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Zhang, Ying – English Language Teaching, 2018
This study explores the change of EFL learners' level of self-efficacy in process-genre academic writing instruction. The teaching experiment was conducted for 14 weeks. A total of 59 graduate students participated in the experiment. Before the experiment, the results showed that the general level of EFL graduates' self-efficacy in academic…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Self Efficacy, Foreign Countries, Academic Discourse
Saengboon, Saksit – English Language Teaching, 2017
This study aimed at investigating English grammar knowledge of a group of Thai university students. The three main research questions revolved around their knowledge of English grammar, the kinds of difficulties they had encountered in using the grammar as well as their perceptions of the roles of grammar in using English. The participants were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Muthusamy, Paramasivam; Farashaiyan, Atieh – English Language Teaching, 2016
The present study attempted to describe the request, apology, and request mitigation strategies utilized by international postgraduate students in confronting different situations. In addition, it examined the effects of the situational factors of social distance, power, and imposition on the students' choice of request and apology strategies as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Speech Acts
Farashaiyan, Atieh; Muthusamy, Paramasivam – English Language Teaching, 2016
The present study attempted to describe the giving advice strategies utilized by Malaysian postgraduate students in confronting different situations. In addition, it examined the effects of the situational factors of social distance, power, and imposition on the students' choice of giving advice strategies. Another objective was to categorize the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Ghoneim, Nahed Mohammed Mahmoud; Elghotmy, Heba Elsayed Abdelsalam – English Language Teaching, 2016
Knowledge Investment is a new and unique concept. Converting the output of scientific research into reality requires a promising start-up. Knowledge economy should be given the priority it deserves and be considered one of the strategic objectives of the development plans in Egypt. With English increasingly being positioned as the pre-eminent…
Descriptors: Knowledge Economy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Hussin, Supyan; Abdullah, Mohamad Yahya; Ismail, Noriah; Yoke, Soo Kum – English Language Teaching, 2015
This study investigates the effects of the CMC applications on the ESL/EFL writing anxiety. This is a descriptive study using a mixed-method that adopted both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Three instruments were employed to answer the research questions of the current study which are Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (SLWAI),…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Ahmadi, Parviz; Samad, Arshad Abd. – English Language Teaching, 2015
Oral academic discourse socialization refers to a process through which students learn about the conventions and practices of their disciplinary fields while doing academic spoken practices. In this study, it refers to the interactions of the participant teachers with their peers and instructors as well as their engagement with academic texts.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Education
Hassanzadeh, Vahideh; Gholami, Reza; Allahyar, Negah; Noordin, Nooreen – English Language Teaching, 2012
Nowadays technology has practically changed every aspect of language teaching. There are numerous studies focusing on the personality traits of students or other internet users towards the internet utilization. Nonetheless, little research has examined the personality traits of teachers towards using computers for educational purposes especially…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, Personality Traits, Graduate Students
Xu, Jianping – English Language Teaching, 2009
This thesis reports a survey study of the autonomous L2 learning by 100 first-year non-English-major Chinese post-graduates via the instruments of a questionnaire and semi-structured interview after the questionnaire. It attends to address the following research question: To what extent do Chinese postgraduate students conduct autonomous L2…
Descriptors: Independent Study, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Graduate Students