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A Tale of Two Mainland Chinese English Learners
This paper reports a biographic enquiry of two tertiary English learners from mainland China and attempts to capture the developmental processes of their language learning approaches. Through sharing their past language learning experiences, two Chinese learners verbalized their struggles in language learning and revealed the deep impact that their learning settings had on their perceptions of self and language learning.
Principles of Instructed Language Learning
We need to look deeply at times into the specific needs of learners in Asia and the Pacific region who we cannot forget are still very much living in local contexts -not only an evidently increasingly global one. That being said, there is much to learn from these studies that can be borrowed and lent across a number of frontiers.
Nursing Pre-professionals’ Medical Terminology Learning Strategies
This study is concerned with the learning of medical terminology by nursing pre-professionals in Taiwan. It aims to investigate the use of learning strategies in relation to medical vocabulary use. The subjects under study included 89 Taiwanese college nursing majors.
A Contrastive Study on Disagreement Strategies for Politeness between American English & Mandarin Chinese
The purpose of this paper is to make a contrastive study of disagreement strategies for politeness between American English and Mandarin Chinese at the private interpersonal level for better EFL/ESL teaching and learning. Five scenarios for disagreement are devised for college students in USA and Chinese mainland to fill in what they would say when they disagree with the higher-status, peers and the lower-status.
Using Contemporary Psychological Perspectives in Re-Understanding Taiwanese EFL Development: Observations and Implications for Tertiary Education
The paper argues that EFL teaching and learning in Taiwan can be enriched by integrating contemporary perspectives in psychology that deal with the areas of psychology of learning and language development to help Taiwanese college students in their study of the English language
Computer Mediated Communication: The Use of CMC to Develop EFL Learners’ Communicative Competence
Moving from the ‘focus on form’ teaching approach such as Grammar Translation and Audiolingualism, recently more language teachers have noticed the failure of form focusing approach in developing learners’ communicative ability in real-life situations and shifted to adopt the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT).
Leadership in EFL: Time for Change?
There continues to be a large discrepancy between what EFL teachers teach in the classroom and what they learn outside of it, which in turn affects our learners’ ability to study English. This paper takes a look at how this problem can be solved by increasing the roles of leaders in the field.
ELT in India: A Brief Historical and Current Overview
ELT in India is vibrant and dynamic today. The context of the whole teaching paradigm has changed totally. This article traces the course of this change, along with the causes and consequences while comparing this with the course of ELT in other contexts where it has always been a first language.
Nouns Illustrating Adjective-Noun Conversion in English
This paper reports a study concerned with finding examples used in ordinary everyday English of nouns derived from adjectives through the word-formation process of conversion. The study involved, in the main, a close examination for common adjective-derived noun headwords of two first-rate learner’s dictionaries…
Jordanian Undergraduate EFL Students’ Errors in the Use of the Indefinite Article
This study is an analysis of compositions written by Jordanian first-, second-, third- and fourth-year university EFL students. It aims at identifying the kinds of errors they make in the use of the indefinite article.
