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Editorial 11 Jul 2013 | 08:02 pm
Exploring the Development of 'Interest' in Learning English as a Foreign/Second Language 11 Jul 2013 | 08:02 pm
The paper proposes a new conceptual perspective for understanding students’ engagement in L2 learning, in particular the concept of interest development in learning English. It investigates situationa...
English Language Classroom Practices: Bangladeshi Primary School Children's Perceptions 11 Jul 2013 | 08:02 pm
English language teaching (ELT) has been investigated from various angles including how English language teachers perceive what happens in an ELT classroom. How primary school English language learner...
Reflecting on ESL Teacher Beliefs and Classroom Practices: A Case Study 11 Jul 2013 | 08:02 pm
This paper presents a case study that investigated and compared the stated beliefs and observed classroom practices relating to language teaching of one experienced and one novice English language tea...
Constructing a Collaborative, Emergent Syllabus of Communicative Performances in a Nursing English Course in Taiwan 11 Jul 2013 | 08:02 pm
Curriculum development research on nursing English in Taiwan has tended to end at needs analysis, offering little guidance on how to design and implement a course. Our objective was to examine how a c...
Displaying Critical Thinking in EFL Academic Writing: A Discussion of Japanese to English Contrastive Rhetoric 11 Jul 2013 | 08:02 pm
This article provides an examination of the literature on issues surrounding the problems Japanese university students face in learning critical argument in their English academic writing courses. Jap...
Towards the Development of an Academic Word List for Applied Linguistics Research Articles 11 Jul 2013 | 08:02 pm
Academic vocabulary, as the most challenging aspect of language learning in EAP and ESP contexts, has received much attention in the last few decades (e.g. Laufer, 1988; Sutarsyah, et al., 1994; Laufe...
Embedded Vowels: Remedying the Problems Arising out of Embedded Vowels in the English Writings of Arab Learners 11 Jul 2013 | 08:02 pm
L1 habits often tend to interfere with the process of learning a second language. The vowel habits of Arab learners of English are one such interference. Arabic orthography is such that certain vowels...
