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Phoolaikao, Witchuda; Sukying, Apisak – English Language Teaching, 2021
The Common European Framework of Reference for language teaching, learning, and assessment (CEFR) provides a guideline for English teaching aids and curriculum development in language courses. It identifies and describes the specific skills that language learners must acquire to improve their English language proficiency for communication (CoE,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Tartory, Raeda – English Language Teaching, 2020
The study aims to identify the perceptions of university students of Jordan towards the role of internet in learning and improving their understanding of Englishes and English language skills. The study followed a cross-sectional study design and a structured questionnaire was used to collect data from 181 university level students studying in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Internet
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Al Murshidi, Ghadah – English Language Teaching, 2014
The study examined the impact of the conjunction of structured journal writing and reading for pleasure on students' reading and writing skills. Forty male students from UAE University participated in the study. The participants are of different academic abilities, majors and nationalities. Many of them have little experience with reading for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Journal Writing, Recreational Reading, Reading Skills
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Alharthi, Thamer – English Language Teaching, 2014
This two-year longitudinal study tracks the extent of vocabulary attrition among Arabic-speaking English graduate teachers. Data were collected through pre-post tests of receptive and productive vocabulary knowledge. The results showed drastic attrition in vocabulary knowledge soon after the end of formal instruction followed by slight gain,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Skill Attrition, English Teachers, Graduate Study
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Salem, Ashraf Atta Mohamed Safein – English Language Teaching, 2017
The current study investigates whether English language teachers use scaffolding strategies for developing their students' reading comprehension skills or just for assessing their comprehension. It also tries to demonstrate whether teachers are aware of these strategies or they use them as a matter of habit. A questionnaire as well as structured…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Reading Comprehension
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Latha, V. G.; Rajan, Premalatha – English Language Teaching, 2012
This paper aims at focusing how the lack of pragmatic competence affects student's communication in L2 (Second language) at tertiary level. The city based Indian students learn English which is their second language from 3 years onwards whereas the rural based students learn English only from 6 years onwards. This exposure of the L2 shows the…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Language Skills, Second Language Learning, College Students
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Çakir, Abdulvahit; Ünaldi, Ihsan; Arslan, Fadime Yalçin; Kiliç, Mehmet – English Language Teaching, 2016
Within the framework of foreign language teaching and learning, reading strategies, depth of vocabulary knowledge and text inferencing skills have not been researched extensively. This study tries to fill this gap by analyzing the effects of reading strategies used by Turkish EFL learners and their depth of vocabulary knowledge on their text…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Strategies
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Assaly, Ibtihal R.; Smadi, Oqlah M. – English Language Teaching, 2015
This study aimed at evaluating the cognitive levels of the questions following the reading texts of Master Class textbook. A checklist based on Bloom's Taxonomy was the instrument used to categorize the cognitive levels of these questions. The researchers used proper statistics to rank the cognitive levels of the comprehension questions. The…
Descriptors: Taxonomy, Textbook Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Questioning Techniques
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Abdrafikova, Albina R.; Akhmadullina, Rimma M.; Singatullova, Aliya A. – English Language Teaching, 2014
The article deals with regional experience in using modern strategies in teaching gifted children. The value of project and research activity is actualized as one of the most effective educational technologies in work with gifted children. The article shows examples of organization of combined project and research activities of student-teachers…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Teaching Methods, College School Cooperation, College Students
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Hajilou, Y.; Yazdani, H.; Shokrpour, N. – English Language Teaching, 2012
This study aimed to determine the relationship between creativity on one hand and lexical reception and production knowledge of Iranian EFL students on the other hand. The data were collected using three tests: a creativity test (Torrance, 1990), the Vocabulary Levels Test (Schmitt, Schmitt, & Clapham, 2001), and the Productive Version of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creativity, English (Second Language), Lexicology
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Kiomrs, Razavipour; Abdolmehdi, Riazi; Rashidi, Naser – English Language Teaching, 2011
It is by now well established that teacher characteristics play a major role in the way high stakes tests impact education (Alderson and Hamp-Lyons, 1996). What remains an open question, however, is specifying the type of characteristics that have the potential to moderate the backwash effects of tests. This study was designed to isolate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Literacy, Case Studies