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Bocanegra Bonilla, Carolina; Ramirez Valencia, Astrid – English Language Teaching, 2018
By employing an action research framework, this study was designed to explore the effectiveness of a set of speaking activities centered on a children's cartoon to improve oral performance in the EFL classroom. The participants were fourth graders of a public school in Colombia, who had low oral performance in spoken English language. The findings…
Descriptors: Oral Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Thakur, Vijay Singh – English Language Teaching, 2015
For many students learning English as a second/foreign language is an uninteresting, dull experience. Quite often teachers present words, sentence patterns, and grammar rules in a very mechanical manner. As a result, people come to think of the teaching of grammar and vocabulary as a monotonous job. But a resourceful, imaginative and creative…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Basal, Ahmet; Aytan, Talat; Demir, Ibrahim – English Language Teaching, 2016
Mastery of idiomatic expressions by foreign language learners is often equated with the fluency of native speakers of that language. However, learning these idiomatic expressions is one of the significant problems experienced by learners. The present quasi-experimental study conducted over four weeks in the ELT department of a Turkish university…
Descriptors: Novels, Cartoons, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development
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Rohani, Gholamreza; Ketabi, Saeed; Tavakoli, Mansoor – English Language Teaching, 2012
The present study investigated the effect of context on the strategies the EFL learners utilized to process idioms. To do so, ten Iranian intermediate EFL learners were randomly assigned to two groups who then attended a think-aloud session. The 5 subjects in the first group were exposed to an animated cartoon including 23 unfamiliar idioms while…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Language Processing, Figurative Language, Cartoons