Abstract Although the teaching of English to primary school children has been rapidly growing in many English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) countries around world, a shortage specialist teachers remains persistent challenge. Consequently, non-specialists, such as homeroom initially trained generalists, are more often required teach English. The present study, focusing on 304 non-specialist servin...

abstract literature review indicates that an effective and good teacher has an important role in students' performances and their success. pivotal roles of teachers may affect students’ attitudes and motivations to language learning. improving the field of foreign language teaching and learning without improving the qualities of efl teachers seems impossible. this attempt, at first hand, r...

This paper proposes the automatic generation of Fill-in-the-Blank Questions (FBQs) together with testing based on Item Response Theory (IRT) to measure English proficiency. First, the proposal generates an FBQ from a given sentence in English. The position of a blank in the sentence is determined, and the word at that position is considered as the correct choice. The candidates for incorrect ch...

This study investigated the professional identity construction of NNESTs (Non-native English-speaking teachers) in Taiwan. The research paradigm was rooted poststructuralism, which emphasizes subjectivity and exhibits multiple, unstable, non-linear properties inquiry. Participants comprised two male female in-service English teachers from public private senior high schools, whose teaching exper...

For second language learners, the value of the explicit teaching of English grammar has never been questioned. However, in recent times there has been dissent about whether or not to teach English grammar to native speakers. From the late 1960s onwards English grammar teaching in the United Kingdom largely disappeared from the curriculum, and was replaced by teachers focusing on students learni...

This paper presents and evaluates approaches to automatically score the content correctness of spoken responses in a new language test for teachers of English as a foreign language who are non-native speakers of English. Most existing tests of English spoken proficiency elicit responses that are either very constrained (e.g., reading a passage aloud) or are of a predominantly spontaneous nature...

crucial roles of teachers may affect students’ attitudes and motivations to language learning. to improve the field of foreign language teaching and learning we need to improve the qualities of efl teachers; hence, recognizing and identifying the qualities of effective efl teachers is essential. so this study attempted to investigate the characteristics of effective english language teachers ba...