulary in a Second Language
Bogaards, P., Laufer, B. (Eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2004. Pp. xiv + 233. Reviewed by Majid Fattahipour Islamic Azad University Parand, Iran Containing eleven chapters which fit into three categories (vocabulary selection, acquisition, and testing), Vocabulary in a Second Language, is a creative collection of papers that provides an overview of the research in the […]
Motivation and Attitudes toward Learning English in an Internet-Based Informal Context: Perceptions of Iranian University Students
The present study examines how Iranian university students are motivated to learn L2 in informal contexts and whether they have integrativeness and attitudes toward the Internet-based informal context as necessary attitudinal foundations to sustain motivation.
Initiation of World Englishes into EFL Writing Classrooms in Japanese Secondary School
This paper focuses primarily on the potential for the teaching of writing which incorporates the concept of varieties of English into writing classes in Japanese secondary school. The purpose of this paper is to identify the issue of teaching writing in Japanese junior and senior high school and to discuss the possibility of initiating the concept of World Englishes (WEs) in this context.
