This paper will focus on recent curriculum initiatives in developing academic literacy in English as a requirement in Initial Teacher Education programmes, the PGDE (Post-Graduate Diploma in Education Programme) and in the ...
In this paper, I start by demonstrating the importance of language assessmentespecially of English language. Then, in the second section,I attempt toconceptualize language testing and assessment by providing various ...
There is a serious lack of literature on teacher voice and curriculum development within a TESOL framework in Saudi Arabia. This small scale critical study reports the findings on perceptions of teacher voice and curriculum ...
Not long ago, collocation has emerged as a significant category of lexical patterning and it is soon becoming an established unit of description in language teaching courses and materials. For native speakers of English, ...
Oman has chosen to switch to English medium instruction (EMI) in higher educational institutions. The purpose of this study is to explore Omani college students’ views on EMI and the effects it can have on their learning ...
This 4-week interpretive study explored the impact of online teacher’s corrective feedback (OTCF) on L2 students’ English language awareness during teacher-student synchronous text-based chats so as to improve the students’ ...
Investigating the non-native speakers’(NNEST) perceptions of their native-speaker colleagues has become a controversial issue in TESOL. In this research, the researcher will show that Bahraini teachers’ (BELT)perceptions ...
This paper discusses the main tenet of teaching so called ‘standard English’ with an inner circle native speaker model in English language education. Moreover, it explores the actual status of NESTs in ELT professions and ...
At the tertiary level, skimming has been viewed as either an essential reading skill or dismissed as a skill too basic to be taught. As an exploratory study, this paper looks at theoretical conceptions of skimming, examines ...