The present study investigated the time attitudes (TAs) of EFL learners and their willingness preference to share TAs with peers instructors. Limited research has explored —a distinct meaningful part temporal perspective that encompasses positive negative feelings about past, present, future experiences English language learning. Participants were 229 students technical administrative diploma p...

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the cultural dimension of foreign language education, and teachers today are expected to promote the acquisition of intercultural competence in their learners. Thus, the present study aimed to investigate the opinions and attitudes of Iranian teachers of English on intercultural competence teaching and to see how and to what extent these opin...

every language involves friendly and polite as well as hostile and impolite situationsin which language users have to use the context-appropriate language. however,unlike politeness which has generated a great number of studies, few studies havebeen conducted on impoliteness especially in efl contexts. the present study aimedto see whether language learners and teachers hold the same idea conce...

task-based language teaching (tblt) has been considered as an effective language teaching methodology. however, its applicability for lower-proficiency learners in efl contexts has not been adequately justified. moreover, the possible mediating effect of the experiential learning styles on academic listening tblt has not been targeted in the literature, a gap that this study attempts to fill. t...

The purpose of this study is to elicit problem causing word stress patterns for Turkish EFL (English as a foreign language) learners and investigate whether Internet-based pronunciation lesson is superior to traditional pronunciation lesson in terms of enhancing Turkish EFL learners’ accurate production of stressed syllables in English words. A pre-post test design with two groups of Turkish EF...

The use of different literary texts in language learning and teaching was undertaken many research articles, reviews, dissertations. Several studies have indicated the effectiveness literature learning. One used to teach a foreign or second is graded readers which are simplified versions original texts. This qualitative case study intends investigate tertiary EFL learners’ attitudes towards Par...

As most traditional classroom environments in English as Foreign Language (EFL) still restrict learners’ collaboration and interaction in college writing classes, today, the majority of EFL learners are accessing Social Networking Sites (SNSs) as online communities of practice (CoPs) for adopting informal collaborative learning as a way of practicing English beyond the classroom. This study aim...

The present study investigates the prosodic differences of English mild imperative sentences between native American English speakers and Chinese EFL (learning English as foreign language) learners within the framework of AM Theory. The study found out that prosodic native speakers and Chinese EFL learners exhibit the following prosodic differences: (i) phonological patterns of sentence-stress ...