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Tasnim, Zakiyah – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
With millions of non-native English language users, English has gained the position of 'global language' in the last century. English literature also has a significant number of non-native writers from around the world. While grasping their own cultures in English, these non-native writers have been transforming English language to a remarkable…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Usage, Language Variation
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Verma, Meenakshi Harraw – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2011
Engineering students tend to pay more attention to their core subject classes rather than on an English language class. They all come from different social and academic backgrounds and their knowledge of English language varies from one another. A mixed ability group throws many challenges to an English language teacher teaching to a grown up or…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Language Acquisition, Engineering Education, College Second Language Programs
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Shantha, S.; Mekala, S. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
The mastery of speaking skills in English has become a major requisite in engineering industry. Engineers are expected to possess speaking skills for executing their routine activities and career prospects. The article focuses on the experimental study conducted to improve English spoken proficiency of Indian engineering students using task-based…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Task Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Comparative Analysis
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Sheema, Fatima – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2013
The present paper attempts to deal with the present scenario of teaching English for Undergraduate students at AMU. The researcher has tried to analyze the needs, materials and the teaching trends as well as learning strategies of the students, at the Undergraduate level. It also illuminates the difference in study skills between groups of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Chowdhury, Piku – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2013
Multiculturalism and multi-ethnicity have assumed the status of the most charged signs characterizing social contingencies and resultant violence in the increasingly glocalized world today. Minoritization continually interrupts and interrogates the homogeneous, horizontal claim of the projected democratic liberal society. Solidarity turns out to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Peace
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Choubey, Asha – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2011
Feelings of anxiety, apprehension and nervousness are commonly expressed by second/foreign language learners in learning to speak a second/foreign language. These feelings are considered to exert a potentially negative and detrimental effect on communication in the target language. I shall dwell on my own experience as a practitioner of ELT, and…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)