The present study examined whether linguistic cognitive control skills were related to non-linguistic cognitive control skills in monolingual children (Study 1) and in bilingual children from low socio-economic status (SES) backgrounds (Study 2). Linguistic inhibitory control was measured using a grammaticality judgment (GJ) task in which children judged the grammaticality of sentences while ig...

1 H.L Jian, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Cheng Kung University, No. 1, Ta Hsueh Road, Tainan City 70101, Taiwan 2 F. E. Sandnes, Oslo University College, Faculty of Engineering, Cort Adelers gate 30, N-0254 Oslo, Norway, [email protected] Abstract  The cultivation of writing skills is often absent from the syllabus of engineering programmes, despite engineers’ apparent ex...

In English, there are four skills that should be mastered, they are: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Among the language skills, speaking skill seems one of most important allows us to communicate with others express our thoughts feelings. However, this is also considered difficult learning process. Many students can get good marks in writing exams but find it fully their English. The...

This study examines the potential connections among learners’ willingness to communicate (WTC) in English, their perceptions of autonomy-supportive teaching and two individual difference variables, i.e. motivation and English speaking self-efficacy. Two hundred and five Iranian EFL learners responded to four questionnaires. The data obtained from the collected instruments were...

EAP courses for various disciplines are designed as a conduit between academic research and practical applications (Paltridge & Starfield, 2013, p. 175). On the other hand, one of the main missions of ESP practitioners is to prepare learners for realities of English on the job (Paltridge & Starfield, 2013, p. 185). This study aimed to provide a profile of target professional English needs of Ir...

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...

Today, international communication plays a vital role for facing the global challenges and English as Lingua Franca is quite helpful to serve purpose of with people from different countries. In pesantren world, very essential teach “English-Tren” can be way asssisting santri develop santris’ speaking skill. Pesantren, branch Specific Purposes (ESP), designed meet target Pesantren in improving S...

the applicability of second language instruction to various situations including academic settings provides great opportunities for students and researchers to access fresh sources of knowledge. this is extended to the majority of iranian students receiving courses such as english for specific purposes (esp) and english for academic purposes (eap) who may not find instruction compatible with th...

The main goal of this research is to develop learning method which can improve the speaking skills students at Management Program by implementing video recording tasks. This Research and Development (RD) employing ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation) Model. respondents in study were 30 who took part English I subject Program. instruments used evaluation sheet, quest...