background: the spread of technology has influenced different aspects of human life, and teaching and learning are not exceptions. this study aimed to examine the potential contribution of the use of technology in teaching english language to medical students.   methods: this qualitative-action research study was conducted in birjand university of medical sciences (bums), with 60 medical studen...

BACKGROUND In tropical settings, malaria education at school is potentially useful, but textbook content related to malaria education has so far received little attention. This study aimed to examine whether school textbooks contain sufficient knowledge and skills to help children in primary and lower secondary schools and their family members to cope with malaria. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDI...

Many  elements  contribute  to  the  relative  difficulty  in  acquiring  specific  aspects  of  English  as  a foreign  language  (Goldschneider  &  DeKeyser,  2001).  Modal  auxiliary  verbs  (e.g.  could,  might), are  examples  of  a  structure  that  is  difficult  for  many  learners.  Not  only  are  they  particularly complex  semantically,  but  especially  in  the  Malaysian  context ...

This study aims to explore the missing link between English textbooks used in high schools (9th-12th grades) and university entrance exams (2010-2019) Turkey on lexical syntactic complexity levels by using corpus linguistics tools: AntWordProfiler, TAALED, L2 Syntactic Complexity Analyzer (L2SCA). Official complementary materials obtained from Ministry of National Education have been compared a...

This content analysis study focused on three main purposes, including to analyse the High Frequency Words (HFWs) of Dolch’s list in reading texts from English textbooks Indonesian senior high schools, language features HFWs textbooks, and propose strategies that can be used teaching HFWs. The were grouped into types recount text, narrative descriptive text. further analysed using an online word...

This paper aims to analyze 16 English language school textbooks used in the Omani government schools. Quantitative and qualitative content analyses are investigate personality traits found textbooks. The analysis included all personal implied by images texts According Hawkins’s (2007) classification of traits, examined: traditional feminist gender traits. study results have indicated that there...

Despite our increasing knowledge on vocabulary and its learning and teaching, the reality in a classroom may still be somewhat more traditional. This paper looks at how lexical knowledge is portrayed in an EFL classroom and in pupils’ ideas of words. The data derives from a longitudinal study that investigated the development of children’s metalinguistic awareness during their first six years a...

Adults as well adolescents create exceptional groups of English language learners with their specific expectations. At present text books are the main source used to teach English. Although it is undisputable that they provide a syllabus, and range activities, taking into account communicative purpose language, advisable enrich lesson in supplementary materials. These materials should include n...

Grammatical change is an extremely interesting area but does presuppose some knowledge of grammar. For this reason, if you do not have this knowledge yet, this chapter will work best if you have first familiarised yourself with the terminology discussed in the chapters on grammar, i.e. especially chapters and 5–8. Chapters on grammatical change in traditional textbooks on the history of English...