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Discovery of future-selves as TESOL professionals: Exploring the Identity Formation of Nonnative Preservice Teachers
The present study explored the process through which nonnative TESOL students construct their professional identities and discover their future professional-selves. In particular, this study found nonnative tutors (NNSTs) to have a significant influence upon the social circumstances of nonnative students (NNSSs).
Use of Oral English: A Case Study on Students of VIT University
The eminence of the English language in the globalised world is indubitable. It is now the most widely learned second language in the world and is increasingly being perceived as a basic skill. Communication and language skills are non-negotiable requirements of the industry.
Let’s Teach English
It is traditionally believed that girls have better soft skills. Interpersonal relationship is an area of soft skill where listening skill plays a major role. This study was conducted in a rural Indian school where most of the students hail from villages around Gudiyattam, 30 kilometres from Vellore, India.
Do Boys Listen Better Than Girls? A Brief Experiment
It is traditionally believed that girls have better soft skills. Interpersonal relationship is an area of soft skill where listening skill plays a major role. This study was conducted in a rural Indian school where most of the students hail from villages around Gudiyattam, 30 kilometres from Vellore, India.
Career Goals and L2 Motivation:An Investigation of Chinese College English Major’s L2 Motivational Drives
This dissertation focuses on Chinese college English majors’ language learning motives from a Career Goals perspective. To realise this, the most prominent motives which have been found to influence Chinese college students in their English language learning endeavours are assessed and compared in relation to the Career Goals motive. In addition, the effect that different year groups attribute to the prominence of this motive is also considered.
An in-service programme in Hong Kong for integrating language and content at the post-secondary level
Hong Kong’s special status as a former British colony and now a globally competitive Chinese special administrative region (SAR) where “English continues to be the default medium of written communication in the workplace” (Santandreu et al., 2009, p. 1452)…
Academic English and content development thorough ethnographic research projects
The following curriculum context article describes a recently introduced academic English project-based learning (PBL) course designed to help prepare Japanese students for English content undergraduate courses at an international university in Japan.
Doing CLIL in Abu Dhabi
This article briefly describes the current situation regarding CLIL in local primary schools and how CLIL is addressed in the curriculum of a new teacher training college in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
English for law at the University of Malaya
A common complaint among Malaysian employers is the lack of English proficiencyand communication skills among graduates (Pillai et al., 2012). The same finding was also reported by the Malaysian Bar Council based on a survey of a group of law graduates, chambering…
Development of academic competencies as the learning objectives of an English-medicine integrated common-core module
A common-core module intended to bridge the general English course and medical English course in an EFL context was developed by specifying medical students’ academic competencies in communicative skills, critical thinking and information management as the core…
