The promotion of standard languages as mediums instruction well the worldwide spread and popularity English have generated various issues related to attitudes towards ideologies underpinning different languages, language practices, teaching learning in contexts. With English-as-a-Medium-of-Instruction (EMI) policy Chinese higher education, it is worthwhile investigate how multilingual speakers ...

Teaching conversation skills is a difficult task for teachers and requires careful attention when selecting the textbook that best suits learners' needs interests in addition to their different learning dispositions. This study proposes system analyzing content of English second-year undergraduate students An-Najah National University according five major rubrics: topic consistency, frequen...

Introducing effective approaches and providing equal opportunities for all language learners at any level of language knowledge to learn successfully seems to be an asset. In this study, the role of employing Partnership Approach (PA) to teach speaking to undergraduate EFL students through Streaming/Homogeneous-Grouping of the learners in Mixed-Ability classrooms was examined. A quasi-experimen...

We sought to advance understanding of the processes underlying the efficacy of exposure therapy and particularly the phenomenon of return of fear (ROF) following treatment by drawing on a social psychological view of phobias as attitudes. Specifically, a dual process theory of attitude-related behavior predicts that a positive response to exposure therapy may reflect change in either the automa...

This study aimed to investigate the impact of pre-speaking activities on Iranian intermediate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ oral performance. The study followed a quasi-experimental design in which subjects of the study were non-randomly selected. Oxford Placement Test (OPT) was used to select 100 intermediate EFL learners as the main sample. Then they were divided randomly into...

This study assessed outcomes in stuttering intervention across three service delivery models: direct, hybrid, and telepractice for two 11-year old children who stutter. The goal of the study was to investigate whether short-term goals were maintained through the telepractice sessions. The Stuttering Severity Instrument, Fourth Edition (SSI-4) was administered to each child before and after each...

This article demonstrates an ESP lesson plan to teach English listening and speaking for 49 EFL college students in hospitality fields, i.e. Western Culinary Arts and Bakery Technology and Management in Taiwan. This ESP class is content-based, featuring a combination of language-oriented, skills-oriented and learning-oriented approaches to ESP syllabus design. The syllabus aims at reaching sati...

Role-plays provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate how to use English in real life situations and make them focus more on communication than on grammar. Oral presentations like conversations are a great way for students to practice their English skills. Therefore, this paper makes an attempt to investigate whether teaching conversation through role play affects the students’ speaki...

Visual arts capacitate the realisation of children’s creative potential from the early age. This potential is visible through research activities of play with the use of different materials and techniques; it develops children’s visual-spatial intelligence, imagination, aesthetic perception and specific artisticexpressive abilities. Great importance for the development of children’s creativity ...