The main purpose of this study is to present role-playing techniques as a means promote oral expression in eighth, ninth and tenth grade students public school Cañar-Ecuador. This research demonstrates the advantages using technique improve skills, well student's perceptions about its use. Both quantitative qualitative instruments were applied. researcher employed pre- post-tests, surveys, clas...

TOEFL iBT has turned recently heads to the impacts language tests can have on language learning. Since error analysis-based instruction has gained a new life with the advent of the computer analysis of the learner’s language, the researchers of this study embarked on examining a sample of integrated and independent writing tasks of 45 Iranian TOEFL iBT candidates in order to identify and classi...

The goal of the present study was to investigate English language teacher candidates’ Inner Circle variety (i.e., British and American English) preferences through their use in pronunciation, vocabulary, spelling, grammar examine individuals’ opinions on factors affecting adoption context Turkey. Following adaption instrument employed, data garnered from 158 pre-service teachers enrolled an edu...

Does tuning to one's native language explain the "sensitive period" for language learning? We explore the idea that tuning to (or becoming more selective for) the properties of one's native-language could result in being less open (or plastic) for tuning to the properties of a new language. To explore how this might lead to the sensitive period for grammar learning, we ask if tuning to an earli...