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Khoshsima, Hooshang; Saed, Amin; Mousaei, Fatemeh – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
Language proficiency tests have become common instruments to judge people based on their performance. Thus, the scores on language proficiency tests, such as the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) or Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), play a crucial role in the test-takers' lives. Because of increasing demands on…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Test Wiseness
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Walsh, Rupert – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2021
Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) is now common in extra-curricular language learning, but, more recently, teachers have increasingly sought ways to utilise MALL as a communicative classroom tool. Research into the extent that MALL can transform a whole communicative language course, and learners' impressions of such courses, is scarce.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Communicative Competence (Languages), Computer Assisted Instruction, Telecommunications
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Abas, Imelda Hermilinda; Aziz, Noor Hashima Abd – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The objectives of this study were to explore the writing process of the Indonesian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students and to find out the effectiveness of using think-aloud protocol to understand the writing process. The data were obtained from six proficient EFL students who were doing Postgraduate English Language Studies Program in…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Academic Discourse
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Sabet, Masood Khalili; Babaei, Hamid Reza – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
The challenge for many teachers teaching in academic English programs is, on the one hand, to actualize the objectives of their course and on the other hand, prepare their students for the important international tests such as IELTS and TOEFL. The current study seeks to reconcile this challenge by drawing on the relationship between the IELTS…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning
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Ping, Rebecca Lee Su – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Past research has found that many pre-university L2 learners, having completed an Intensive English Program (IEP) still have difficulty in undertaking various disciplines in English-speaking tertiary institutions and continue to exhibit numerous linguistic problems (Bialystok, 2001, Celce Murcia 2001). The purpose of this paper is to present the…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Cognitive Style, English (Second Language), Intensive Language Courses