Volume 11 Issue 4
EIL, Variations and the Native Speaker’s Model
English language is widely spoken and taught in the world. It is considered a lingua franca and is also considered by many to be the universal and the international language. This language is widely distributed and is currently the primary language of a number of countries.
How Multicultural Learning Approach Impacts Grade for International University Students in a Business Course
This study surveyed over 700 business degree students in the same university program to determine how their cultural background and learning approach impacted their grades. The research replicated and extended earlier published work, taking an interdisciplinary approach by adding cultural factors to a learning style model.
Interaction Between Processing and Maintenance in Online L2 Sentence Comprehension: Implications for Linguistic Threshold Hypothesis
The present study explores the possible mechanism of the L2 reading threshold phenomenon by focusing on the relationship between processing and maintenance efficiency in self-paced reading performance. The subjects were 62 Japanese college-level ESL learners.
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.
