Volume 51
Creating and Sharing Writing iRubrics
Rubrics are scoring guides, consisting of specific pre-established performance criteria, used in evaluating student work. iRubric is a comprehensive rubric development, assessment, and sharing tool. It shows the major skills and subskills to be mastered, the different mastery levels, and marks allocated to each level. Rubrics can be collaboratively assessed with colleagues, classes and other individuals.
The Impact of “Imagination of Students” in the Development of the Professional Identity of Four Japanese Teachers of English in Japanese Higher Education
This study investigates how relatively new Japanese teachers of English in higher education in Japan develop their professional identity. Teachers’ professional identity has come to be seen as one of the most critical components in shaping classroom practices (Varghese, Morgan, Johnston & Johnson, 2005). Language teachers, who were previously viewed as technicians who applied appropriate pedagogical methodologies…
The Impact of EFL Students’ Vocabulary Breadth of Knowledge on Literal Reading Comprehension
Second language reading is a challenging task for foreign language learners. The amount of vocabulary students store in their brains will assist them in understanding reading, especially when students’ first language is a nonalphabetic language. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether EFL students’ vocabulary breadth knowledge influences their literal reading comprehension.
Examining the Vocabulary Levels of Indonesia’s English National Examination Texts
This study is designed to create a corpus of junior high school (JHS) and senior high school (SHS) English National Examination (NE) texts used in Indonesia throughout four years of administration to form the basis of analysis. By means of corpus analysis, it sought to find out the vocabulary levels of junior and senior high school English NE texts (distribution among the K1 – K20 vocabulary levels…
Understanding Your Students: An Investigation on Topics of Interest to Chinese EFL Graduate Student
This paper is an illustration of a tentative study conducted to investigate the areas and topics Chinese Non-English major graduate students are interested in speaking, writing and reading about. A total of 172 Chinese Non-English major graduate students participated in this study. Each of the participants was required to…
