Because of the importance of students’ and teachers’ implicit beliefs about intelligence, we designed a study to determine: (a) How is intelligence defined—as a malleable or fixed entity—in introductory educational psychology textbooks? and (b) To what extent are classroom applications of intelligence topics included in the textbooks? We conducted a content analysis of the intelligence topics p...

The English writing skills of engineering students in India is a tricky proposition. term- end university exams majorly test their ability but the focus more on oral communication to do well group discussions and interviews get placed. To add this, pressure domain subjects lack awareness about real need at workplace higher education contribute both neglect poor standard writing. University cour...

The traditional college student of today is part of the Net Generation who has been raised in an era of instant access. Their communication and learning is complemented by the Internet, a major influence on this cohort. The regular method of contact is text messaging, instant messaging and cell phones. Learning methods for the Net Generation include Internet tools such as Web-CT, Blackboard, on...

The study highlights 20-year experience of organizing international student conferences in foreign languages as a framework for holistic development academic communication skills. Conventional ESP syllabi suggest passive learning strategies, which replicate those general English courses. Students are offered pedagogic materials aim at reiterating the knowledge that instructors and textbooks pro...

Immoderate smart phone usage usually makes the students addicted to it and spends less time reading lecture notes and textbooks. This study aims to determine university students' usage of smart phones and perceived rejection of paper books in an EFL context. The study collected data through a 20-item structured questionnaire consisting of the general characteristics, the number and hours of gen...

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...