This paper describes the organization of a concerted action of German and Chinese phoneticians, IT speech technologists and specialists in the field of foreign language teaching in order to create a new research program which has been proposed by the first author as a so-called graduate college (entitled “Chinesisch fr deutsche Ingenieure und andere L1-Sprecher des Deutschen”) to the Federal Go...

Interlanguage pragmatics, as an inseparable part of communicative competence, has been emphasized as an ultimate objective in language learning. This study explored the perceptions of Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) students regarding interlanguage pragmatics and the impact of textbooks tasks on shaping their pragmatic competence. To accomplish this objective, 137 senior EFL student...

The rapid development of educational informatization has brought great challenges to college English Language Teaching, and the traditional classroom education mode can no longer meet needs today’s Teaching. Therefore, College Teaching should strengthen construction mixed effectively combine online with offline education. “Output oriented approach” is a new foreign language theory constructed b...

one important issue that any material or test designer should bear in mind is to be careful about developing teaching and testing reading materials which would not be to the benefit of a group of readers or examinees and to the detriment of some others. one of the factors which may cause difference between the performances of english learners or test takers is the selection of reading tests wit...

humanizing language learning materials helps language teachers to design activities that are linked to learn- ers’ lives and experiences. this can result in higher motivation and engagement in the process of foreign language learning. self-determination theory-based instruction enhances learners’ engagement and motiva- tion through supporting the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competen...

The general purpose was to make senior secondary school teachers of English as a foreign language and their students aware of the possibilities of some pedagogical applications of Information Technology in foreign language (FL) teaching. The specific purpose was to study how computer-mediated, foreign language referential communication, carried out via communications networks and electronic mai...

The article discusses the theoretical and practical aspects of the multicultural self-organization of the student’s linguistic identity in the context of extended foreign language training. According to the authors’ point of view the methodological basis of the dialogue of cultures is presented by the philosophy of mutual understanding, mutual relationships in the global environment today. The ...