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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"EFL learning"”.
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An exploration of virtual reality to facilitate authentic tasks in EFL learning in a Vietnamese tertiary setting
… remains low due to the lack of an authentic learning environment inside and outside the classroom despite significant and ongoing national investment. A suggested solution to this issue is the synergy of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) and virtual reality (VR) mobile technology to create …
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Meaning negotiation through task-based synchronous computer-mediated-communication (SCMC) in EFL learning in China – A case study
… facilitative role of meaning negotiation in L2 learning is that it provides comprehensible input, and elicits corrective feedback, helps learners to produce comprehensible output, and has the potential to draw learners’ attention to non-target-like aspects of language output. However, …
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Shyness and EFL learning in Taiwan : a study of shy and non-shy college students' use of strategies, foreign language anxiety, motivation, and willingness to communicate
… examined the interrelationship among shyness, L2 learning strategy use, L2 learning motivation, foreign language anxiety, and willingness to communicate. Participants were 364 students enrolled in either Freshman English or Sophomore English courses in a private university in Taipei. They were …
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A Triangulated Accounting of Top Notch 2: Negotiating Ideologies in the Multimodal Discourse of an EFL Textbook in Korean University Classrooms
… culture and in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) education in Korean universities, that culture pressures consumers to use generic publications for reasons more political than pedagogical. Critical studies of EFL textbooks in global and Korean contexts reveal they harbor certain social …
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The Effects of Immersive Virtual Environments on Motivation, Oral Communication, and Instructional Strategy in EFL Classrooms
… experiences for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. This thesis reviewed 12 empirical studies, 3 previous literature reviews, 3 non-empirical journal articles, and 23 additional background sources investigating the impact of Immersive Virtual Environments (IVE) on EFL learners’ …
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Mapping multilingual ecology: Exploring sociocultural aspects of learners’ investment in EFL in Pakistan
… research often explores issues around English learning outcomes in terms of social constructs like socioeconomic class, gender, and ethnicity, or macro factors like language policy failure and parallel school systems in Pakistan. This study argues that, complementary to these factors, a focus …
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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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AN APPLICATION OF THE COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING (CLT) APPROACH FOR ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (EFL) LEARNERS IN THE ARAB CONTEXT
EFL textbooks in countries of the Arab region have introduced the communicative language teaching (CLT) approach as a way to improve learners English fluency. However, Arab EFL teachers face many challenges in implementing this approach. This study was conducted to provide a possible sample of a …
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Exploring the Assessment Aspect of Differentiated Instruction: College EFL Learners' Perspectives on Tiered Performance Tasks
… instruction in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) environment, this case study explored Taiwanese college students’ perspectives on tiered performance tasks and educational implications of the perspectives with regard to EFL learning and teaching at the tertiary level. Grounded in the …
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Aspects of the learner's dictionary with special reference to advanced Pakistani learners of English
… of lexis in comparison with the other aspects in EFL learning and spells out the aim of this study. Chapter two provides an analytical survey of the various types of research undertaken in different contexts of the dictionary and explains the eclectic approach adopted in the present work. Chapter …
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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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Exploring Imagined Identities and EFL Investment Among Muslim Adolescents: An Arts-Based Research in Indonesian Islamic Boarding Schools
… possibilities does English as a foreign language learning offer to learners outside the Anglophone world? The majority of research has featured studies on language learners’ identities and investment in predominantly sociocultural contexts in the Global North. Nghia (2020) and Wu (2017) have …
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Towards ‘Skill’ and ‘Will’: Using Hope-infused Strategy Instruction in the English Writing Classroom at Chinese Universities
While English learning has been compulsory in higher education in China, there is no precise guidance for teachers to consider how to make constructive links to students’ knowledge of vocabulary, grammar, culturally mediated pragmatics, and so on in English writing. Very few Chinese teachers have …