Data-driven learning (DDL) developed from corpus linguistics plays a pioneering role in the evolution of EFL teaching, allowing the learners to indentify and induce language rules by observing numerous real corpora concordances. With the guidance of new teaching notion advocated by College English Curriculum Requirements in China, DDL model has become the tendency for college English learners' ...

This case study is about an adult Japanese learner’s second language learning through her teacher’s recasts in an EFL classroom in Japan. We first examined by videotaping the class how recasts were provided in the theme-based EFL classroom. Then we investigated the relationship between the student’s awarenessof recast feedback and her L2 learning. Stimulated recallinterviews were used to elicit...

This study aims to contribute theoretically and practically the improvement of EFL teaching learning process. Speaking techniques discussed in this research are role play group discussion. The reason for researcher use both because them expose students communicate one another so that they expected be confident express their ideas. While cognitive styles used researh as parts style field depende...

In order to help our students learn English more effectively, we teachers of English need to place an equal emphasis both on designing suitable teaching materials and making use of effective teaching methodologies. Of the two types of teaching materials; namely authentic and non-authentic materials that are being used nowadays in schools and universities in most EFL countries, the use of the fo...

this study sought the relationship between short-term in-service development programs for efl teachers and their teaching practice in high schools. the objectives were to determine the relationship between: 1) the components of the programs for efl teachers and their practice in class, and 2) efl teachers’ perception of the programs and their practice in class. data were collected through quest...

Yu-Fen Yang, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology Wen-Ting Meng, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology Oftentimes, college students who learn English as a Foreign Language (EFL) provide their peers with incorrect and misleading feedback during text revision. To improve the effectiveness of peer feedback, this study examined the degree to which online feedback trai...

This article analyzes the emergence of a new stage of global capitalism, called informationalism, and its consequences for English language teaching, focusing on three critical issues. First, globalization will result in the further spread of English as an international language and a shift of authority to nonnative speakers and dialects. This change will call into question basic notions of lan...

The individualism-collectivism syndrome has considerable impact on many aspects of a society. Basedon theoretical frameworks, classroom observations, and teaching and learning experiences in ESL/EFLclassrooms, this study investigates the cultural orientations in L2 settings where classroom interactionand discourse, the goal of education, and the roles that teachers and students play...

There are many studies about nursing clinical settings and their problems, but the teaching style as a whole has not been widely studied. Therefore, this study aimed to explore nursing teachers' perceptions about teaching style in the clinical settings in Iran. A grounded theory approach was used to conduct this study. Fifteen nursing teachers were interviewed individually, 2006-2007. The inter...