Purpose Throughout the years many scholars grappled with the perennially pressing question about the use of the mother tongue (MT) in the English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom. The studies, however, which venture into identifying the student voice, are rather circumscrib…
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The King Abdullah Foreign Scholarship Programs gives thousands of young Saudi Arabian women the opportunity to study abroad, learn English, and earn advanced degrees. How do students from this religiously conservative nation, studying at two Washington universities, construct ca…
Very little is known about how teachers' conceptualizations of digital technology and their uses of the technology evolve and relate. Yet knowing about and understanding teachers' conceptions and uses of digital technology are essential for learning how teachers integrate it eff…
This is a qualitative study which investigated francophone EFL teachers' perceptions of research. Focus was put on teachers' views of research process, value, and constraints. Semi-structured interview data were collected from four EFL teachers working as part-timers for an Engl…
Purpose. The purpose of this research was to investigate whether the use of authentic songs in the introduction of new vocabulary items had an effect on vocabulary acquisition and retention for second language learners. This was achieved by comparing the introduction of the new …
This quantitative study examined the role that metacognition and self-efficacy, through goal-setting practices, play in increasing English proficiency of middle school English learners. The problem addressed was middle school English learners' lack of awareness of the need to be…
The purpose of this dissertation research project is to explore how recently-arrived immigrant adolescents who are English learners (ELs) experience New York City during an era of unprecedented globalization and neoliberal social and economic policies. It explores immigrant adol…
To meet the academic and social-emotional needs of recently-arrived immigrant youth, Newcomer high schools have been created in many urban areas. In New York City, these schools are often comprised mostly of Spanish-speaking students (ranging from 80-95%) with a small, yet diver…
Students' and teachers' attitudes towards an English language teaching approach play an important role for its implementation success or failure. This study measured Pakistani government school students' and teachers' attitudes towards Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) and G…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of reading strategies and self-efficacy with the reading comprehension of high school students in Indonesia. A convenience sample of 138 high school students from a state high school participated in this study. To mea…
This paper firstly examines the historical context of Malaysian curriculum in regards to the teaching of English, and moves on to dissect the present context of Malaysian English classrooms. This paper is primarily focused on analyzing English classrooms in three Malaysian schoo…
With English language education increasingly viewed worldwide as an important mechanism for global economic development, many policy makers in developing countries are promoting the English language as the vital skill necessary for successful competition in an ever changing worl…
This study is an exploration of the ways in which four Somali students use language to express their identity and assert their views. The study explores the ways in which the Somali students' home culture and the school culture influence the development of their identity. Studen…
This study addressed the problem of underachieving female English as second language students in the Persian Gulf Region. The purpose of this correlational study was to explore the relationship between parental participation, as measured by a middle school parent-participation s…
Through a sociocultural lens, this study examines five Saudi Arabian engineering graduate students' valuation of English writing, their self-perceptions of writing, what promoted the development of those self-perceptions and how their self-perceptions compare with engineering in…
By the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, the makeup of the student body in education changed drastically. Second language learners have become a consistently increasing student population in the American college educational system (Institute for Inte…
This study examines English faculty perceptions of the Writing Center at American Design University in Qatar (ADU-Q) through a sociocultural framework and social capitalist analysis. The current proliferation of American higher education branch campuses in the Arabian Gulf regio…
The primary purpose of this investigation was to explore an instructional approach for reading, writing, and talking about literature in an EFL environment. The instructional approach investigated in this study is Transactional Literature Discussions (TLD), which has an aim of f…
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. …