English reading, as an important part of high school teaching, plays a great role in teaching. 
 Therefore, teachers should pay attention to the cultivation students’ reading ability. In actual method cultivate ability is relatively single, mainly through text, which leads unsatisfactory effect. The reason for this situation that do not take into account differences between students, and o...

Interlanguage pragmatics, as an inseparable part of communicative competence, has been emphasized as an ultimate objective in language learning. This study explored the perceptions of Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) students regarding interlanguage pragmatics and the impact of textbooks tasks on shaping their pragmatic competence. To accomplish this objective, 137 senior EFL student...

In senior high school English teaching, students make various errors in the process of learning English, and these are a way for learners to test their assumptions about nature language they have learnt. Therefore, by analyzing students’ through error analysis, we can get feedback, effectively understand condition, check teaching effect, improve method, then reduce or avoid making mistakes so a...

To know the age effects in foreign language learning for children in China, we made both qualitative survey on the English teachers, the students and their parents by means of questionnaire; and quantitative survey on the students’ scores from junior 1 to senior 2 (5 years) in the secondary school by analyses between those (over 30 students) who had learned English for 3 years in the elementary...

This study aimed at investigating the effects of grammatical error correction on EFL learners’ accuracy. Twenty-two male and female senior students were chosen randomly to respond to a questionnaire investigating their beliefs about immediate grammatical error correction.  Actually, the study was conducted in order to answer this question: what is the effect of grammatical error feedback on stu...

How stable is the lexicon for perceptual experiences? this article presents results on how the trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea talk about color and taste and whether this has changed over the years. comparing the results of research on color terms conducted in 1983 with data collected in 2008 revealed that many English color terms have been integrated into the Kilivila lexicon. Members ...

David Graddol talks to three people with very different professional relationships to global English: Tom McArthur, Editor of English Today and the Oxford Companion to the English Language, David Flack, Senior Creative Director of MTV Asia, and Julian Amey, Director General of Canning House. In these three interviews, Tom McArthur takes a global view of English, David Flack assesses English in ...