This paper reports on how top EFL students foster oral communication strategies (OCSs) throughout their 4-year English program at the university level. It is a cross-sectional study of 40 EFL learners enrolled in the Department of English, Faculty of Education, Taiz University, Yemen. Data were collected through a questionnaire based on Oxford’s Strategy inventory for language learning (SILL). ...

The current study aimed at investigating the academic learning needs of Iranian undergraduate students of English Language and Literature from the perspective of 320 stakeholders including undergraduate students (n = 252), graduates (n = 51), English literature instructors (n = 7), and language instructors (n = 10). To this aim, a triangulation of the most important data collection instruments ...

Abstract Prior work on teachers’ mathematical knowledge has contributed to our understanding of the important role in teaching and learning. However, one aspect received little attention: strategic competence for word problems. Adapting from most comprehensive characterizations mathematics learning (NRC, 2001), we argue that also includes competence, which consists devising a valid solution str...

<div><p class="Els-history-head">Strategic leadership of the Indonesian Ministry Defense through its main competencies, namely conceptual, interpersonal, and technical, becomes an effective instrument in implementing defense diplomacy policies for modernization Military's Main Equipment Weapon Systems (Alat Utama Sistem Persenjataan or Alutsista). This study aims to analyze strategi...

Executives in large global corporations are faced with a number of non-alternative decision parameters determining the strategic positioning of their IT units. These parameters include organizational structures, competence development and distribution among central and local levels, goal setting and type of value contributed to the organization. Although the existing body of research addresses ...

The focus of this study is on the use of organizational competencies and backcasting in competitive analysis to improve the understanding of the strategic directions and actions of a firm that may be a competitor or a collaborator. Intended for use as a competitive weapon, this technique is formulated to assess the distinct organizational competencies a firm is exploiting. This we advocate in o...

second language  learners often develop grammatical competence in the absence of concomitant pragmatic competence (kasper & roever, 2005) and the exact nature of the relationship between the two competences is still indistinct and in need of inquiries ( bardovi-harlig, 1999; khatib & ahmadisafa, 2011). this study is a partial attempt to address the lacuna and aims to see if any relation...

The alignment of business and information technology (IT) strategies is an important and enduring theoretical challenge for the information systems discipline, remaining a top issue in practice over the past 20 years. Multi-business organizations (MBOs) present a particular alignment challenge because business strategies are developed at the corporate level, within individual strategic business...