This paper is a part of a larger study that examines the development of students' English writing skills during the transition from school education to higher education in Syria, where English is a foreign language. The main objective of this paper is exploring teaching practices affect students transition from one level to the next via obtaining students' perceptions about writing, challenges ...

In recent years, many researchers have been paying more and attention to developing a methodology for teaching foreign language using realia (real objects) authentic materials: newspapers, television, internet, technology in English as language. Authentic materials are borrowed from the everyday professional life of native speakers carrying reliable linguistic cultural information field studied...

This paper retrieves the keywords of “linguistics and counts relevant articles Modern Foreign Languages in past ten years from database China Knowledge Network (CNKI) analyzes by using CiteSpace, a visualization software. Based on analysis, it can be found that linguistics research has basically formed development trend application-oriented interdisciplinary intersectional years, among which ap...

This paper is a part of a larger study that examines the development of students' English writing skills during the transition from school education to higher education in Syria, where English is a foreign language. The main objective of this paper is exploring teaching practices affect students transition from one level to the next via obtaining students' perceptions about writing, challenges ...