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Taladngoen, Unaree; Pratumtone, Kannika; Thong-ngamkham, Tonghathai; Palawatwichai, Naruporn; Rakprang, Kwankamon; Thapkrathok, Maypreeya – THAITESOL Journal, 2023
Needs analysis is a critical step to undertake when executing the design and development of a course. This quantitative research aimed to investigate the engineering students' reasons for taking the TOEIC Listening and Reading Test and their needs for English language preparation for taking the test. The participants were 83 voluntary and…
Descriptors: Test Preparation, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Tests
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Lin, Yen-Yu – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2023
This study examined the effectiveness of guided data-driven learning (DDL) activities on helping technological university students with a lower-intermediate proficiency level to learn grammar and vocabulary topics for the TOEIC test. The question of whether inductive learners make more progress than deductive learners was also addressed. A total…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Tran, Tran Thien Quynh; Admiraal, Wilfried; Saab, Nadira – Intercultural Education, 2019
In this internationalised world, graduate employability in terms of intercultural communication skills needs to be taken into account in higher education. The present study aims to explore the effects of critical incident task instruction on English non-majored undergraduates' intercultural competence. One group of students received ten weeks of…
Descriptors: Critical Incidents Method, Educational Practices, Nonmajors, Intercultural Communication
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Cahyaningati, Desi Tri; Lestari, Lies Amin – International Journal of Language Education, 2018
It is believed that the students' low reading proficiency, as shown in their TOEIC scores, is due to their poor reading habit. One of the ways to overcome such a problem is by facilitating them with a lot of reading practices in an extensive reading program. Since today non-printed multimodal texts (NPMT) and Linear texts (LT) are available in the…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Reading Skills, Reading Tests, Reading Habits
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Hagley, Eric – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2017
Extensive graded reading (EGR) was carried out with a cohort of 600 engineering students in a university in northern Japan. Pre-and post-surveys were conducted to discover changes in the general reading habits of students, their attitudes toward the assessment method and how goals changed over the course of study. The first survey was carried out…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Engineering Education, Reading Instruction
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Thomson, Haidee – TESL Canada Journal, 2017
Previous research has shown a link between speaking fluently and using multiword expressions. However, evidence on how to effectively teach multiword expressions is limited. This study investigates the effect of fluency-oriented classroom teaching on speaking fluency, with special attention to multiword expressions. In this quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction