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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"EFL context"”.
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Investigating focus constructions in an EFL context : a usage-based approach
… the acquisition of these constructions in an EFL contexts, as these focus constructions are not very much used in oral and written forms in English (Biber et.al, 1999). One of the objectives of this study was to find out whether Saudi L2 users are aware of the appropriate contextual use of …
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Curriculum Deliberation by Experienced EFL Teachers (A Case Study in the Indonesian College EFL Context)
… the processes of English as a foreign language (EFL) curriculum deliberation as carried out by six experienced EFL teachers in the Indonesian college EFL context. In particular, the study examined how these teachers defined curricular problems within this EFL context, how they addressed the …
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The use of a mobile instant messaging (MIM) application for English interaction in the Korean EFL context
… their learning of English as a foreign language (EFL). However, there has been little empirical research on how students interact with each other and negotiate meanings using the mobile instant messaging applications on their smartphones. This study aimed to explore the feasibility of using the …
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The Impact of Students’ Future Imagined Identities on Their English Language Learning in an EFL Context: The Case of English for Law
… on their English language learning. The context for the present research project is an English for Law module offered to Postgraduate students of law in Algeria where I had an experience as an English tutor. The study employed an action research approach in three phases: Planning, Acting …
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Learners' perceptions of language proficiency, language test-taking strategies and emotional regulation in a test-taking context: a case study in an Egyptian EFL context
This study investigated adult EFL learners' perceptions of English language proficiency, identified their test-taking strategies and emotional regulation processes during test-taking and explored the relationship between test-takers' reported use of test-taking strategies and emotional regulation …
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A computer-aided error analysis of Saudi students’ written English and an evaluation of the efficacy of using the data- driven learning approach to teach collocations and lexical phrases
… three corpus-based studies in a Saudi university context. The first study is a computer-aided error analysis (CEA) of a corpus of Saudi English majors’ writing. The second and third studies employ the DDL approach to teach collocations and lexical phrases. The errors in the Saudi learner corpus …
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Critical thinking in a Vietnamese tertiary English as a foreign language context : current practices and prospects
… practices in the relatively under-researched context of Vietnamese tertiary English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms. Drawing on Bloom’s (1956) taxonomy and Barnett’s (1997) domains of criticality, critical thinking is defined in this study as the capacity for students to use their …
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Korean English teachers' perceptions about teaching English through English (TETE)
… is not completely congruent with the Korean EFL context because of a number of contextual factors. The results suggest that TETE should entail primary changes directly related to classroom innovation and corresponding secondary changes to support the primary innovation. Thus, this study …
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Alternative Assessments and English Language Enhancement: Perspectives of Saudi EFL Undergraduate Students
… assessments in English as a foreign language (EFL) classes in Saudi Arabia. While alternative assessments have been recently recognized as a prospective approach to assessing EFL learning, little research has examined how language learners perceive this approach to assessment in an EFL context, …
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Differences in written language between Japanese EFL learners with different proficiency: From Systemic Functional Linguistic perspectives
… strategies in writing between Japanese EFL learners of different proficiency levels. By adopting Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) as its theoretical framework, the thesis also aims to explore the potential of SFL to clarify what linguistic resources learners have learned and have yet …
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Collaboration in Language Testing: Investigating the Validity of a New Rating Procedure for EFL Writing Assessment in Korea
… as a complementary rater, specifically in the EFL context. The study has three research goals: (1) to investigate the psychometric reliability of self- and peer-ratings in a second language (L2) essay-writing test in Korea, (2) to explore students' rating process, and (3) to understand …
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Situated Language Learning Practices in an EFL Reading Class: Case Studies of Six College Students
… and the use of reading strategies of six EFL college students in Thailand through the lenses of sociocultural and cognitive frameworks. With the overarching purpose to promote successful learning, the investigation examined and documented how the students' language learning development had …
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Teaching EFL in Thailand : a bilingual study
… are located in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts such as Thailand, but related academia, teacher training and textbooks remain for the most part located in English-speaking countries of the Centre. Key assumptions of the latter have been that students wish to enter into the target …
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Technology-based Intervention in L2 Reading Comprehension: Toward Digital Scaffolding
… been tested in an English as a Foreign language (EFL) context and their impacts assessed. Two digital scaffolding interventions were examined including contextual conversation (COC) and adjunct questions (AJQ). A total of 172 EFL students read two reading passages in three different conditions: …
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Using Songs to Enhance Language Learning and Skills in the Cypriot Primary EFL Classroom
Although the role of songs in the primary EFL classroom has attracted the interest of a number of researchers (Newham 1995; McMullen and Saffran 2004; Millington 2011), given the frequency with which songs are being used in English language teaching classrooms, it might have been expected that …
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Small-group Student Talk Before Individual Writing in Chinese Tertiary English-as-a-foreign-language Writing Classrooms: Nature, Effects, and Perceptions
… phases and implemented in the Chinese tertiary EFL context. The phase-one multiple case study investigated the nature of small-group student talk and revealed six categories of student talk: content talk, language talk, organization talk, task-management talk, affective talk, and phatic talk. …
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The Impact of Genre-Informed Persuasive Writing in the Chinese Tertiary Classroom
… writing of English as a foreign language (EFL) in China. To ensure the inference validity from the outcomes of the genre teaching, three interrelated studies were conducted. Study 1 was to validate whether the genre-specific rubric, Assessment Tools for Teaching and Learning (asTTle) …
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Gender based variation in employing suggestion strategies by Iraqi EFL learners
… its mere structure, suggestions are crucial to EFL learners to master to communicate their ideas. Since the inception of the speech act theory, scholars have reported incomplete or impolite use of different speech acts, including suggestions from different regional contexts. These ill-mannered …
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Listening Instruction and Teacher Cognition Underpinning the Skill in Iranian Private English Institutes
… conducted in English as a Second Language (ESL) contexts where listening practice opportunities are readily available outside the classroom. This study therefore aims to explore how teachers undertake listening instruction and the cognitions underpinning their practices through an investigation …
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