Because English is the medium of instruction in higher education in the UAE, many students coming from public schools, where English is taught as a subject, find themselves at the periphery; excluded from access to the ...
This article reports on a study that explored teachers’ perceptions of teaching English as an international language (TEIL) vis-à-vis their reported classroom practices. It is a small scale exploratory study which is based ...
Relevant research studies show an outstanding effect of the collocational competence on reinforcing the language proficiency of students learning a foreign or second language (Ellis, 2001). Students’ awareness of word ...
Class participation and assignments are considered important parts since they contribute to students’ deep learning. Although positive correlations were found in a number of studies (Sly, 1999; Sly & Rennie, 1999) between ...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is threatened by an identity-loss, due a lack of balance between Arabic and English education in the country hence, the National Federal Council has proposed a draft for a monolingual Arabic ...
The use of vocabulary frequency lists in English language teaching and learning has been an area of continued research for roughly the past 170 years. There has been an increased focus on these lists in the last 25 years ...
This paper reports on a qualitative study conducted to explore the impact of a proposed Dynamic Assessment (DA) model on the writing of six ESL learners. The model is rooted in Vygotsky’s concept of Zone of Proximal ...
This study sought to explore Bahraini teachers‟ beliefs about teaching and learning as they related to their daily work and their interactions with the contexts in which they worked and lived so as to construct a deeper ...
This paper will outline the findings of a small-scale research project and will start by introducing the literature related to the theory of critical pedagogy as a means of developing textbook content. Such critical content ...
Professional development is seen as a fundamental aspect in teachers‟ careers if they want to “remain up to date in their knowledge of the curriculum, wise in their selection and use of a repertoire of pedagogical skills, ...
This paper investigates the experiences of three Chinese postgraduate students studying on an MA TESOL and Applied Linguistics course in a British university context. It demonstrates how subtle discourses of „ownership‟ ...
Teaching English for specific purposes is sometimes quite a daunting challenge for most of the teachers in any part of the world despite their personal motivation, expertise and availability of the best of the resources. ...