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Alsulami, Yusuf Ahmad K. – English Language Teaching, 2021
This paper evaluates a textbook called "Traveller 4" that is used in the second grade of secondary schools in Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia, considering its general appearance and design, objectives, content, social and cultural contexts, tasks and activities, and usefulness for developing language skills. The paper also reviews the…
Descriptors: Textbook Evaluation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Safari, Mahshad; Koosha, Mansour – English Language Teaching, 2016
Regarding the fundamental role of speaking in language skills, this study intended to investigate the effects of speaking portfolio as an alternative form of assessment for assessing Iranian EFL learners' speaking ability at the intermediate and advanced proficiency levels and also its impact on their attitudes. Accordingly, from the population of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Portfolios (Background Materials)
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Nguyen, Ha Thi – English Language Teaching, 2016
Peer feedback plays a pivotal role in stimulating students' participation in L2 writing, which has the potential to develop students' writing skills. The concept of metacognition has also been examined to facilitate learner writers in their learning process. As such, this study drawing upon the concept of metacognition explores the implementation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Second Language Instruction, Writing Skills
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Ahour, Touran; Towhidiyan, Bayezid; Saeidi, Mahnaz – English Language Teaching, 2014
The purpose of this study was to investigate the appropriateness of "English Textbook 2" for Iranian EFL second grade high school students from the teachers' perspectives. The participants of the study consisted of 25 English teachers (8 females and 17 males) randomly selected from different high schools in Boukan, Iran. The evaluation…
Descriptors: Textbook Evaluation, Course Descriptions, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
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Abdelhalim, Safaa M. – English Language Teaching, 2015
This study examines the effectiveness of a proposed English language program based on integrating two forms of children literature, mainly short stories and songs, in developing the needed life skills and language learning strategies of primary school students. Besides, it emphasized the importance of providing EFL fifth year primary students with…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Childrens Literature, Teaching Methods
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Abedi, Razie; Latifi, Mehdi; Moinzadeh, Ahmad – English Language Teaching, 2010
This study tries to answer some ever-existent questions in writing fields regarding approaching the most effective ways to give feedback to students' errors in writing by comparing the effect of error correction and error detection on the improvement of students' writing ability. In order to achieve this goal, 60 pre-intermediate English learners…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Zhao, Na – English Language Teaching, 2009
This paper attempts to tap the relationship between metacognitive strategy training and vocabulary learning of college students through a five week training program. It aims to answer the following question: Can metacognitive strategy training facilitate vocabulary learning of Chinese college students? Both questionnaire and tests were used in the…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies