This volume examines the agency of second/foreign language teachers in diverse geographical contexts and in both K-12 and adult education. It offers new understandings and conceptualizations of second/foreign language teacher agency through a variety of types of empirical data. …
This volume examines the agency of second/foreign language teachers in diverse geographical contexts and in both K-12 and adult education. It offers new understandings and conceptualizations of second/foreign language teacher agency through a variety of types of empirical data. …
With the increasing demand for English language proficiency in today’s global environment, comes a need for trained English as a Second or Foreign Language (ESL/EFL) teachers. Many countries such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are establishing bachelor and master degree progr…
As initial training of EFL teachers in Jordan becomes increasingly school-based,
There has been increasing interest in research on creating word lists in the past decade with more than 60 separate lists being published along with Nation’s (2016) timely Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing. However, this focus on word lists has primar…
This thesis explores how learner independence was implemented as a curricular goal at a tertiary level Preparatory Programme (PP) in the United Arab Emirates. This exploratory-interpretive case study shows how students and teachers at the English programme responded to an Indepe…
This research investigated the main sources of occupational stress that tertiary English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers experience in the United Arab Emirates. A secondary focus was to identify the coping strategies used by EFL teachers who exhibit low levels of stress, an…
This research seeks to discover what happens to students’ English language skills while studying in English-medium classes in UAE universities, and to look at how this compares with what instructors and students think happens to students’ English proficiency during the four year…
English has become a common medium that has impacted Saudi Arabia’s educational system. While Saudi Arabia, on the global stage, is known for its conservative practices especially in relation to women, there has been a significant rise in Saudi women graduating from universities…
This paper explores the relationship between language, culture, and emotion in the Indonesian English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom. It does this by focusing on the Indonesian concept of malu , an emotional response often translated as "shame." Malu is a complex emotiona…
This study investigated the effect of exposure to authentic and computer assisted language learning-based English materials on learners' metaphorical competence and conceptual fluency in Iranian foreign/second language (L2) classrooms. Previous studies of classroom-based L2 lear…
L2 motivation has evolved since Gardner and Lambert introduced the socioeducational model and highlighted the importance of attitudes and affect to the SLA process. Though the field expanded focus, little work has been done into L2 teacher motivation; instead, most studies have …
The study sought to provide evidence regarding the pedagogic value of communicative tasks in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) setting. Previous research suggests that communicative tasks can provide conditions and promote processes which facilitate second language (L2) lea…
Research indicates that extensive reading has been an effective approach for learning a language and therefore, more investigation in different contexts is needed. One major requirement for the success of the extensive reading approach is the availability of large amounts of mat…
The purpose of this study was to explore and describe views and attitudes of selected Saudi EPL teachers toward introducing the target culture (TC) in their EFL classrooms to develop their students' sociolinguistic competence. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were condu…
This study examined the language learning strategies of Saudi EFL students in an intensive English language program. The study sought to give an account of the type and frequency of strategy use among these students in this relatively input-poor environment. It was also conducte…
Scope and method of study. The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between EFL learners' perceived reading strategies, vocabulary size, and reading comprehension. In addition to providing descriptive information about each variable in this relationship, th…