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This study sets out to examine the communication strategies (CSs) employed by non-native speaker novice science teachers (NNS-NvSTs) in teaching science in English. Twenty Secondary Four science lessons conducted by ten NNS-NvSTs were audio-recorded, transcribed and coded deductively as well as inductively. Perceptions on the meanings and uses of the CSs were also obtained from all ten NNS-NvSTs via...
Because of their use in reporting the claims of self and others, packaging information as fact, and allowing writers to express evaluative stance, that-complement clauses allow writers to distance themselves from their subject matter and project an objective persona. This study's contribution is a focus on that-clauses in the student report genre. Wide use of student reports based on quantitative...
This study describes a wiki project for a Business Chinese course designed to develop students' intercultural communication competence. It explores students' perceptions of the wiki platform and analyses the advantages and disadvantages perceived by students. It also reports on the effects of interaction between English speaking students in the UK and Chinese students in China who were learning each...
Research has shown that those who build strong social networks during study abroad (SA) tend to benefit linguistically, but little is known about how learners develop social networks during their time abroad. This study documents how 71 learners of Arabic developed these networks and what factors contributed to their formation during SA in Jordan or Egypt. The most common strategies learners used...
This paper reports a study of Pakistani undergraduate students' motivation to learn English, using Dörnyei's (2009) L2 Motivational Self System as the main theoretical framework, while including some context-specific factors. The purpose of the study was both to contribute to the ongoing validation of Dörnyei's model for describing contemporary L2 motivation and to capture motivational factors which...
This article explores 59 university students' motivation for learning German as a foreign language over the course of one academic year. It sheds light on the role of the ideal L2 self, integrative and instrumental orientations, and task-based self-efficacy for students' motivation and pays particular attention to the relationship between the ideal L2 self and self-efficacy beliefs. With the exception...
The Productive Vocabulary Levels Test (PVLT) has been used to assess second language learners' vocabulary size for diagnostic and pedagogic purposes. We propose another, as yet, unexplored purpose for the test – as ‘self-efficacy enhancers’ to motivate low English proficiency (LEP) learners. The existing tests available at between 2000 and 10,000-word level however, are not suitable as they are beyond...
This study explored the effects of varying the mode of presenting multiple-choice tests items on L2 listeners' performance and perceptions. In the study, 87 Chinese college students in Taiwan took a listening test with 30 written multiple-choice items and another 30 items presented orally. In addition to test-taking, the participants also completed a short questionnaire on their perceptions of the...
Current approaches to second language teaching place a great emphasis on the development of learners' communicative competence. However, teachers are frequently bewildered by some learners' reluctance to communicate and wonder what impedes their oral participation. To understand this phenomenon better, I conducted a naturalistic inquiry to investigate five Chinese immigrant learners' willingness to...
Few students who learn English as a Foreign Language (EFL) could benefit from bilingual corpus-based systems if instruction on metalinguistic awareness is not provided. This study reports on a bilingual corpus-based system with error-detection and grading mechanisms to arouse students' metalinguistic awareness in constructing English (L2) sentences from Chinese (L1) texts. Sixty-three college students...
Numerous studies have been conducted on the effectiveness of reflective journal writing in (second language) teacher education. However, only a few studies have explored pre-service and in-service teachers' own perceptions in this regard, especially in the context of ELT (English Language Teaching). To address this gap, a focus group discussion was conducted among six in-service teachers on the advantages...
White (2003) and others have identified the many challenges associated with the shift from face-to-face to distance and, more recently, blended language teaching. This study examines the way in which individual teachers have responded to those challenges, drawing on the technique of narrative enquiry, as outlined in the work of Clandinin (2007) and Clandinin and Connelly (2000) and further developed...
Assessing the motivational responses of 239 elementary school students among 271 students (141 boys, 130 girls) comprising 63 third (8–9 years old), 62 fourth (9–10 years old), 75 fifth (10–11 years old), and 71 sixth (11–12 years old) grade students in one public elementary school in Tokyo, Japan, this study examined a motivational model of English learning, based on self-determination theory (SDT)...
The present study addressed the question whether formulaic expressions indicate nativelike selection in the target language by examining seven Turkish students' use of formulaic expressions during their first year in the United States. Fourteen external raters who spoke English as their first language rated the Turkish (focal group) and American students' (control group) DCT responses in terms of...
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