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Download full textGamage, Sandamali – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
The present study seeks to find the students' performance towards the assigned tasks related to cartoons and their perceptions towards the use of it as an authentic, supplementary teaching tool to facilitate the process of speaking. A sample of thirty-five students was selected to involve in different tasks related to selected number of cartoons.…
Descriptors: Cartoons, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Isyaku, Hassan; Yuepeng, Ma; Mahdi, Qusay; Sarhan, Gassan; Salih, Nahid; Paramasivan, Shamala – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The research investigated the thanking/gratitude strategies of three distinct cultures; Hausa, Chinese and Arabic languages with the aim of finding out the different strategies used by them and how different they are in their use of such strategies. The study employs Cheng (2005) Taxonomy of gratitude strategies in analyzing the data which was…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Pragmatics, African Culture, African Languages
Otair, Ibrahim; Aziz, Noor Hashima Abd – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
Anxiety is an important factor in foreign language learning. Very few studies have been done on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Saudi students in listening classes. Therefore, this pilot study was aimed at exploring the causes of listening comprehension anxiety from EFL Saudi learners' perspectives at Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia. The…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Second Language Learning, Semi Structured Interviews, English (Second Language)
The Effect of Task Repetition on Fluency and Accuracy of EFL Saudi Female Learners' Oral Performance
Gashan, Amani K.; Almohaisen, Fahad M. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This study aimed to examine the effect of task repetition on foreign language output. Twenty eight Saudi female students in the Preparatory Year (PY) at King Saud university, were randomly selected to conduct an oral information-gap task. The participants were asked to perform the task two times with two-week interval between the two performances.…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Mohammadipour, Mohammad; Rashid, Sabariah Md. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
Adopting a direct approach to contrive sufficient focus on form (accuracy) would facilitate interlanguage development without decreasing the naturalness of communication that communicative tasks can generate. This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of a proposed task-based instruction programme within a cognitive approach in fostering…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Task Analysis
