RSSVolume 12 Issue 4

Our Languages Clicked: Shakespeare in EFL Classes

Our Languages Clicked: Shakespeare in EFL Classes

| December 24, 2010

This research differs from the literature-based Shakespeare class for EFL students in two main ways. First, the researcher focuses on students’ development of language awareness, culture awareness, text awareness and intertext awareness.

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The Benefits and Challenges of Holistic In-house Task-based Language Learning and Assessment

The Benefits and Challenges of Holistic In-house Task-based Language Learning and Assessment

| December 24, 2010

In this paper, insights from the specialized learning and assessment literature are used to outline some important challenges and the proposed solutions in one academic context in which holistic in-house tasks and rating scales that support teaching were designed. The first challenge is to ensure that the design of tasks and rating scales is not just task-based but also construct-based.

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