Volume 12 Issue 1
Investigating the relationship between Self-assessment and teacher-assessment in a academic contexts
The main purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationship between performance testing and alternative assessment. More specifically, the study addressed the following questions: 1) Is there any correlation between student self-rating and teacher-rating in a speaking test?
Computer Mediated Collaborative Learning within a Communicative Language Teaching Approach:A Sociocultural Perspective
The article aims to discuss the roles of computer mediated collaborative learning (CMCL) in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom equipped with a communicative language teaching (CLT) approach. The discussion moves from an overview of the principal domains of sociocultural theory (SCT) applicable to collaborative…
An investigation of the Current State of College Teachers’ Teaching Quality and Teacher Development
In the progress of China’s education reform, the general public has realized the importance of English education, especially college English education, more than ever. In the teaching process of college English education, college EFL teachers’ quality is a key issue.
Teacher Questions in Second Language Classrooms: An Investigation of Three Case Studies
The present study investigates the types of questions asked by three NNS pre-service English teachers teaching in three different bands of secondary schools during the whole class teaching portion of their lessons through analyzing the transcripts of their videotaped lessons.
Relative cultural contributions of religion and ethnicity to the language learning strategy choices of ESL students in Sri Lankan and Japanese high schools
Ethnicity and religion have been shown to be significantly associated with the use of metacognitive, cognitive, and social-affective strategies by Sri Lankan high school students learning English as a second language (Liyanage, 2004)
A pre-trial collection and investigation of what perceptions and attitudes of Konglish exist amongst foreign and Korean English language teachers in terms of English education in Korea
This paper is a pre-trial collection and investigation of the perceptions that selected foreign and Korean English teachers have of Konglish in relation to English education in Korea. The knowledge gained in this pre-trial will help English educators, both Korean and foreign to 1) to get a better understanding of both groups of teachers’ view of Konglish as it relates to issues of identity and ownership…
Vocabulary Knowledge and Comprehension in Second Language Text Processing: A Reciprocal Relationship?
The overall aim of this study is to determine whether the relationship between vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension is that of mutual dependency in the reading of expository texts by ESL students at the University of Botswana. Furthermore, the research explores the vocabulary size of first year students in the faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Botswana.
The Effects of Collocation Instruction on the Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Learning of College English Majors
Over the past decades, studies of EFL/ESL vocabulary acquisition have pinpointed the importance of collocations in language learning. Most findings showed that general collocational knowledge among EFL learners was insufficient and that collocational knowledge is beneficial for EFL learning…
Active and Passive Vocabulary Knowledge: The Effect of Years of Instruction
Abstract: The present study investigated the relationship between two types of English vocabulary knowledge i.e. passive and controlled active, after different years of school instruction in an ESL environment. To carry out the study The Level Test for passive vocabulary size..
Type of Task and Type of Dictionary in Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition
In this study, the effect of form-oriented comprehension and form-oriented production tasks on incidental vocabulary acquisition in terms of using either monolingual or bilingual dictionaries and also considering the gender and the bilingual nature of the subjects was investigated.
