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Green, Kieran – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
Language is nature in action and something humans do. This literature review presents evidence from the literature that suggests that learning a foreign language in a classroom situation does not require high levels of student motivation. It is instead suggested that high levels of motivation are needed to make progress when a teacher is using…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, Literature Reviews
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Charunsri, Kamonwan – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
The trends of globalization and intercultural communication influence education in most countries of the world. The implementation of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) is a big challenge for Thai content teachers and professional development programs. It is not easy for both teachers and learners who are non-native speakers of…
Descriptors: Barriers, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach, English (Second Language)
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Gill, Chamkaur – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This paper proposes that activities based on a variety of drama-based techniques could be valuable in giving Asian ESL learners opportunities to use communicative spoken English confidently and without restraint during their time in English-language-speaking countries. These learners often get anxious when in situations where they are required to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language
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Bhandari, Laxman Prasad – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2020
Task-based language teaching (TBLT) is one of the widely discussed teaching approaches at present. Teaching a lesson using tasks needs careful consideration of the age and interests of the learners. This paper provides an overview, characteristics and advantages of TBLT; highlights teacher and student roles; and explores teachers' perceptions of…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Obaidullah, Md. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
It is a long established notion that learning a language means becoming skilled in the four major skills--Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing. Without being expert in the aforementioned skills, language learning is quite impossible. But there are other two skills like "Thinking" and "Understanding" which appear to be…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Thinking Skills, Comprehension, Language Acquisition
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Husna, Fauziatul – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2013
Motivation is by large a fundamental aspect in learning foreign languages which plays significant role in determining the outcome of the learning process. For more than a decade now, EFL in Indonesia have been in the stagnant period when various efforts could not result as expected. One of the problems is that those efforts often do not deal with…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Active Learning
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Boonma, Malai; Phaiboonnugulkij, Malinee – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This article calls for a strong need to propose the theoretical framework of the Multiple Intelligences theory (MI) and provide a suitable answer of the doubt in part of foreign language teaching. The article addresses the application of MI theory following various sources from Howard Gardner and the authors who revised this theory for use in the…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hamamra, Bilal Tawfiq; Qararia, Salsabil – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
Bilingualism and biculturalism have a very immediate impact on the make-up of literary works of bilingual and bicultural authors with immediate linguistic traces of bilingual and bicultural mosaic of textual creation. Code-switching is a linguistic and cultural practice used by bilinguals in writing and speaking. This article examines the…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Authors, Bilingualism, Biculturalism
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Rezqallah, May Stephan – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
With the advent of communication facilities, most of our students are enthusiastic to get highly acquainted with rhythmical languages; one of these languages is English. Students prefer to speak the language more than to write a composition, or get in touch with its grammar. In other words, a question is raised "how can we learn English…
Descriptors: Correlation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Chakraborty, Rahul – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
This paper discusses the interrelations among accent-based biases, social identity and ethnocentrism. Construction of social identity creates a set of ethnocentric values within a person, which indirectly or directly plays a pivotal role in generating accent related biases. Starting with Tajfel's (1959) social identity theory and then the…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Social Bias, Ethnocentrism, Speech Language Pathology
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Bazyar, Zahra; Dastpak, Mehdi; Taghinezhad, Ali – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
A syllabus is a plan showing the subjects or books to be studied in a particular course, especially a course that leads to an exam. There are various syllabuses available for different purposes. This article represents the classification of syllabuses regarding different authors' views and perspectives. The aim of this article, after depicting…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Student Needs, Classification, Outcomes of Education
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Debora, Irene – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2013
Young Learners have less reinforcement to speak with others. One of the causes is the trend of formal or clumsy learning setting in emphasizing the speaking proficiency. Speaking based on the culture context also contribute them in increasing their motivation to express their ideas. "Casual style" as one of the language variations gives…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Motivation
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Xu, Sibing – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This paper explains the situation of Mandarin, Suzhou dialect and English in Suzhou, the relation between language policy and language use, discusses the positive and negative consequences that multilingualism in Suzhou might have for the society, and focuses on the change of language use in Suzhou and provides suggestions for the maintenance of…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Dialects, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Shabani, Karim – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2012
Vygotsky's concept of ZPD (Zone of Proximal Development) has been recently applied to the context of language teacher education by a number of researchers (e.g. Ohta, 2005; Singh & Richards, 2006; Nassaji & Cumming, 2000). Besides Vygotsky's notion of ZPD, this paper relies on two associated theories from outside the TESOL discipline…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Qualitative Research, Sociocultural Patterns, English (Second Language)
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Iber, George – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
It has been my privilege to work within the ELTC for a period of 10 months, learning about the English language problems and aspirations of the Ministry of Education. While tasked to work directly on a Remedial Instruction Module, it became apparent that the scopes of the initiatives in Malaysia are much more far reaching. In this paper I wish to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Curriculum, English (Second Language), Remedial Instruction
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