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Factors Affecting the Integration of Information and Communications Technology in Teaching English in Taiwan
As language and technology are two major focuses of educational reform in Taiwanese higher education, Taiwanese teachers of English as a foreign language have to cope with the challenge of technological and pedagogical shifts occurring in the teaching profession.
Learning to Use the Articles, A and The, in One Lesson
To deal effectively with an area of language which some consider unteachable, this report proposes a single lesson based on consciousness-raising to teach some general principles which govern the use of the articles.
An Evaluation of an Internet-Based Learning Model from EFL Perspectives
World Wide Web emerges as a potential language learning resource, which has received much attention over the past decade. Among numerous technology-enhanced applications, WebQuest has become one of the popular learning models which makes use of Internet resources by engaging students in authentic and collaborative tasks.
English-teaching in Elementary Schools in Japan: A Review of a Current Government Survey
In this article, I present a critical overview of the current situation in English-Teaching in public elementary schools in Japan whilst making some productive suggestions based upon contemporary research and social trends.
The Study of English Learners Synthesizing Process While Reading
This research investigated how English learners could retell two types of passages with culturally familiar and unfamiliar topics. The oral retelling was used to measure the fourteen teenage participants’ reading comprehension of twelve English passages with Chinese and non-Chinese topics.
An Economical Approach towards Interaction in the L2 Classroom: A Task-based Learning Experiment
This paper reports on a piece of classroom research involving a group of Liberal Arts/TEFL undergraduates from the Federal University of Amazonas. Informed by Jane Willis’s framework for task-based language learning and Michael Breen’s insights into the involvement of learners in the evaluation of learning task cycles, a unit of study was designed and implemented to experiment with clustered tasks as a means of maintaining peer-peer oral/aural interaction in the classroom at substantial levels.
Lexical Collocations and their Relation to Speaking Proficiency of College EFL Learners in Taiwan
The present study explores the knowledge and use of English lexical collocations and their relation to the speaking proficiency (assessed by two speaking tests) of Taiwanese EFL university learners. Data for the study were collected from 56 junior English majors at a national university of science and technology in southern Taiwan.
Another Look at the C-Test: A Validation Study with Iranian EFL Learners
This study probes into the validity and discrimination power of the C-Test for the assessment of overall language proficiency. A total of 144 university students participated in this study. A Michigan Test of English Language Proficiency (MTELP) and a C-Test developed by the researcher were administered.
Is Syntactic Maturity a Reliable Measurement to Investigate the Relationship Between English Speaking and Writing?
Numerous studies have been carried out to study the relationship between English speaking and writing. Researchers have adopted a great many measurements to investigate this relationship. However, the reliability of these measurements has been questioned.
Mentoring Beginning EFL Teachers at Tertiary Level in Vietnam
Mentoring is a prominent approach used in teacher professional development in the world, especially in the U.S.A, U.K. and other Western countries but is not fully employed in beginning teacher education in Vietnam. Therefore, this study examines the current situation of mentoring at university and investigates beginning English language teachers’ attitudes and feelings toward their mentoring experiences.
