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Download full textLim, Chang Kuan; Eng, Lin Siew; Mohamed, Abdul Rashid; Ismail, Shaik Abdul Malik Mohamed – English Language Teaching, 2018
The purpose of the study is to have a relook at the ESL reading comprehension assessment system for Malaysian Year Five students. Traditionally, the ESL teachers have been assessing and reporting on their primary year's students by merely giving a composite grade with some vague remarks. This process has been used and is still being employed in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Ismail, Shaik Abdul Malik Mohamed; Petras, Yusof Ede; Mohamed, Abdul Rashid; Eng, Lin Siew – English Language Teaching, 2015
This paper aims to gain an insight to the relationship of two different concepts about reading comprehension, namely, the linear model of comprehension and the interactive compensatory theory. Drawing on both the above concepts, a heuristic was constructed about three different reading strategies determined by the specific ways the literal,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Secondary School Students
Rafieyan, Vahid; Sharafi-Nejad, Maryam; Khavari, Zahra; Damavand, Ayoob; Eng, Lin Siew – English Language Teaching, 2014
The distance between language learners' culture and the culture of the target language community is considered to play a crucial role in determining the level of pragmatic comprehension. In this respect, a study was conducted over 30 German students, perceived as culturally close to the British, and 30 South Korean students, perceived as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Rafieyan, Vahid; Sharafi-Nejad, Maryam; Khavari, Zahra; Eng, Lin Siew; Mohamed, Abdul Rashid – English Language Teaching, 2014
Pragmatic comprehension can be ideally developed through contact with target language speakers. This contact can be provided in English as Foreign Language contexts through telecollaboration. To test the actual effect of telecollaboration on the development of pragmatic comprehension, 30 Iranian undergraduates of English as a Foreign Language…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Pragmatics, Language Tests
Rafieyan, Vahid; Majid, Norazman Bin Abdul; Eng, Lin Siew – English Language Teaching, 2013
Familiarity with the cultural features of the target language society and interest in learning those cultural features are the key factors to determine language learners' level of pragmatic comprehension. To investigate this issue, this study attempted to assess the relationship between attitude toward incorporating target language culture into…
Descriptors: Correlation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics
Mohamed, Abdul Rashid; Eng, Lin Siew; Ismail, Shaik Abdul Malik Mohamed – English Language Teaching, 2010
It is imperative that teachers need to assess their learners' reading proficiency. Incidentally, most assessments developed and conducted by teachers merely discriminate who among their learners are performing better than the other. These assessments deplorably provide nothing more than norm reference data. Nonetheless, this is the only…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Tests, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation
