This paper aims at emphasizing the use of literature as a popular technique for teaching both basic language skills (i.e. reading, writing, listening and speaking) and language areas (i.e. vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation) in our times. Reasons for using literary texts in foreign language classroom and main criteria for selecting suitable literary texts in foreign language classes are stre...

This research aims at determining the similarities, dissimilarities, and possible learning difficulties faced by students English Indonesian nominalization as well recommendations to TEFL. The qualitative design was applied. documentation technique used collect data. To analyze data, researchers a descriptive analysis. results showed that there were three similarities four dissimilarities betwe...

The newly administered Iranian Ph.D. Program Entrance Exam (PPEE) is supposed to have had different washback effects on university curriculums. This qualitative study examined the effects of the new TEFL PPEE on the applicants’ study plans and strategies from the points of view of both Iranian university instructors and applicants. To this end, we conducted in-depth interviews with 10 experienc...

This study is aimed at finding out the similarities, dissimilarities, and possible learning difficulties faced by students English Indonesian singular forms as well its contribution to TEFL. The researchers used a qualitative research design. documentation technique was collect data. To analyze data, descriptive analysis. results showed that there were four similarities two dissimilarities betw...

the aim of this study is to investigate iranian tefl graduates’ conception of measurement error in research. adopting a sequential explanatory multi-method strategy (borg, 2009), the researchers analyzed causal and temporal relations in the research narratives elicited from 30 tefl graduates. gee’s (1986) framework for identifying narrative discourse units (lines, stanzas, and episodes) was ado...

The possibility of curricular innovation in English teaching in nonWestern countries has been questioned on cultural grounds. However, in some cases this may be unjustified; insufficient attention may have been paid to the diversity and extent of the educational traditions that either co-exist, or have existed in the past, in a particular cultural area. Historical and theoretical analyses may s...