In China, English, as an important tool for self-expression and mutual communication, is paid great attention to all over the country and College English has become a compulsory course at all colleges and universities. English writing is one of the most important language skills for college students. For a long time, English writing has been the throe throat for college students, which manifest...

The present study has been conducted with the purpose of exploring the relationship between EDBI staff's General English proficiency and their technical English Writing as well as the way each ESBP and GE courses affect their writing skill. The kind of the study is quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test, being conducted among EDBI staff in Tehran Branches and Headquarters. In data colle...

Research of discourse analysis and pragmatics suggests that English language assumes a three-part feature in communication: locution, illocution, and perlocution. Therefore, the teaching of communicative English language should follow the same pattern. But for years, the classroom teaching as well as the teaching materials in China focuses mainly on locution, but ignores the other two aspects, ...

Technology utilization in distance education has demonstrated its significance in the transfer of knowledge for both the instructors and the learners. This is also made possible through the use of the Internet which helps change the traditional teaching approaches into more modern methods when integrated with the pedagogical instruction. Mobile devices together with other forms of technology-ba...

− A new system of curriculum evaluation of formative assessment has been established in secondary education system in China for seven years. Attention has been given to teaching and learning as a meaning making interactive process rather than summative result of assessment. In the English teaching area, instead of using solely summative assessment, teachers are asked to give students formative ...

Teaching English has become a major necessity for developing areas in Asian countries due to globalization. The general purpose of this paper is to discuss the problems related with the novel tendency of teaching English for Asian educational system. This paper discusses the requirements of educational system in Asia for teaching English as well as on the mode of training English applicable ski...