This research investigates whether a flipped classroom with Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach can lead students to increased gains in speaking skills within an undergraduate English class at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. This was designed to utilize pre-class online videos to replace live "chalk and talk"…

By centralizing the issue of test fairness in language proficiency assessments, this study responds to a call by researchers for developing greater social responsibility in the language testing agenda. As inquiries into language attitude and psychology indicate, there is an underlying uncertainty pertaining to the validity of test use and score…

Describes how the difficulty of German has been exaggerated and discusses certain supposed problems facing English speakers in the mastering of German vocabulary. The idea that technical vocabulary of native German origin presents a serious obstacle to native English speakers arises from an erroneous view of German as a "pure" Germanic…