The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect critical thinking-infused paragraph writing instruction on enhancing university first-year L2 students’ intellectual traits. involved two randomly selected Social Science stream classes. researchers employed embedded design in because they mainly used quantitative data augmented by qualitative data. analyzed questionnaire and interview usi...

The English translation of Leo Tolstoy’s novel War and Peace has the following notable property: it contains this paragraph as a subsequence. If one were to write the letters and spaces that appear in the book as a string, then there would be a subsequence of the string that is identical to the string of letters and spaces in this paragraph. The full property is more general than that – War and...

Learning to speak foreign language requires more than knowing its grammatical and semantic rules. Speaking a language is especially difficult for foreign language learners because effective oral communication requires the ability to use the language appropriately in social interaction. This paper examines these aspects, so that teachers can more effectively help adult learners developing their ...

The present study was conducted to investigate the impact of multimodal discourse on Iraqi EFL learners' writing skills. To achieve goal, a group including 40 learners participated in free paragraph course based their scores Placement Test. Selected participants were randomly assigned control (N=20) and experimental groups. Prior start course, both groups given pretest (writing test). exposed t...