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Gilakjani, Abbas Pourhosein; Sabouri, Narjes Banou – English Language Teaching, 2016
Listening is one of the most important skills in English language learning. When students listen to English language, they face a lot of listening difficulties. Students have critical difficulties in listening comprehension because universities and schools pay more attention to writing, reading, and vocabulary. Listening is not an important part…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Listening Skills, English (Second Language), Listening Comprehension
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Xu, Wei – English Language Teaching, 2015
Any instructional practice must be derived from a teacher's knowledge base for teaching, which can be acquired by training, study, or practice. While much attention has been paid to teachers' practical content knowledge in real educational settings, comprehensive syntheses of expert knowledge on a particular teaching task for a specific group of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Wan, Xuemei – English Language Teaching, 2009
"The Story of an Hour," written by the American woman writer, Kate Chopin (1851-1904) fully shows us the tremendous conflict between life and death among those women who had the more self-awareness, the less social living space according to the established social norms 100 years ago in a dramatic way. The heroine's strong desire for…
Descriptors: Novels, Authors, Conflict, Death
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Rogers, Robert Johnson – English Language Teaching, 2010
Despite the vast research on learning strategies and their application to receptive skills, relatively little has been written on the effect of learning strategies on productive skills, writing in particular, and even less has been written about the effect of metacognitive strategy training and how it might be implemented into the classroom. This…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Writing Instruction, English for Special Purposes, Learning Strategies
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Ajideh, Parviz – English Language Teaching, 2009
The reform in teaching and curriculum involves not only in the teaching content, but more so in teachers' methodology, the students' learning strategies and the changed relationship between students and teachers in the classroom setting. The purpose of this paper is to suggest that what is needed for ESP is a different orientation to English study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), English for Special Purposes, Second Language Instruction