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Escudero, Isabel; Fuertes, Narcisa; López, Ligia – English Language Teaching, 2019
Reading comprehension in Ecuadorian students has been mostly managed at a literal comprehension level, leaving out inferential and critical comprehension. This is because most of the articles students read require a high level of literacy and a good domain of comprehension strategies. One of these strategies is paraphrasing; therefore, the purpose…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Comprehension
Nejmaoui, Nabila – English Language Teaching, 2019
In the 21st century where information has become easily available and accessible, education has shifted its attention to teaching students how to process and think critically about the information they receive. Welcoming the changes that education constantly witnesses, the field of English Language Teaching (ELT) has embraced the integration of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Critical Thinking
Pangaribuan, Tagor; Sinaga, Andromeda; Sipayung, Kammer Tuahman – English Language Teaching, 2017
Listening comprehension is a complex skill particulaly in mastered by non-native speaker settings. This research aimed at finding out the effect of multimedia application on students' listening. The research design is experimental, with a t-test. The population is the sixth semester of HKBP Nommensen University at the academic year of 2016/2017,…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Multimedia Instruction, Multimedia Materials, Instructional Effectiveness
Qoura, Ali A.; Zahran, Faten A. – English Language Teaching, 2018
The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the 6+1 trait writing model on ESP university students' critical thinking and writing achievement. It was assumed that students who receive training using the 6+1 trait writing model would reveal greater gains in critical thinking and writing achievement. Six instruments -designed by the…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Models, English for Special Purposes
Salem, Ashraf Atta M. S. – English Language Teaching, 2018
The current study aims to investigate the impact of using flipped classroom approach on improving functional writing skills of business majors. Also, it aims to enhance some Higher Order Thinking (HOTs) skills including analysis, evaluation, and creation. Additionally, the study may help in eliminating writer's block of the study sample. A…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Writing Skills, Control Groups, Experimental Groups
He, Ping – English Language Teaching, 2018
Relevance Theory from the perspective of cognitive psychology argues that human communication is an ostensive-inferential process, and emphasizes the function of the optimal relevance for communication. In this sense, reading comprehension could be considered as a kind of communication in which the writer manifests his/her communication intention…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Xiaomei, Mai; Quansheng, Mai – English Language Teaching, 2018
This paper intends to examine the efficacy of song education to develop English proficiency in China's EFL context. By conducting a comparative study between two parallel classes and analyzing the results of forty-eight questionnaires, the paper reveals the following: 1) song education can help improve pronunciation and intonation skills to a…
Descriptors: Singing, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Shi, Jing – English Language Teaching, 2017
The pedagogical values of corpora for ELT have been widely acknowledged and exploited, but their direct application in classroom teaching has entailed many difficulties. This project aims to investigate the impact of the pedagogical application of corpora on the vocabulary ability of intermediate-level ESL learners in mainland China. This…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Hassan Al-Ahdal, Arif Ahmed Mohammed; Al-Hattami, Abdulghani Ali; Al-Awaid, Salmeen Abdulrahman Abdullah; Al-Mashaqba, Nisreen Juma'a Hamed – English Language Teaching, 2015
Arabic and English belong to two different linguistic families: resultantly, some Arabic speaking learners of English in both SL and FL situations have a major obstacle to overcome to be intelligible to other users, especially in the international context. Of the various skills one needs to acquire to become "proficient" in a language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Xu, Liju – English Language Teaching, 2018
The purpose of this paper is to explore the effectiveness of vocabulary enhancement activities on vocabulary learning in an ESP course. In designing the activities, technical terms on journal entries were chosen for the acquisition of language necessary for the successful implementation of accounting major's professional tasks. The desirable…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Zhou, Zhen – English Language Teaching, 2018
The critical thinking ability is an indispensable ability of contemporary college students, and the PBL teaching model abandons the shortcomings of traditional teaching methods, which is more suitable for the development trend of university curriculum teaching reform in China. In order to understand the influence of PBL teaching mode on college…
Descriptors: College Students, Teaching Methods, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
Livingston, Sue; Toce, Andi; Casey, Toce; Montoya, Fernando; Hart, Bonny R.; O'Flaherty, Carmela – English Language Teaching, 2018
This study first briefly describes an instructional approach to teaching grammar known as X-Word Grammar and then compares its effectiveness in assisting students in achieving grammatical accuracy with traditionally taught grammar. Two groups of L2 pre-college students were taught using curricula and practice procedures in two different grammar…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Methods, Accuracy, Essays
Harutyunyan, Liliya; Poveda, María Fernanda – English Language Teaching, 2018
Even though there is plenty of published information about the advantages of peer review, little can be found on what the beneficiaries (i.e. the students) feel about this method and what they might expect from it. In this paper, we present an analysis of the perceptions of 44 students at one of the largest universities in Ecuador, who had just…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Peer Evaluation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
AlJaser, Afaf Mohammed – English Language Teaching, 2017
The present study is an attempt to measure the effectiveness of using flipped classroom strategy in academic achievement and self-efficacy among female students of College of Education, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University (PNU), Saudi Arabia. The study adopted the experimental method based on the two experimental and control groups, where…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Self Efficacy
Khodary, Manal Mohamed – English Language Teaching, 2017
This study was carried out to examine the effectiveness of using the Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy Plus (VSSPlus) on developing university EFL students' vocabulary learning. It adopted the quasi experimental design which included two groups design. The participants were first level students at Languages and Translation Department, Arar…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development