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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"EFL Students"”.
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Developing a Learning Identity: A Narrative Study of Algerian Women EFL Students
… to understand how English as a foreign language (EFL) learners develop their learning identities. While there has been interest on second language (L2) Self in immigrant contexts, not much has been investigated in EFL contexts. This research is conducted with a group of ten women who are second …
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An investigation on peer feedback for EFL students ages 10 to 14 /
… purpose of this study was to leam more about how EFL (English as Foreign Language) students interacted during peer feedback conferences. Thirty EFL students from Mexico aged 10 to 14 years old participated in this study. The following four main questions were addressed: 1 . What criteria did the …
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Innovative Techniques for Inspiring EFL Students' Enthusiasm and Participating in English Classroom Activities
… became a compulsory subject for Taiwanese students in 2005 (Lu, 2011). The Taiwan Ministry of Education (MOE) is promoting communicative language teaching (CLT) and encouraging learners to develop and increased desire to improve their language skills. However, many Taiwanese English as …
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Russian University EFL Students’ Perceptions of a Two-Week Online Academic Writing Course
<p>This case study analyzes Russian university EFL students’ perceptions of a two-week online academic writing course. The researcher investigated 13 students’ attitudes towards an online academic English writing class offered at Kursk State University, Kursk’s oldest higher education institution, …
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Digital storytelling as an astronomy disciplinary literacy enhancement approach for adolescent Kyrgyzstani EFL students
… intervention in an astronomy course (STEM-A) on EFL students’ STEM-A disciplinary literacy acquisition in English. The research was motivated by the increased significance of English as an international language of STEM instruction and addressed the transition between discourses encountered by …
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Strategies to Reduce Foreign Language Anxiety in Adult EFL Students of the European Union
… learn English for job security or advancement. EFL teachers can use the strategies in this project to mitigate the tension and psychological stress caused by FLA and increase the levels of motivation, commitment and enjoyment their adult students experience when learning English.</p>
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A curriculum proposal for elementary EFL students in a bilingual-immersion school in Brazil
This paper is a curriculum proposal for students from grades 2 – 5 at the Elementary level in a bilingual-immersion school in Brasilia, Brazil, who are enrolled in the English Adaptation (EA) program. The curriculum is based on the SIOP Model, an approach to teaching language through content in …
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Enhancing Oral Communications for Korean English-as-a-Foreign Language (EFL) Students in Business Settings
This project is intended to help adult EFL students in Korea familiarize themselves with the sounds of words and expressions that are used in everyday conversation, especially in business settings or workplaces. <p>This project, with help of technology, focuses on customizing learnings and …
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Multidimensional predictors of English language proficiency: MSEM analysis in Saudi EFL students in higher education
Grounded in Self-Determination Theory and the PERMA well-being framework, this multilevel study surveyed 3,980 Saudi English-major undergraduates nested within 185 professors and 91 academic advisors to examine how student characteristics, professors’ need-supportive teaching (NST), and advisors’ …
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A Positive Psychology Perspective on Chinese EFL Students’ Well-Being, Language Mindset, and English Performance
… and CET 4 times). A quantitative study among EFL students (<em>n</em> = 1,030) was conducted to answer the research questions. Specifically, Spearman correlations were used to explore the relationship between well-being levels, GLM, and CET 4 scores. The Mann-Whitney U test and the …
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From Narration to Performance: The Study of Identity Development of EFL Students at Bejaia University, Algeria
… skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing), students’ motivation, autonomous learning, and anxiety. However, no research has tackled the issues of ‘learner identity’, ‘learner’s voices’, nor looked at innovative teaching approaches where these two elements of identity and language voices can …
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Evaluating EFL students’ reading comprehension skills with reference to the Department of English at Zawia University, Libya
… the main challenges that faced Libyan students in reading comprehension within the English language programme at Zawia University, Libya, through the perceptions of lecturers and students at the Department of English. This study also evaluated the current teaching practices of reading …
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Social Media Use: A Critical Analysis of Facebook's Impact on Collegiate EFL Students' English Writing in Thailand
… impacts the type (formal or informal) of English EFL students use for in-class writing or not, as well as to understand the students’ perceptions on how the use of Facebook helps to facilitate or inhibit their English writing skills.</p> <p>The study was conducted by using qualitative research …
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Impacts of Different Types of Teacher Corrective Feedback in Reducing Grammatical Errors on ESL/EFL Students' Writing
… corrective feedback on first semester ESL/EFL students’ writing accuracy and writing quality. Four feedback strategies (indirect feedback, direct feedback, indirect feedback followed by direct feedback with explicit corrective comments, and no feedback) were employed in this study. One …
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EFL students' English language knowledge, strategy use and multiple-choice reading test performance: a structural equation modeling approach
… as a university entrance examination for students in their final year of senior high. This reading subtest consists of a multiple-choice format. Studies on language assessment, L2 reading and L1-L2 reading have suggested that EFL students’ performance on multiple-choice reading …
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An investigation into the relationship between the educational context and the written product of university EFL students with implications for the teaching of writing
… and the product of writing across a four year EFL writing course. Findings suggest that the writing problems that students face are inherent in the writing pedagogy in current practice at the University. Most studies in ESL/EFL writing have looked at the final product in isolation from the …
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Developing EFL students' communicative skills through content-based instruction: A case study of EFL teaching in an undergraduate degree program at a tertiary institution in Indonesia
… skills and motivation of a group of students at a tertiary education in Indonesia. The following research questions guided this study: (a) What are the attitudes of some EFL students of non-English departments towards current EFL teaching in the tertiary context? (b) Are there any …
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Developing EFL Reading Fluency in Upper Elementary Schools in China
<p>This project aims to help EFL educators and EFL teachers realize the importance of developing EFL students’ reading fluency, and more importantly, to provide specific curriculum for upper elementary school EFL students to improve their reading fluency. The most important intervention being used …
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Content-Based Instruction and Corpus Linguistics Curriculum for Early Advanced EFL Saudi Students
<p>For many years now EFL teaching and learning in Saudi Arabia has suffered from a lack of authentic life-related and meaningful materials. Most of the EFL books available, therefore, pay more attention to form and less attention to meaning. This has resulted in many Saudi EFL students having …
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