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Teaching Interactive Strategies with Video Clips

Teaching Interactive Strategies with Video Clips

| October 24, 2012

Young EFL learners are often hesitant to speak up and participate in Oral Communication courses. This paper presents an effective use of Near Peer Role Modeling (NPRMing) combined with video clips as a way to model interactive strategies.

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A Qualitative Study Exploring the Content Learned in English as a Foreign Language Classes Taught by Native Speakers

A Qualitative Study Exploring the Content Learned in English as a Foreign Language Classes Taught by Native Speakers

| October 16, 2012

The growths of the global economic environment, the availability and accessibility of transportation, and the advancement of information and communication technologies have created a new focus on English education.

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Changes in Personality and Oral Competence after Studying English Abroad

Changes in Personality and Oral Competence after Studying English Abroad

| October 16, 2012

In the 1970s, a study by researchers at the University of Toronto attempted to link several areas of personality with second language (Naiman 1978). This study represented the first examination of personality within a second language context, yet despite an abundance of linkage attempts within the study, few connections between personality and second language could be identified. As pointed out by DeWaele and Furnham (Dewaele and Furnham 1999), personality research basically disappeared from the TESOL field.

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The Motivation For and Attitude Towards Learning English

The Motivation For and Attitude Towards Learning English

| October 16, 2012

It is a historical fact that the use of English as an official second language in the Philippines is mandated by the Constitution of the country. Filipinos have been exposed to English instruction for such a long time at different levels to attain the desired level of proficiency in comprehensive and productive skills.

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Analysing the English communication needs and difficulties of Journalism undergraduates in Hong Kong

Analysing the English communication needs and difficulties of Journalism undergraduates in Hong Kong

| October 2, 2012

This research investigates the English communication needs and difficulties of Journalism undergraduates in Hong Kong. Journalism students learn how to conduct interviews and write news stories in English on their degree courses, which shows their communication needs in English;

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A Small Clean Warm Plastic: Understanding EFL1 Autobiographical Writing and Identity

A Small Clean Warm Plastic: Understanding EFL1 Autobiographical Writing and Identity

| September 17, 2012

In the past two decades, autobiographical writing has grown into a powerful way of informing Second Language or L2 learners’ identities, but not yet in the EFL context. Focusing on Anne, the writer of “An unforgettable event in childhood” to be quoted partially below, this case study–as guided by a postmodern framework through a multi-storied approach to narrative analysis–explores the impact of EFL autobiographical writing on identity.

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Word Knowledge: Aspects, Viewpoints and Performances

Word Knowledge: Aspects, Viewpoints and Performances

| September 17, 2012 | 0 Comments

This study collected learner and teacher beliefs about depth of vocabulary knowledge in L1 and L2 to see if and to what extent these aspects were taken as important, and whether there was any relationship between the ratings of these aspects in L2 and learners’ actual performance.

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A Quantitative Reanalysis of Data on the Structure of L1 and L2 Language Ability in Multitrait-Multimethod Studies

A Quantitative Reanalysis of Data on the Structure of L1 and L2 Language Ability in Multitrait-Multimethod Studies

| September 17, 2012 | 0 Comments

To gain a better understanding of the structure of L1 and L2 language ability, we conducted an extensive literature search to collect multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) studies. We specifically examined the unitary, correlated, uncorrelated, and higher-order structures of language ability to determine which of these best fit the data across studies. We used confirmatory factor analysis to reanalyze 58 correlation or covariance matrices from 39 studies, among which we retained 17 correlation or covariance matrices from 14 studies for the main analysis.

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Participation in and Opposition to the Ideology of English in South Korea: Insights from Personal Narratives

Participation in and Opposition to the Ideology of English in South Korea: Insights from Personal Narratives

| September 17, 2012 | 0 Comments

The purpose of this study is to investigate how the ideology of English influences English language classroom interactions in South Korea. The ideology of English is a set of beliefs about the necessity of English language skills, particularly the ability to converse in English.

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L2 Phone-based Interaction (PBI) and Development of Communicative Competence: A Case Study of an Adult’s English Learning in EFL Context

L2 Phone-based Interaction (PBI) and Development of Communicative Competence: A Case Study of an Adult’s English Learning in EFL Context

| September 17, 2012 | 0 Comments

While L2 interaction over the telephone is growing method (Hong, 2008) for L2learning in some EFL countries (e.g., Korea, Japan, China), there has been no research investigating whether and how phone-based speech communication contributes to a learner’s L2 speaking ability. The purpose of this case study is to investigate the effectiveness of phone-based L2 interaction (PBI) by examining development of an EFL learner’s L2 communicative competence and increase of the learners’ willingness to communicate (WTC).

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