In this study the author tries to assess the effects of Theme-based Oral Approach (TOA) on the oral English proficiency of non-English majors as well as students’ leaning motives and interests resulted from the approach in EFL class of China. The study follows the quantitative and qualitative method in light of questionnaire, interview, class observation with the causal-comparative study betwee...

Studies on the move analysis in various sections of research articles have developed rapidly. However, studies communicative moves discussion section particularly written by vocational college students are still limited. In fact, those categorized as novice writers inevitably need illustrations how to write proper related their findings. Therefore, this study was aimed at exploring and cycle se...

It may seem easy for advanced learners to use collocation properly. This is not the case for students who are at the intermediate level. At this learning stage, students struggle to use words correctly. This study looks at students‟ usage of collocation qualitatively and quantitatively, hoping to give suggestions to teachers to help students work on certain errors. 98 writing samples under two ...

this study investigated the characteristics of effective secondary school iranian efl teachers from students’ and teachers’ perspectives. to this end, 376 junior secondary school students and 32 efl teachers teaching at various iranian secondary schools participated in the study. a validated open-ended questionnaire was distributed among the student and teacher participants and asked for their ...

The current study investigated ambiguity errors that characterise the L2 tertiary-level writing of Chinese college students. Data were drawn from 56 authentic English writings 11 students different disciplines across 10 institutions. A thematic analysis was conducted to examine error patterns at lexical and syntactic levels. Lexical ambiguities found include Chinglish, ambiguous references, abs...