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AL-Garni, Shorouq Ali; Almuhammadi, Anas Hamed – English Language Teaching, 2019
The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of using communicative language teaching (CLT) activities on EFL students' speaking skills at the English Language Institute (ELI) of the University of Jeddah (UJ). The researcher conducted the current study in two classes of 21 female EFL students each; one class was the experimental group…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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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)
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Abu-Snoubar, Tamador Khalaf – English Language Teaching, 2017
This quantitative study aimed to investigate and compare the use of metacognitive reading Strategies among English as a foreign language students at Al-Balqa Applied University based on their academic field of study. The Survey of Reading Strategies (SORS) (Mokhtari & Sheory, 2002) was the instrument employed. This survey divides the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Instruction
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Naseeb, Maha Zouhair; Ibrahim, Majid Abdulatif – English Language Teaching, 2017
This study aims at investigating the difficulties encountered by public school students in Amman/ Jordan. The study raises the following questions: What are the obstacles that students may encounter in relation to the derivations? What are the causes of such obstacles? To achieve the aims of the study, the researchers manipulate two methods: A…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Morphology (Languages), Suffixes, Public Schools
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Rojas-Barreto, Lisseth S.; Artunduaga-Cuellar, Marco T. – English Language Teaching, 2018
This article is the product of a diagnostic research study conducted by two professors from the APRENAP research group at Universidad Surcolombiana from Neiva, Huila, Colombia. The study aimed at looking into the causes for the English courses repetition phenomenon which was evident among many students especially in the advanced semesters at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, College Faculty
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Khosravani, Mahboobeh; Khosravani, Mahmood; Khorashadyzadeh, Abbas – English Language Teaching, 2014
Education is not an end, but a means to an end. The ultimate goal of education is to prepare students for their future life. Regarding this fact, English language classes and textbooks can be used as tools for improving learners' life skills. Meanwhile, informative textbooks with rich socio-cultural constructs that foster learners' life skills are…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Textbooks, Questionnaires
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Kang, Che Chang – English Language Teaching, 2014
The study aimed at investigating TOEIC score distribution patterns and learner satisfaction in an intensive TOEIC course and drew implications for pedagogical practice. A one-group pre-test post-test experiment and a survey on learner satisfaction were conducted on Taiwanese college EFL students (n = 50) in a case study. Results showed that the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Chien, Chin-Wen – English Language Teaching, 2014
Under task-based language teaching (TBLT), language learners engage in purposeful, problem-oriented, and outcome-driven tasks that are comparable to real-world activities. This qualitative case study discusses the integration of a task-based approach into a TESOL course in a language teacher education program in Taiwan with regard to 39…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Teacher Education Programs, Task Analysis
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Panahi, Ali – English Language Teaching, 2012
In most settings, task-based language teaching and testing have been dissociated from each other. That is why this study came to rethink of the learners' views towards awareness and implementation of task-based language teaching through IELTS listening tasks. To these objectives, after sketching instrumentation, the learners were divided into…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Testing Problems
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Davari, Hossein; Iranmehr, Abutaleb; Erfani, Seyyed Mahdi – English Language Teaching, 2012
Critical pedagogy (CP) as one of the most radical changes in English language teaching (ELT) has turned into a common theme of research and discussion in recent years. Despite its practical implications, however, most of the research on this issue has been limited to its theoretical and conceptual dimensions. Conceiving the importance of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Theory, Community Attitudes, Mixed Methods Research