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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"EFL teaching"”.
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Peer Mentoring And Professional Development: A Study Of EFL Teaching In The Middle East
… might enhance professional development of EFL teachers and affect student leaming. Research covering 1999 to 2003 developed my intial peer mentoring initiatives of 1997 and 1998.1 adjusted to various professional roles within three settings. I was supervisor of EFL training, from 1997 to …
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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
… 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 differences in the intervention class EFL students’ pre-test and post-test scores measuring verbal communication performance (actual and …
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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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The effectiveness of the application of the playful approach to promote the english language learning during the Second Term of classes (from March to June 2018). Case 7th graders at “Centro Escolar Comunidad 10 de Octubre”, San Marcos, San Salvador
… theoretical background was based on the study of EFL teaching procedures, motivation, implicit and explicit instruction. The results obtained indicated that The Playful Approach play an important role in students’ motivation and guarantee the meaningful learning.
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Assessing the role of Arabic in EFL classes: an activity theory approach
… in the classes of English as a Foreign Language (EFL), by exploring the uses of Arabic during classroom activities that teachers and students engage in. I also look into how such role shapes the attitudes of the stakeholders in the institution where the research took place. While the literature …
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Integrating online cooperative learning into the English as a foreign language writing curriculum: a modelling trial
… made the existing problems in university EFL teaching even worse, such as ‘teacher-centred’ instruction, student’s low learning motivation and low level of class participation. There is a need to develop pedagogies in EFL teaching in China to meet expanding demand and solve the problems. …
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Investigating the Institutional Adoption of Blended Learning in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Courses at Saudi Universities: Challenges and Benefits
… Even though technology is widely used for teaching and learning worldwide, academic institutions in Saudi Arabia still face challenges and dilemmas in integrating technology into their teaching practices. Since the end of the restrictions due to COVID-19, a blended learning (BL) approach …
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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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The Use of Materials for the Teaching of Culture in ELT
… English as a foreign language teachers) when teaching cultural elements through coursebooks which are assigned by their schools/universities, and the materials which they use to deliver these lessons plus the activities that they normally select for their classes. Moreover, teachers’ opinions …
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Computer-aided categorisation and quantification of connectives in English and Arabic (based on newspaper text corpora).
… pedagogical purposes, particularly in improving EFL teaching of writing at the undergraduate level. The study is based on an empirical investigation of the phenomenon of connectivity and, for optimal efficiency, employs computer-aided procedures, particularly those adopted in corpus linguistics, …
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Mediation Tasks in an eTwinning project Impact on the available vocabulary in English as a Foreign Language in Primary Education
… of linguistic mediation tasks and vocabulary teaching and learning in the teaching of English as a foreign language. These tasks have already been integrated and evaluated in the compulsory educational systems of many countries and assessed by several renowned foreign language certification …
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SHRINE A world englishes approach to english language teaching
… Englishes into English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching. Although linguistic research has long recognized the global diversification of English through processes such as language contact, migration, and sociopolitical change, these insights have only partially been translated into practical …
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Developing dialogic interactions : teacher talk in Saudi Arabian secondary schools' English language classes
… investigated the nature of teacher talk in Saudi EFL secondary school classrooms. The study explores how teacher talk assisted or hindered the development of the students’ dialogic skills. By analysing aspects of teacher talk (TT), in particular the role of the F-move in the IRF (initiation, …
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From Narration to Performance: The Study of Identity Development of EFL Students at Bejaia University, Algeria
… ‘learner’s voices’, nor looked at innovative teaching approaches where these two elements of identity and language voices can be enhanced. The lack of innovative teaching/learning methods in the Algerian EFL classrooms may have limited the students’ opportunities to articulate their identities …
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An investigation of ICT policy implementation in an EFL teacher education program in Vietnam
… now expected to make routine use of ICT in their teaching. The Vietnamese government has promulgated ambitious policies aimed at engaging in an increasingly globalised world and promoting the country’s economic development. These policies focus on education, and in particular, the development of …
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Teaching and learning vocabulary through reading at Saudi universities
… able to use the new language effectively. In an EFL context, where opportunities for practising English in daily life may be more limited, one of the main sources of new vocabulary is reading of English texts. Several studies have reported the challenges that Saudi students encounter in learning …
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN CONTEXT: INVESTIGATING IN-SERVICE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS FOR SYRIAN TEACHERS OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE DURING TIMES OF MILITARY CONFLICT
<p>The purpose of this study is to research how teaching practices and in-service professional development of English language teachers’ in Syria have been affected during times of military conflict: what impact English language teachers in Syria perceive the professional development programs they …
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Digital representation for assessment of spoken EFL at university level: A case study in Vietnam
… who are studying English as a Foreign Language (EFL) has mainly been conducted with face-to-face speaking tests. While such tests are undoubtedly interactive and authentic, they have been criticised for subjective scoring, as well as lacking an effective test delivery method and recordings for …
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Monolingual policies in the EFL/bilingual classroom: teachers' perceptions of and beliefs about L1/L2 use.
… attitudes and beliefs of two co-teachers in an EFL/Bilingual classroom at a private bilingual school in Asuncion, Paraguay, by focusing on how the school's language policy influences their practices and responses to students' language use in the classroom. The conceptual framework for this study …
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Perspectives on language teaching from a democratic school in Brazil
… of language teachers on language and language teaching at a democratic school in São Paulo, Brazil. The commentary of the one former English teacher is central to the analysis, complemented by interviews with the Portuguese/Spanish teacher and four other teachers at the school. This study …