This article reports on an action research project which investigated the value of systematically and explicitly incorporating a pronunciation sub-syllabus within the overall syllabus of a full-time post-intermediate level ESOL course. This pronunciation syllabus involved raising each individual learner’s awareness of their difficulties with pronunciation and of the main features of spoken Engl...

Teaching conversation skills is a difficult task for teachers and requires careful attention when selecting the textbook that best suits learners' needs interests in addition to their different learning dispositions. This study proposes system analyzing content of English second-year undergraduate students An-Najah National University according five major rubrics: topic consistency, frequen...

The knowledge of vocabulary can be considered the main factor understanding context in learning a foreign or second language process. This seen clearly international exams such as TOEFL (Test English Foreign Language) and IELTS (International Language Testing Sysytem). research aims to analyze strategies 42 Omani EFL learners measure effect gender strategy selection among them. To collect infor...

reading comprehension plays a central role in nonfiction general english university courses in different efl situations and one of the important factors affecting it is vocabulary size. accordingly, the present study aimed at investigating the effect of unknown vocabulary size on efl learners’ reading comprehension. to this end, 40 tefl freshmen were ed to participate in this study on the basis...

this study examined the differences among high, mid and low ambiguity tolerance groups in their reading comprehension ability and their metacognitive awareness of reading strategies. to this end, 123 first-year college students majoring in engineering with an age range of 19-25 were stratified into three groups of high, mid and low ambiguity tolerance to participate in the study. they took part...

the present study investigated comparatively the impact of two types of input enhancement (i.e. textual vs. compound enhancement) on developing grammar ability in iranian efl setting. sixty-five female secondary high school students were selected as a homogenous sample out of about a 100-member population based on nelson language proficiency test. then, their grammar ability was measured based ...

this study explores the effect of online annotations via interactive white boards (iwbs) on reading comprehension of iranian efl learners. to this aim, 60 students from a language institute were selected as homogeneous based on their performance on oxford placement test (2014).then, they were randomly assigned to 3 experimental groups of 20, and subsequently exposed to the research treatment af...

Access to the internet is easier and faster than ever, forcing most people around globe adopt a web-based lifestyle. This generates tons of online footprint data, which feeds digital systems leads massive information abundance. To address this issue, people, especially teens, who are social media users, need develop certain skills use these platforms constructively. According recent evidence, l...

This paper reports the outcome of a quasi-longitudinal investigation into the effects on students’ performance of integrating technology facilitated learning (TFL) using MS Excel into the business statistics syllabus of a tourism management programme. By varying the magnitude of TFL applied in the syllabus of the subject across four consecutive cohorts, the impact on the students’ performance w...

We introduce a method for automatically selecting the path, or syllabus, that a neural network follows through a curriculum so as to maximise learning efficiency. A measure of the amount that the network learns from each data sample is provided as a reward signal to a nonstationary multiarmed bandit algorithm, which then determines a stochastic syllabus. We consider a range of signals derived f...