Investigating English Speaking Problems: Implications for Speaking Curriculum Development in Indonesia

Investigating Non-Native English Speaking Graduate Students’ Pragmatic Development in Requestive Emails

The present study investigated learners’ interlanguage pragmatic development through analysis of 99 requestive emails addressed to a faculty member over a period of up to two years. Most previous studies mainly investigated how non-native English speaking students’ (NNESs) pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic competence differed from native English speaking students (NESs) and compared learners ...

Understanding L2 Speaking Problems: Implications for ESL Curriculum Development in a Teacher Training Institution in Hong Kong

This paper reports the result of a study that aimed to identify the problems with oral English skills of ESL (English as a second language) students at a tertiary teacher training institution in Hong Kong. The study, by way of semi-structured interview, addresses the gap in our understanding of the difficulties ESL students encountered in their oral English development in the context of a Bache...

THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH LISTENIG AND SPEAKING SKILLS

Managing problems in speaking

The problems that participants in conversation have, it is argued, are really joint problems and have to be managed jointly. The participants have three types of strategies for managing them. (1) They try to prevent foreseeable but avoidable problems. (2) They warn partners of foreseeable but unavoidable problems. And (3) they repair problems that have already arisen. Speakers and addressees co...

Translating materials for non-English speaking audiences.

This brief provides basic "how to" information for translating written materials into languages other than English. Additional information and sample materials can be found on the Center for Medicare Education Web site.