Teaching Writing Skills in EFL Classes with Blending Learning

An Investigation of the Relationship between L2 Learning Styles and Teaching Methodologies in EFL Classes

Individual differences have always been a key element in the success and failure of learners in language classrooms. Learners come to EFL classes with various learning styles and teachers utilize different methodologies targeting different needs of the learners which may have important effects on the quality of the learning environment. In this study a comparison is made between learning styles...

Beyond the Design of Automated Writing Evaluation: Pedagogical Practices and Perceived Learning Effectiveness in Efl Writing Classes

Chi-Fen Emily Chen and Wei-Yuan Eugene Cheng National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Automated writing evaluation (AWE) software is designed to provide instant computergenerated scores for a submitted essay along with diagnostic feedback. Most studies on AWE have been conducted on psychometric evaluations of its validity; however, studies on how effectively AWE is ...

Teaching physiotherapy skills in culturally-diverse classes

BACKGROUND Cultural competence, the ability to work in cross-cultural situations, has been acknowledged as a core skill for physiotherapists and other health professionals. Literature in this area has focused on the rationale for physiotherapists to provide culturally-competent care and the effectiveness of various educational strategies to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge about cultural...

10 Globalization and the Politics of Teaching EFL Writing

Heike Neumann's review of Teaching ESL/EFL Reading and Writing

Teaching ESL/EFL Reading and Writing by Paul Nation is written for in-service and future teachers who want to learn more about encouraging their students’ development of reading and writing skills in classrooms of English as a second language (ESL) or English as a foreign language (EFL). It has been conceived and used as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses of teaching methods. It ...