Developing an Instructional Media of English General Purpose Through Android Based

Developing EFL Learners' Oral Proficiency through Animation-based Instruction of English Formulaic Sequences

The current pretest-posttest quasi-experimental study attempts, firstly, to probe the effects of teaching formulaic sequences (FSs) on the second or foreign language (L2)  learners' oral proficiency improvement and secondly, to examine whether teaching FSs through different resources (i.e. animation vs. text-based readings) have any differentially influential effects in augmenting L2  l...

Developing and validating an instructional design model based on mental model theory

Abstract: This research has been done to develop and validate an instructional design model based on mental model theory. Based on mental model theory human being can do reasoning and problem solving through mental models. The main purpose of this model is to help pupils construct mental models, gain expertise and promote problem solving. In order to develop this model and response to research ...

An Exploratory Study of Teacher Efficacy Doubts in English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP) and English for General Purpose (EGP) Instruction

While teachers’ confidence in their abilities is a crucial asset in teachers’ professionalism and their identity development, their efficacy doubts are also considered useful. Given the diversity of English Language Teaching (ELT) contexts, this paper probes the dynamic nature of efficacy doubts the teachers face and are expected to resolve in English for General Purposes (EGP) and English for ...

Improving English Pronunciation: An Automated Instructional Approach

This paper describes an experiment in which groups of children attempted to improve their English pronunciation using an English-language learning software, some English alms, and a speech-to-text software engine. The experiment was designed to examine two hypotheses. The arst is that speechto-text software, trained in an appropriate voice, can act as an evaluator of accent and clarity of speec...

CADMOS: an approach to developing Web-based instructional systems