The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of the contextualized or functional grammar instruction in improving the writing performance of adult English language learners (ELL). The participants in this study consisted of a total of five adult ELL students, all of wh…
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English language mastery is important to the academic achievement of high school students in Nigeria. As the official language of instruction in multi linguistic Nigerian schools, proficiency in English language is essential for the academic success of students in high schools. …
The purpose of this study was to examine how Arabic high schools English Language Learners (ELLs) reveal their cultural identity and construct meaning from visual representations, self-created drawings, and other artistic creations and employ them to spring board writing. Writte…
In this study, the researcher qualitatively investigates the perceptions of six Saudi EFL teachers on the importance of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in the Saudi EFL educational context. The study's participants were male Ph.D. students in an English Department a…
The population of English Language Learners (ELLs) in the United States has been growing at an increasingly rapid rate (U. S. Census Bureau, 2010), and nowhere is this growth more evident than in U.S. public schools. As of school year 2010-11, nearly 25% of all students in the C…
Research shows us that those immersed in digital media are engaged in an unprecedented exploration of language, social interaction, and self-directed activity that leads to diverse forms of learning (Buckingham & Willet, 2006). In the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) i…
This dissertation delves into some EFL stakeholders' understanding of spiritual identities and power relations associated with these identities as performed in an undergraduate EFL teacher education program at a Christian university in Indonesia. This study is motivated by an on…
A pedagogy of belonging is the educational ethos permeating schools that work: it refers to those "kinds of things" that change a group of strangers into a successful, transcultural community of practice that supports youths' academic, social, and cultural participation and deve…
The early cessation of the mother tongue (MT) and early introduction of English in Nigeria's classrooms may cause children to perform poorly if they lack mastery of skills in either language. The use of English as a medium of instruction in an elementary school where students sp…
The contemporary construction of English as a global language and of its learning as an essential investment securing a worldwide valued literacy and cultural capital required for access to and success in various spheres of communities within and beyond national borders is among…
This dissertation includes a pilot study on the challenges facing students and teachers in middle school and a follow-up study on the influences of situated learning on pre-service teachers' cultural and linguistic awareness. The first study was conducted in spring 2012 and it f…
This research focused on the acquisition of the English phonological system by adult Persian speakers who are learning English as a foreign language in Tehran, Iran. In order to evaluate students' pronunciation strengths and weaknesses in three levels of proficiency (beginning, …
Arab Muslim international students face challenges while completing higher education degrees in the Western countries due to diversity in culture, socialization, language, and educational systems (Abukhattala, 2004; Mostafa, 2006, Seggi & Sanford, 2010). This narrative study exa…
This study explores Palestinian university teachers' beliefs regarding the concepts of culture and intercultural communicative competence (ICC) and the impact of their perception on classroom teaching practices. The study argues that in the age of globalization, spread of Englis…
The present study examines the influence of Indonesia's in-service teacher certification program through teacher professional training, namely Pendidikan dan Latihan Profesi Guru (PLPG), on teacher learning. It is guided by learning leverage interpretive tool, constructivism and…
Since 1972, Libya has made considerable efforts to improve teacher standards and to attend to the needs of Libyan public institutions and academia, by funding students to pursue graduate and post-graduate studies abroad. However, since the introduction of the Libyan Study Abroad…
The main goal of this investigation was to identify the listening strategies of advanced and intermediate second language listeners in English and to compare the listening strategies of both groups of research participants. A total of 30 Arabic-speaking ESL learners were adminis…
There are around 80,243 Saudi Arabian students are now studying in the United States under the King Abdullah scholarship program (M. Alshaalan, personal communication, May 5, 2013).This research will focus on finding the challenges faced by Saudi ESL scholarship students and how…
This study investigated the extent to which Saudi students were interested in American academic slang terms and expressions. The goal of this study was to examine their knowledge and perceptions of academic slang as L2 learners living in the US. In this study, both qualitative a…