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Ozverir, Ildeniz; Osam, Ulker Vanci; Herrington, Jan – Educational Technology & Society, 2017
Achieving communicative competency in English classes has been a key goal in contexts where English is taught as a foreign language (EFL). During this process, however, integrating the difficulty and complexity of real life tasks into classroom teaching has often been disregarded. Lack of opportunities for authentic language use often results in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Kelly, Niamh; Bruen, Jennifer – Language Teaching Research, 2015
A review of the literature on language teaching reveals predominantly negative attitudes towards the use of translation in language teaching (TILT) (Cook, 2010). The purpose of this article is to explore the question of whether this negativity is reflected in the attitudes and behaviours of university lecturers engaged in language teaching as well…
Descriptors: Translation, Second Language Learning, Qualitative Research, Case Studies