Category: ACLL2016
Form-Focused Grammar Instruction: Effects on Grammar Accuracy and Oral and Writing Proficiency in English
One of the main goals of second language learners is to develop awareness of the structure of language (Bialystok, 1989). …
Scaffolding Oral Presentation Instruction to Improve Communicative Competence Across Differing Student Levels and Disciplines
With increasing globalization, student acquisition of oral presentation skills has become more important than ever. For students to meet the …
The Convergence of Last and First-Mile: Practicum Curriculum Redesign for Language Majors
This on-going research intends to explore how Flipped Learning (FL) can be applied to a practicum course design for tertiary-level …
An Interlanguage Pragmatic Study on Taiwanese EFL Learners’ Email Requests
This study aims to investigate EFL learners interlanguage pragmatic development through the elicited request emails addressed to the faculty in …
Teachers’ Beliefs, Practices and Challenges in Using Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in an ESL Context in the Philippines
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has as its fundamental goal the promotion of communicative competence. Over the last two decades, many …
Videos as a Final Project for Assessment of Spanish as a Foreign Language in High Education Context
The present article shows how we are using audiovisual projects to assess different skills in the Spanish language of a …
Exploring EFL Learners’ Strategies of How They Improve the Process of Their Writing Assignments
Feedback on EFL/ESL learners' writing products plays an important role for learners to improve their writing final production (Nicol 2009; …
The Moral Imperative of Bi-Cultural Leadership: The Leader Laid Bare
This paper explores my journey as a High School principal as I explore culturally appropriate leadership styles that will ensure …
Helping Students to Write an Overview for IELTS Academic Writing Task 1
More universities and third level institutions now require at least an IELTS Band 6 for entry into courses of study …
Sing and Move – Removing Static English Language Classroom
Often in Taiwan, elementary students learn passively within the English language classroom. The learning environment is static and students appear …
Language Learning Strategies: The Case of Foreign Multilinguals in a Philippine Secondary School
Studies focused on learner-related factors have grown greatly through the years. However, local research directed on foreign language learners and …
Enhancing Students Willingness to Communicate in English through Korean Pop Culture: A Case Study
In recent years, Korean pop culture such as Korean drama, pop singers and TV programs have gained popularity in Taiwan, …
A Corpus Stylistics Study of the Mental Clauses and Speech and Thought Presentation of Gilbert’s (2006) ‘Eat Pray Love’
Elizabeth Gilbert's (2006) memoir Eat Pray Love depicts her journey of self-discovery in her trips to Italy, India and Indonesia …
Developing an Instructional Model to Teach Periphery Researchers to Write English Scientific Research Articles for Scholarly Journals
Periphery researchers in sciences have been found to have problems with publications of their research articles (RAs) in scholarly journals. …
An Evaluation of Students’ Oral Fluency to Identify Ways to Help Them Improve Their English Speaking Skills
Most English medium institutions in Hong Kong, from kindergarten to tertiary level, are using the Content-and-Language-Integrated-Learning (CLIL) approach to teach. …
The Effect of Metalinguistic Feedback and Recasts on Learners’ Uptake and Subsequent Production of Past Simple
This study aimed to investigate the effect of metalinguistic feedback and recasts on learners' uptake and subsequent production of past …
Cooperative Learning in the University EFL Classroom in Japan: A Brief Analysis
Many EFL classrooms at Japanese universities still adopt the traditional 'teacher-centered approach', where authority belongs to the teacher and who …
Recommend Video Materials to Enhance Language Learning Motivation by Collaborative Filtering Method
Learning English on Internet has become increasingly common, where Internet movies for learning English are also booming. For instance, the …
The Role of Duolingo on Foreign Language Learners’ Autonomous Learning
Duolingo, a free language learning software, is lessoned by units semantically and grammatically with different activities (translation, matching, speaking and …
The Study of English Listening and Speaking Skills Development by Using Computer Assisted Language Learning of Primary Students in Lampang Province
The purposes of this research were: 1) to study English Listening and Speaking Skills of using Computer Assisted Language Learning …
General Education with a Purpose: Theme-Based Approaches for Academic Literacy in English
The internationalization of higher education in Thailand has necessarily seen English as a General Education (GE) requirement as it is …
A Dynamic Usage-Based Approach: Using Video Segments in Teaching Listening Skill
In order to achieve the goals of National Foreign Language 2020 Project, the Ministry of Education and Training advocates a …
Effect of Imposition on Refusals of Requests by Vietnamese ESL Learners in Speaking and Emails
This study investigated effect of imposition on how Vietnamese learners of English at different levels of language proficiency refuse requests …
Internships in French-Speaking Environments: First Steps of a Thai University
Internships in French-speaking environments are transformational learning opportunities (TLO) that often contribute to enrich and broaden student learning and personal …
Psychosociological Predictors of Maritime Students’ English Proficiency
Due to the differing abilities of ESL students in learning a language, many language teachers are prompted to investigate the …
A Comparison of English Textbooks from the Perspectives of Reading: IB Diploma Programs and Japanese Senior High Schools
The Ministry of Education (MEXT) is promoting International Baccalaureate (IB) programs, aiming to increase the number of IB schools in …
Learning Strategies and Learner Attitudes in the Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game Cube World
The rapid progress of technology has revolutionized learning and in the field of computer assisted language learning, use of digital …
A Semantic Study on Verbs of Human Senses in English under Cognitive Linguistics (Versus Vietnamese)
Cognitive Linguistics is a recontextualizing approach. In contrast with formal semantics, the conception of meaning that lies at the basis …
The Discourse Strategy of Code Switching on SNS Texts: Focusing on the Case of Chinese-Korean and Chinese
This study aims to figure out the discourse functions of code switching which appears in the texts chatted on SNS, …