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Owais, Amjad; Al-Abidi, Suzan; Taani, Osama – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
This study was conducted to investigate the impact of the grammar translation method (GTM) as a strategy to achieve the educational objective of teaching English manner adverbs to Arab students. This study compares specific parts of speech in both languages. A pre-test of five sentences with adjectives to be changed into manner adverbs in English…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Sakurai, Nobuko – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2015
This study attempted to examine the influence of a decrease in translation on the number of words read, reading comprehension, and reading rate in an extensive reading (ER) program. The participants were 70 first-year university students who experienced ER both in and outside the classroom for 15 weeks. The results of regression analyses confirmed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Programs, Translation, Reading Rate
Lin, Li Li – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The problem: The purpose of this study was to examine the perspectives of both teachers and students toward the CL (Cooperative Learning) Jigsaw technique as an instructional approach within university level English learning in Taiwan. Method: A qualitative descriptive approach was utilized to discover and interpret the elements of both…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Cooperative Learning, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries
Xu, Huaxin – 1993
The question in English-As-Second-Language (ESL) classrooms is not whether a teaching method is good or not, but whether the teacher knows how, for what purpose, for what kind of students, and in what language situation a particular method is used to enhance learning effectively. In teaching English to Chinese students at Xi'an Foreign Language…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Chinese, Classroom Techniques, College Freshmen