The present study intended to evaluate EFL students' performance on a traditional method of writing assessment in comparison to an alternative assessment technique by taking into account the effects of teacher and peer feedback. Moreover, the attitudes of the participants regarding assessment procedures and activities were focused in this study. To this end, thirty male and female language lear...

Reading has always been a challenging task especially for struggling learners of English as second language (ESL). Readers' theatre used class instruction approach to enable become innovative and active participants in the reading class. During instruction, teachers use multiple strategies such modeling accuracy, main idea group reading, adapting scripts, discussion. Using qualitative approach,...

The present study aimed to examine and compare the impact of teaching economic terms through etymological elaboration with three more conventional methods of vocabulary instruction in ESP courses in Iran, that is, teaching through contextual definitions, L1 translation, and implicit instruction on the learners' general comprehension of economic texts and their understanding of author's opinion....

It is widely recognized that 21st-century college graduates around the world need strong communication skills to fulfill their roles as professionals and contributing members of their local, national, and global communities. Yet, studies continue to report that colleges are falling short in this important educational area [Hor05, IfM08, Wei09]. In regions like Europe that don’t have a tradition...

This essay focuses on how video games both highlight our traditional assumptions about reading and writing and suggest alternative paradigms that combine the new and the traditional: • Play. Video games reveal how pleasure and desire are inherent to the reading and writing process. This dimension of gaming helps explain why video games can produce resistance in terms of approaches to writing in...