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Safari, Mahshad; Koosha, Mansour – English Language Teaching, 2016
Regarding the fundamental role of speaking in language skills, this study intended to investigate the effects of speaking portfolio as an alternative form of assessment for assessing Iranian EFL learners' speaking ability at the intermediate and advanced proficiency levels and also its impact on their attitudes. Accordingly, from the population of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Portfolios (Background Materials)
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Vongkrachang, Salila; Chinwonno, Apasara – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2015
The study aimed to examine the effect of explicit reading instruction as an approach to Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) framework on EFL students' informational text comprehension and engagement. The explicit reading instruction was implemented with 39 first-year Thai undergraduate students over a 10-week period. It was found that the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Instruction
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Cannon, Joanna E.; Fredrick, Laura D.; Easterbrooks, Susan R. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2010
Reading to children improves vocabulary acquisition through incidental exposure, and it is a best practice for parents and teachers of children who can hear. Children who are deaf or hard of hearing are at risk for not learning vocabulary as such. This article describes a procedure for using books read on DVD in American Sign Language with…
Descriptors: Partial Hearing, Deafness, Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development
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Strobl, Carola; Jacobs, Geert – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2011
In this article, we set out to assess QuADEM (Quality Assessment of Digital Educational Material), one of the latest methods for evaluating online language learning courseware. What is special about QuADEM is that the evaluation is based on observing the actual usage of the online courseware and that, from a checklist of 12 different components,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Video Technology, Feedback (Response)