This paper reports on a 1-year longitudinal study that aimed at investigating the relationship between intermediate EFL learners’ development of reading and writing proficiency while delineating a range of linguistic features present in a set of 30 reading comprehension texts and 350 written essays. Data (reading comprehension exam scores and written essays) were collected from a junior high sc...

_______________ A lack of reading quantity in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classrooms has remained one of the most serious problems faced by teachers of English in Japan. Although the extensive reading (ER) approach is regarded as having significant potential in addressing this problem, it is not used in many EFL classrooms. This study investigates the effect of a quasi-extensive reading...

One of the most prevailing difficulties I have faced as an English instructor is students’ dependence on teachers even though many language classes have been shifting from teachercentered to student-centered influenced by the communicative language teaching (CLT) approach. Class evaluations and needs analyses often reveal that many students expect every single one of their errors to be correcte...

The current article aims at investigating EFL university students’ attitudes towards the effect of implementing reader-response approach (Rosenblatt’s Transactional Theory) on developing their critical thinking. To this end, study adopted quantitative method data collection. A questionnaire was administrated to 30 undergraduate sophomore students Salahaddin University-Erbil / College Basic-Educ...

The number of colleges of osteopathic medicine (COMs), osteopathic medical students, and osteopathic physicians in practice has been consistently growing since the 1960s. In recent years, the growth of the profession has been exponential. Despite this growth, graduates of COMs are increasingly choosing allopathic residencies. The authors believe that this trend may stem from a lack of focus on ...

This study adds to the body of empirical knowledge regarding the use of music in the EFL classroom. This original investigation centered around the following question: Does listening repetition, song likeability, and/or song understandability influence learning environment perceptions, learning perceptions, and/or learning outcomes in Taiwanese EFL learners engaged in web-based music study? The...

Although language learning strategies (LLSs) received considerable amount of attention since 1970s, limited studies have focused on the use LLSs by ESL students especially EFL students. In order for educators to gain insight into approach through LLSs, further research should be conducted about within various contexts. The current study aims primarily investigate used Saudi female college in Ri...

English Foreign Language (EFL) teachers most frequently deal with question types in their interactions students. However, questioning is not only concerned type but also form and function. Therefore, this qualitative study aimed to examine the types, forms, functions of questions altogether raised by EFL as they interacted The researcher observed recorded two college-level teachers. Using conve...

This research investigated effects of task types on the acquisition of English voice onset time (VOT) by Japanese university students with a short-term but intensive exposure to academic English. The data were collected from 11 Japanese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) receiving English-medium instruction at a university level, 11 Japanese EFL learners enrolled in regular EFL cou...