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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"ESL/EFL"”.
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Comparing The Teaching Of Culture In ESL/EFL Classrooms
… in investigating if culture is approached in efl and esl classrooms. If it is, we want to know the differences in curriculum (textbooks and syllabi), especially as it pertains to cultural knowledge, in an efl class in Brazil, compared to an esl class in the united states. We will also …
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Teaching ESL/EFL: The Role of Cultural and Intercultural Knowledge, Skills, and Competence
… skills for interacting in this global society. ESL/EFL teachers, educators, and administrators become key resources for learning and transmitting the knowledge, skills, and strategies for using English in a variety of social, business, or academic interactions. Immigrants, refugees, and …
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The productive and receptive knowledge of collocations by advanced Arabic-speaking ESL/EFL learners
… investigates whether the language environment (ESL or EFL) has an influence on the acquisition of collocations. It also explores whether there is a significant difference between participants' performance on three types of collocations: verb-noun, adjective-noun, and verb-preposition. Data for …
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Creating Theatre-Based Curriculum for use in the ESL/EFL Language Classroom: A Model
<p>Many countries require the study of the English language as part of the standard curriculum in K-12 schools. Unfortunately, many students lack the interest and motivation to learn, despite English’s potential to open future academic and professional doors. This is particularly true for students …
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Impacts of Different Types of Teacher Corrective Feedback in Reducing Grammatical Errors on ESL/EFL Students' Writing
… written 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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Pronunciation Lesson Plans for Korean EFL University Instructors
… lesson plans for instructors who teach Korean ESL/EFL students in English pronunciation part.</p>
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The authenticity of reading materials provided for students in secondary school classrooms in Iceland
… Therefore, authentic reading materials in an ESL classroom could improve the language skills. Some authentic materials could improve vocabulary and prepare students for further academic studies or professional work fields. In this essay I look at the authenticity of reading materials used in …
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Digital Lessons for Enhancing Communicative Skills: A Handbook for Turkish EFL Teachers
… teachers of English working with intermediate ESL/EFL students at university level. The handbook includes two theme-based lessons that emphasize the development of communicative competence with the help of engaging free digital tools. The content of the handbook can be improvised or modified …
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The adaptation of language testing models to national testing of school graduates in Nepal : processes, problems and emerging issues
… it makes a contribution to knowledge about how ESL/EFL language tests may be adapted and applied in order to meet the system-wide needs for EFL testing in developing countries more generally.
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Communication strategies in second language teacher talk with special reference to Iranian teachers of English
… of communication strategies in teacher talk in ESL/EFL classrooms. Communication strategies consist of adjustments made by speakers to the formulation of their talk in order to facilitate communication, and these are clearly a potentially important aspect of teacher talk. Limiting communication …
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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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How grammar matters in NNS academic writing: the relationship between verb tense and aspect usage patterns and L2 writing proficiency in academic discourse
Grammar teaching in ESL/EFL classes has been controversial as it tackles various issues such as the necessity, scope, contents, and methods of teaching grammar. This thesis addresses the significance of teaching grammar in ESL/EFL academic writing courses by restating the question of “whether or …
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Using task-based elicitation to measure effectiveness of counterfactual conditional instruction
… tasks to evaluate the degree to which ESL / EFL learners are able to use counterfactual second conditionals and related grammatical structures to perform certain illocutionary acts. To this end the researcher attempted to create tasks for which the production of the target grammatical …
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Picking up the principles: An applied linguistic analysis of the legal problem genre
… explored with particular reference to tertiary ESL/EFL students.
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Poetry, media, and second language acquisition
… teaching in the American classroom and the ESL/EFL classroom as well as suggestions for future research.
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Conscious Reconstruction: The Effects of Second Language Acquisition on Self-Perception of Gender Identity
… a Second Language/English as a Foreign Language (ESL/EFL) students with the intent to identify difference, if it exists. English Language Learners who are studying abroad or who have immigrated to the United States have already established a gender identity influenced and created by their …
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The Path to Translingual: A History of the Globalization of English in Composition Studies
… linguistically diverse writers, such as ESL, EFL, multilingual, and nonnative, tracing the path to the concept of translingualism currently used by composition scholars. This research responds to Paul Matsuda's argument in "Composition Studies and ESL Writing: A Disciplinary Division of …
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Language learning strategies and tolerance of ambiguity of Korean midshipmen learning English as a foreign language
… Strategy Inventory Language Learning (SILL for ESL/EFL) developed by Oxford (1990a) and the Second Language Tolerance of Ambiguity Scale by Ely (1995) were used, along with items about motivation and attitude toward language learning.It was found that the language learning strategy mean and …
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