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Download full textRahimpour, Massoud; Zakeri, Elham – English Language Teaching, 2011
Recently task-based language teaching has attracted many researchers', testers' and syllabus designers' attention and consequently a lot of studies are carried out in this field. This study was conducted in the task-based realm too. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of teacher's presence on learners' performance in doing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Rahimpour, Massoud; Nariman-Jahan, Roghayyeh – English Language Teaching, 2011
The impetus of the present study was to scrutinize the impact of planning and proficiency on 172 EFL learners' written task performance regarding concept load, fluency, complexity and accuracy. Planning was operationalized at two levels: pretask planning (PTP) and online planning (OLP). Participants of this study were two groups, high and low…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Long, Robert W., III. – English Language Teaching, 2012
Detailed research concerning the issue fluency, specifically relating to pauses, mean length runs, and fluency rates in Japanese EFL learners, is limited. Furthermore, the issue of tracking fluency gains has often been ignored, misunderstood or minimized in EFL educational research. The present study, which is based on six monologues conducted…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Language Fluency, Accuracy, English (Second Language)
Gao, Sixia – English Language Teaching, 2009
Many college English teachers lay emphasis on language meaning instead of language forms in order to satisfy the need of new college English curricular, change the present situation of "dumb-and-deaf English" and improve the students' communicative competence. This approach upgrades the fluency but slows down accuracy, which results in…
Descriptors: College English, English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Form Classes (Languages)
Rahimpour, Massoud; Mehrang, Faezeh – English Language Teaching, 2010
It is argued that tasks with different structures yield different performances in terms of accuracy, fluency and complexity. The present study is thus an attempt to investigate the impact of task structure on second language task performance. Thirty two upper-intermediate Iranian learners of English performed two narrative tasks (Structured vs.…
Descriptors: Oral English, Oral Language, English (Second Language), Accuracy
Bahrani, Taher; Sim, Tam Shu – English Language Teaching, 2011
The present paper focuses on the role of audio/visual mass media news in language learning. In this regard, the two important issues regarding the selection and preparation of TV news for language learning are the content of the news and the linguistic difficulty. Content is described as whether the news is specialized or universal. Universal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Audiovisual Aids, Mass Media
Zhang, Shumei – English Language Teaching, 2009
This paper is a research in the second Language acquisition (SLA) with its focus on the role of input, interaction and output in the development of oral fluency in the EFL context from both a theoretical point of view and a case study. Two instruments were used: tests of oral fluency and face-to-face interviews. The findings showed that non-native…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Oral Language, Language Fluency, English (Second Language)
Behlol, Malik; Kaini, Mohammad Munir – English Language Teaching, 2011
The study was conducted to find out effectiveness of contextual an, structural method of teaching vocabulary in English at secondary level. It was an experimental study in which the pretest posttest design was used. The population of the study was the students of secondary classes studying in Government secondary schools of Rawalpindi District.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Vocabulary Development, Language Processing, Teaching Methods
