Teaching conversation skills is a difficult task for teachers and requires careful attention when selecting the textbook that best suits learners' needs interests in addition to their different learning dispositions. This study proposes system analyzing content of English second-year undergraduate students An-Najah National University according five major rubrics: topic consistency, frequen...

this study evaluated 2 elt textbooks (four corners, book 2 and four cornersbook 3) drawing on bloom’s revised taxonomy (brt); it examined the extent towhich these elt textbooks could demonstrate the 6 cognitive categories of the brt(i.e., remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating) intheir activities. to this end, content analysis was done to obtain the frequency ...

Togetherness of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) has been the subject of many recent studies in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and English as a Second Language (ESL) domain. Few studies, however, have addressed the impact of TBLT on ESP learners’ linguistic production. This study aimed at investigating the impact of task-based teaching on ESP lear...

Task-based language teaching, which requires learners to transact tasks resembling their real life language needs, demands language learners to perform planning at different stages of their learning. Since various types of tasks can be used in task-based instruction, the present study examined the effect of task types and various participatory structures during pre-task planning on the quality ...

Very few datasets have been released for the evaluation of diagnosis coding with the International Classification of Diseases, and only one so far in a language other than English. This paper describes a large-scale dataset prepared from French death certificates, and the problems which needed to be solved to turn it into a dataset suitable for the application of machine learning and natural la...

In the realm of second language acquisition (SLA), task-based language teaching (TBLT) and input enhancement (IE) have been the focus of a great number of studies. However, the idea of investigating the effects of focus on form instruction through input-enhanced tasks along with pre-task planning time as one of the features of task-based language teaching has been rarely explored in the field o...

This article aims to analyse the task instruction of speaking tasks in an English student’s book for grade X that Balitbang Kemdikbud publishes. As first edition textbook, some inaccuracies might be found especially related instruction. is descriptive research with checklist evaluation as instrument research. The consists six sub-indicators. Four evaluators, teachers who use book, fulfilled eva...