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Download full textAlshammari, Hammad Ali; Ahmed, Elsayed Abdalla; Shouk, Mukhled Atta Abu – English Language Teaching, 2020
Studying English literature is interrelated to studying English as a foreign language (EFL), and thus incorporating literary texts into EFL learning curricula is important for providing EFL learners with the necessary language skills and emotional growth. However, EFL learners prefer to avoid studying English literature due to several challenges…
Descriptors: English Literature, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Difficulty Level
Alshammari, Hammad – English Language Teaching, 2020
This study identifies potential challenges for learners, teachers, and curriculum designers regarding the recent inclusion of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) in the Saudi education system, according to an in-depth review of previous research. This review focused on issues related to CFL learning, pedagogy, and curriculum. Factors were grouped…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Romero, Yanilis – English Language Teaching, 2020
An investigation was conducted to help weak academic English learners in a public high school in Colombia, as they seemed to be facing a learning specific difficulty called dyslexia. A focus group of ten students from ninth and tenth grade was the beneficiaries of the design, implementation, and assessment of five multisensory activities to help…
Descriptors: Multisensory Learning, Learning Problems, Dyslexia, English (Second Language)
Alharbi, Sultan H. – English Language Teaching, 2017
The principal purpose of this paper is to critically examine and evaluate the efficacy of the principled eclectic approach to teaching English as second/foreign language (ESL/EFL) writing to undergraduate students. The paper illustrates that this new method adapts mainstream writing pedagogies to individual needs of learners of ESL/EFL in order to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
Ghorbanchian, Elahe; Youhanaee, Manijeh; Amirian, Zahra – English Language Teaching, 2019
Cognitive complexity is traditionally used for describing human cognition along a simplicity-complexity axis in tests like TOFEL IBT and GRE where text creation and rhetorical organization are quintessentially important. Accordingly, this study sought to investigate the impact of mentor text modelling on cognitive complexity of academic writing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Rahimpour, Massoud; Mehrang, Faezeh – English Language Teaching, 2010
It is argued that tasks with different structures yield different performances in terms of accuracy, fluency and complexity. The present study is thus an attempt to investigate the impact of task structure on second language task performance. Thirty two upper-intermediate Iranian learners of English performed two narrative tasks (Structured vs.…
Descriptors: Oral English, Oral Language, English (Second Language), Accuracy
