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Wang, Jianwei – English Language Teaching, 2021
Lexical approach has been believed to be an ideal way for language teaching and learning, but few empirical studies are concerned with the effects that lexical approach has on art major students' English writing. This study aims to explore the effects the lexical has on writing through an experiment in which the lexical approach was applied in an…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Art Education, Majors (Students), Writing Improvement
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Xu, Junfang – English Language Teaching, 2020
PAD (Presentation-Assimilation-Discussion) is a new teaching mode put forward by Professor Zhang Xuexin of Fudan University, which has attracted the attention of academic circles in recent years and has been widely used in teaching practice in China. After personal practice in college English courses, the author believes that in order to optimize…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), College Second Language Programs, Foreign Countries, Teaching Models
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Demirel, Elif Tokdemir – English Language Teaching, 2017
The present study aims to explore Turkish EFL students' major writing difficulties by analyzing the frequent writing errors in academic essays. Accordingly, the study examined errors in a corpus of 150 academic essays written by Turkish EFL students studying at the Department of English Language and Literature at a public university in Turkey. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Error Correction, Error Analysis (Language), English (Second Language)
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Dakhiel, Maysoon A. – English Language Teaching, 2017
Several Universities in Saudi Arabia have recently made it their priority to pursue excellence in effective EFL teaching-learning starting from the Preparatory Year Program (PYP). That is due to the rapid expansion of English as a lingua franca in tertiary education especially in science and technology, scientific and educational publication,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Performance Factors
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Luo, Jian-ping – English Language Teaching, 2013
This action research is aiming at improvement of reading comprehension of College English teaching and learning, which is a major time-consuming course with low efficiency in colleges and universities in China. The research subjects were 134 first-year college students of science, engineering and liberal arts, who were from either developed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Programs, Second Language Learning
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Luan, Yuqin; Guo, Xiuzhen – English Language Teaching, 2011
This paper reports an empirical study on the application of the immersion approach to English teaching in North China Institute of Science and Technology (NCIST) in line with the basic principles of the Canadian immersion teaching mode. The experiment result and survey shows that the students involved in the immersion course improve faster in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Immersion Programs
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Bidabadi, Farinaz Shirani; Yamat, Hamidah – English Language Teaching, 2011
The purpose of the current study was to identify Iranian EFL freshman university students' listening proficiency levels and the listening strategies they employed to investigate the relationship between these two variables. A total of 92 freshmen were involved in this study. The Oxford Placement Test was employed to identify the learners'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Programs