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Although reflective practice has become a dominant paradigm in language teacher education research and programs worldwide, little of the inquiry into EFL teacher education has been documented in Taiwan, ROC. Critical reflection raises teachers' awareness about teaching, enables deeper understanding of variables related to teaching, and triggers positive changes in their practice. The study aims to...
The present study, building upon Pica, Holliday, Lewis and Morgenthaler's 1989 (Comprehensible output as an outcome of linguistic demands on the learner. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 11(1), 63-90.) study on modified output, examines the impact of learner proficiency in learner-learner interaction, particularly on opportunities for modified output through interactional moves. Data were collected...
Cooperative learning (CL) has been proven to be superior to individualistic and competitive forms of instruction in improving the cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes of schooling. However, less is known about the learners' perceptions of their CL experiences and the conditions under which CL enhances achievement. The present study investigated the perceptions of the CL experience of a group of middle...
Within the context of recent concerns that mainstream composition studies in the United States have largely neglected ESL writing, this report describes the performance of ESL students in the exit test of a first year writing program at a US institution. The passing rate, which was high when the exit test was based solely on a prompt, declined sharply when the format was changed to a reading-writing...
This study looks into the cultural dimension involved in the e-mail correspondence between university EFL students in Taiwan and pre-service bilingual/ESL teachers in the USA. E-mail entries and end-of-project reports were analyzed to yield insights into the cross-cultural communication process. The data analysis focused on the types of cultural information transmitted and effects of cultural assumptions...
The internationalisation of the labour market implies the need for any workforce to be equipped with multilingual and multicultural competencies. Increasingly, students recognise this fact and, in order to enhance their career prospects, they enrol in courses with a language option. For specialist foreign language learners, cultural competence also involves workplace-related skills. Here, content...
This article reports on a longitudinal study that investigated changes in the beliefs about second language learning of 146 trainee ESL teachers over their 3-year programme at the City University of Hong Kong. It was hoped that while trainees might have some mistaken ideas about language learning at the beginning of the programme, these beliefs would change as they studied TESL methodology. I propose...
The purpose of this study was to explore whether or not the C-test, as it is claimed, serves as a valid operationalization of the reduced redundancy principle. In so doing, an attempt was made to investigate the frequency and type of micro- and macro-level cues that EFL learners employ to restore the mutilations in the C-test. A C-test comprising five texts was administered concurrently with the TOEFL...
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