This thesis examines the process of professional identity among EFL (English as a Foreign Language) novice teachers in the Algerian context. More specifically, it aims to identify the factors which constitute professional identity such as personal histories and the practicum. It…
While every English learner experiences the learning process differently, some phenomena are more common for learners from specific L1 groups. In the case of this study, speakers of Arabic as an L1 often find that reading in English presents a level of difficulty beyond that of …
The purpose of this study is to determine why students at U.S. elite universities prefer to study abroad in Japan in short-term (8 weeks or less) programs rather than the traditional mid-length (more than 8 weeks but no more than 1 semester) and long-term (longer than 1 semester…
The purpose of this mixed-method study was to investigate how non-matriculated Chinese and Saudi students perceive their language learning experiences in an ESL context in a U.S. University. Specifically, it examines how each group perceives differences in language teaching meth…
Visual cues such as seeing the speaker’s face and gestures have been found to facilitate second-language (L2) listeners’ comprehension of native English speech (Sueyoshi & Hardison, 2005). Very few studies attempted to investigate how audiovisual cues affect the comprehension of…
Creativity is considered an important skill that should be promoted throughout the educational system. However, teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) in high schools in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) generally do not appear to use creative approaches for reasons tha…
Ce travail se propose de demontrer, par l'analyse detaillee du roman Soumission de Michel Houellebecq, que l'effritement de la notion de transcendance, incarnee a la fois dans la nation francaise et dans la religion chretienne, mene a une perturbation des deux elements vitaux de…
In this study, the purpose was to explore the effects of task-induced involvement load, input type and language proficiency on Turkish EFL learners’ productive and receptive word knowledge. In other words, the present study investigated how variously loaded tasks or tasks with t…
Yabancı dil eğitimi okullarda çeşitli ders kitaplarıyla yapılmaktadır. Bu kitaplar yabancı dil öğreniminin en önemli kaynaklarıdır. Seçilen ders kitapları yabancı dili çocuklara öğretmede oldukça büyük önem taşımaktadır ayrıca öğretmene ve öğrenciye kılavuz olarak yabancı dilin …
Bu araştırmada İngilizce ile Fransızca sesbilimsel olarak karşılaştırılmış ve Fransızcayı ikinci yabancı dil olarak öğrenen öğrencilerin sesletim yanlışlarının çözümlemesi yapılmıştır. Çalışma grubunu, Marmara Üniversitesi Atatürk Eğitim Fakültesi Fransız Dili Eğitimi Ana Bilim …
Bu araştırmanın amacı, üç farklı yayınevi tarafından çocuklara yabancı dil olarak Fransızcayı öğretmeyi hedefleyen A1 (A1.1 ve A1.2) başlangıç düzeyinde yazılmış ders kitaplarında ve ders kitaplarının yardımcı materyali olan CD’lerde yer alan kelime ve kelime varlıklarını incele…
The main aim of this study was to gain a greater understanding of the peer coaching practices in Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) amongst Arabic language secondary school teachers in Malaysia. The Malaysian Ministry of Education (MOE) made a commendable commitment to tra…