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EFL Children’s Views on English Picture Story Books
This article reports the results of a study with a group of primary school students in Taiwan to explore their views on reading English picture story books. The study began with eight reading sessions in which the researcher read four English picture story books with a group of 22 children, which was followed by nine semi-structured group interviews with the children.
The Effect of Assisted RR on Fluency and Comprehension in Chinese FL Classrooms
Assisted Repeated Reading has been found effective for enhancing reading fluency in FL classrooms elsewhere outside China. The present study attempts to look into the effectiveness of the newly introduced treatment in improving the reading fluency and comprehension of Chinese College English students.
Impacts of Vietnam’s Social Context on Learners’ Attitudes Towards Foreign Languages and English Language Learning: Implications for Teaching and Learning
his paper discusses the changes in Vietnamese learners’ attitudes towards foreign language learning based on an investigation into the history of foreign languages in Vietnam. Most of this paper will focus on English language learning because it is currently the most important foreign language in Vietnam.
Chinese Phonotactic Patterns and the Pronunciation Difficulties of Mandarin-Speaking EFL Learners
To draw EFL teachers’ attention to pronunciation difficulties resulting from L1 phonotactic constraints, this study examined the hypothesis that certain syllable structures could cause more mispronunciation than segmental sounds for Mandarin-speaking EFL learners.
A Comparison of the Effects of Corrections on Definite/Indefinite Articles and Regular/Irregular Past Tense Forms: A Case of Iranian EFL Learners
The major purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of error correction on EFL learners’ acquisition of some grammatical features. More specifically, the study looked at the learning effects of correcting learners’ errors on definite and indefinite articles as well as errors on regular and irregular past tense verb forms.
Students and Teachers Use of and Attitudes to L1 in the EFL Classroom
This study examines the students’ and teachers’ attitudes to the use of L1 in EFL classrooms at a Korean School in Vietnam. Little research has been done on English language teaching in multilevel language classrooms in the Asian context.
Disciplines of English and disciplining by English
The article stresses the importance of seeing English in context, both in terms of its global importance and how we refer to it: labels such as ‘lingua franca’ are misleading. The fact that there is a standard form of written English of global relevance should not beguile one into thinking that the language is ideologically neutral.
The Applicability of Principles for Instructed Second Language Learning: A South Korean Perspective
Communicative language teaching (CLT) approaches in second language (L2) education have been central to recent curricula innovations in a number of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts, including South Korea. Research indicates that teachers can face challenges in implementing these initiatives and feel frustrated by constraints perceived to be outside their locus of control.
Teaching Aids: Effective in Iranian Students Lexical Acquisition?
This study is a quantitative exploration of the effects of employing teaching aids on lexical acquisition. Two groups of advanced adult EFL learners were assigned to the treatment and control group. The treatment included the use of videos, flash cards, and dictionaries over a four-month period of time to observe whether vocabulary acquisition is completed better. We took cognizance not to let the participants know they were in an experiment.
Use of Refusal Strategies by Turkish EFL Learners and Native Speakers of English in Urban and Rural Areas
The aim of the present study is to put forward the ways in which Turkish learners of English use the speech act of refusal and to reveal whether or not regional variety affects the kind of refusal strategies used. Data were collected through a discourse completion questionnaire in order to investigate the similarities and differences…
