Literature is replete with the studies focusing on the role of vocabulary knowledge in second language receptive skills. However, the relationship between the aspects of vocabulary knowledge and productive skills in general, and the speaking performance in particular has remained scanty in the related literature. This paper examined the relationship between knowledge of L2 vocabulary size at di...

This study investigated the professional identity construction of NNESTs (Non-native English-speaking teachers) in Taiwan. The research paradigm was rooted poststructuralism, which emphasizes subjectivity and exhibits multiple, unstable, non-linear properties inquiry. Participants comprised two male female in-service English teachers from public private senior high schools, whose teaching exper...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects EBS AI PengTalk when it used in a public elementary English class. This research focused on development school learners’ speaking ability as well their attitude change learning with PengTalk. To answer these questions, 45 students Gangwon province participated case study. findings revealed follows. First, showed improvement speaking. mean ...

Though revising the existing syllabus is part of Ethiopian education system, study implementations notions attracts a few researchers’ interests. Therefore, this investigates teachers’ practices teaching speaking and compares them with principles Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), underlying approach new syllabus. It also explores rationalizations their factors that influence speaking. To a...

THE PRESENT STUDY INTRODUCES A NOVEL TOOL FOR ASSESSING MUSICAL ABILITIES IN CHILDREN: The Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Musical Abilities (MBEMA). The battery, which comprises tests of memory, scale, contour, interval, and rhythm, was administered to 245 children in Montreal and 91 in Beijing (Experiment 1), and an abbreviated version was administered to an additional 85 children in Montre...

over the recent years, the study of language learning strategies has received much attention worldwide in general, and in iran in particular. many scholars have tried to investigate the function of language learning strategies in efl learning and teaching. not enough attention, however, has been paid to language skills, especially speaking skill, in iran. therefore, the present study aimed at s...