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Download full textLiu, Xiaokai – English Language Teaching, 2018
Writing as one of essential skills in English learning is attached more and more importance. English writing involves not only the application of lexicon and grammar, but also the construction of the text and the expression of the thought. For Chinese EFL learners, the common problem in English writing is that they tend to apply the Chinese…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Zhang, Min – English Language Teaching, 2014
Cross-cultural communicative ability is an important ability that college students should have in modern society. A successful cross-cultural communication is based on several factors. The basic one is the understanding of the target language culture. In order to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings it is necessary for college students to know…
Descriptors: Nonmajors, English (Second Language), College Students, Asian Culture
Wei, Yuehong; Zhang, Li – English Language Teaching, 2013
With the development of society, oral English teaching and learning has been the top in English teaching and learning in china. This paper reports a survey conducted at North China Electric Power University on the barriers for learners of oral English learning in China. Questionnaires with both close-ended and open-ended questions were distributed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Oral English, College Students
Ahmad, Ismail Sheikh; Al-Shboul, Murad M.; Nordin, Mohamad Sahari; Rahman, Zainurin Abdul; Burhan, Mohd; Madarsha, Kamal Basha – English Language Teaching, 2013
The last decade has witnessed an increasing research trend on foreign language reading anxiety as a skill related to but distinct from foreign language anxiety. However, sources of foreign language reading anxiety have rarely been investigated. Thus, the current study responds to the study by (Saito, Horwitz, & Garza, 1999) and extends the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Reading Comprehension, Sampling
Shams, Rabe'a; Afghari, Akbar – English Language Teaching, 2011
This study investigates the comprehension of indirect request speech act used by Iranian people in daily communication. The study is an attempt to find out whether different cultural backgrounds and the gender of the speakers affect the comprehension of the indirect request of speech act. The sample includes thirty males and females in Gachsaran…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication, Speech Acts, Cultural Influences
Alemi, Minoo; Sadehvandi, Nikan – English Language Teaching, 2012
The present paper is an attempt to evaluate "Pacesetter" Series (Strange and Hall, 2005), an EFL course book series, in four levels of "starter", "elementary", "pre-intermediate", and "intermediate", being currently instructed at several language institutes in Iran. The purpose of this study is to…
Descriptors: Textbook Evaluation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Niroomand, Masoumeh – English Language Teaching, 2012
The present study was designed to examine the ways power relations influence politeness strategies in disagreement. The study was an attempt to find out whether different power status of people influences the the choice of appropriate politeness strategies and speech act of disagreement by Iranian EFL learners, in a university setting. A Discourse…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Power Structure, Language Proficiency
