Feminist pedagogy is a teaching practice, philosophy and process that seeks to confront deconstruct oppressive power structures both within outside of the classroom using gendered lens. As Women’s Studies departments continue grow in many universities, feminist seems be gaining popularity as an approach engaging students liberatory practices. However, language (feminist second learning context)...

This study examines the effect of Form-Focused Instruction (FFI) on the learning of weak forms in L2 pronunciation pedagogy. FFI treatment was designed to encourage learners to notice the gap of the target pronunciation, negotiate its phonetic form, and correct the output by themselves. Results of the treatment were compared with the non-FFI treatment involving sixty elementary to low intermedi...

Although story mapping strategy has been shown to be beneficial in many reading comprehension classes, the benefits of this technique have not been thoroughly investigated in L2 writing research. The small number of previous studies (e.g., Li, 2007; Brunner, 2010) have found the potential benefits of using story mapping strategy on students’ writing performance, but they did not focus on differ...

English and Chinese have stark differences in both segmental and suprasegmental features. In particular, for Chinese learners of English as a secondary language (L2), there are expected deviations in the production of English prosody as a result of transfer of linguistic characteristics from their mother tongue. We have designed, collected and annotated a corpus to elicit suprasegmental informa...

this study was an attempt to explore the role that the increased perceptual saliency of l2 input features or output flaws and hereby promoting l2 learners’ noticing (through planned instructional activities) can play in the learners’ use of correct english intonation patterns. the participants were 80 iranian efl students attending four intact classes, two low-intermediate and two upper-interme...

this study aimed at providing learners with an opportunity not only to bring together their core and disciplinary knowledge to acquire major skills of learning english as a foreign language (efl), and the intellectual challenge of these issues at the interface of media, language and religion, but also help the materials generators to produce suitable types of content to be delivered through the...

While the advantages of cooperative learning activities have been extensively acknowledged in L2 literature, this type of pedagogy has not received due attention in the Iranian EFL context. Indeed, the traditional reading method still dominates in most Iranian EFL university classes even though it fails to meet its main objective which is training competent EFL readers. In an attempt to address...

Wedding invitations (WIs), as a uniquely socially and culturally constructed genre, provide a distinct opportunity  to  compare  the  sociocultural values of different  speech  communities  as reflected  in  the  textual  content  and  organization  of  the  different  moves.  Students  can  be exposed  to  this  genre  and  its  different moves  using  a  genre-based  pedagogy. Genre-based ped...

This study aimed to investigate the factors that may impact Saudi English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ willingness communicate (WTC) in an extramural digital (ED) environment. To do this, 50 EFL learners from different secondary schools were interviewed. The collected data analysed using thematic analysis. findings of this showed there are three variables affecting second (L2) WTC ED c...