English pronunciation is still neglected in EFL/ESL classrooms throughout the world including Asia today. One of the reasons that it is neglected or ignored is because not many English pronunciation teaching strategies or techniques are available to teachers in the classroom. The purpose of this study is to review articles on strategies for teaching pronunciation from different sources, so publ...

This study examines the reliability of automatic speech recognition (ASR) software used to teach English pronunciation, focusing on one particular piece of software, FluSpeak, as a typical example. Thirty-six Korean English as a Foreign Language (EFL) college students participated in an experiment in which they listened to 15 sentences that appeared in FluSpeak and recorded their voices, repeat...

Studying and applying English as a foreign language in Kurdistan Region has been used academic non-academic fields. The use of the first (L1) Learning nation where it is not primary known (EFL). For instance, since isn't Nation's official language, students Iraq studying are categorized EFL students. Sessions source ongoing debate among professionals academics throughout globe, especially wheth...

Recent studies have shown that Iraqi English as a foreign language (EFL) students face many challenges when composing in an academic context, where they produce wide range of errors spelling, punctuation and grammar, trouble writing coherent texts managing their tasks (Alshujairi, 2017; Ahmed & Mohammed, 2015). One the main reasons why EFL lack proficiency is do not receive necessary feedback t...

The study investigated instructors’ beliefs about the nature of L2 writing, teaching and assessing using inventory interview data from 106 instructors in Turkish EFL context. results showed that although value process-oriented genre-oriented approaches to they cannot disregard product-oriented approach. It was also found do not have sufficient knowledge writing assessment terminology digital to...

The current study examined the correlation among Iranian EFL learners’ emotional intelligence (EI), critical thinking (CT) ability, and L2 vocabulary knowledge (VK). To this end, surveys were administered to 75 Iranian advanced EFL participants. Analyses of the data revealed a mutual relationship between the Iranian EFL learners’ EI and their L2 VK. Similarly, a positive correlation was found b...

Genes encoding elongation factor-like (EFL) proteins, which show high similarity to elongation factor-1alpha (EF-1alpha), have been found in phylogenetically distantly related eukaryotes. The sporadic distribution of "EFL-containing" lineages within "EF-1alpha-containing" lineages indirectly, but strongly, suggests lateral gene transfer as the principal driving force in EFL evolution. However, ...

The recent Large Language Models (LLMs) use advanced algorithms to identify areas where sentence structure and word choice can be improved detect grammar, syntax, spelling mistakes in sentences. This study aimed investigate the effectiveness of Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) detecting English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ writing errors compared human instructors. exa...