In this paper we report our analysis of the similarities between webpages that are crawled from European academic websites, and comparison of their distribution in terms of the English language variety (native English vs English as a lingua franca) and their language family (based on the country’s official language). After building a corpus of university webpages, we selected a set of relevant ...

Phonics skills are considered to be the predictors of reading disability, which is off late viewed as a language based disorder. The aim of the present study is to compare the phonics skills of high and low academic achievers across Bengali and English. A checklist consisting of three parameters was developed in both the languages to assess phonics skills. A total of 42 normally developing bili...

The VersantTM English Test is a fully automated assessment of spoken English used by leading government agencies, academic institutions, and corporations throughout the world. Many organizations and institutions have leveraged the Versant test as a measurement tool for assessing improvement over time. This document provides empirical evidence showing that the Versant test is sensitive to gains ...

Reading academic and specialised texts in a foreign language is difficult process, support for making materials more linguistically accessible scarce. Approaches used English as Foreign Language (EFL) teaching could inform responses to this, EFL are routinely simplified make them comprehensible. However, there lack of research on the most method – intuitive text simplification. In this study, 2...

The internationalization of higher education in U.S. Colleges and Universities has raised issues concerning the performance of international students. Most of them speak English as a foreign language; therefore, this study is intended to analyze to which degree the level of English proficiency of an international student impacts his or her academic performance. This research is focused on the i...

We empirically evaluated three theoretical models—the threshold hypothesis, transfer theory, and time-on-task theory—for educatingEnglish language learners (ELLs), with a focus on the role of language factors in explaining achievement differences amongELLs. Participantswere 196 sixth graderswithSpanish languagebackgrounds who started learning English in kindergarten and then were continuously e...

presenting a brief description of bilingualism and its correlation with cognitive development and 3rd language learning, the present research primarily aims to compare the knowledge of english vocabulary and grammar in a sample of monolingual and bilingual high school students (fourth graders) of fars and khuzestan provinces in iran. to fulfill this objective, 448 monolingual and bilingual stud...

The present study investigated the effects of a self-monitoring strategy on web-based language learning. Both students’ academic performance and their motivational beliefs were investigated. The interaction between the use of a self-monitoring strategy and the level of learners’ English proficiency was also examined. A total of 99 college students who were enrolled in classes for Freshmen Engli...

English has become one of the most effective global medium of communication today. The significance of English is highly emphasized in many countries as it is now the medium of communication in international business and technology based trading industries. This paper present the results of an investigation that compares the performance in English courses of male and female students of a bachel...