Using two-stage surveys, this study investigates 145 China’s English major students’ business communication learning needs, the effectiveness of task-based approach, and how teachers improve approach in courses. The results showed that students had greater needs output skills speaking, translation interpreting than other skills. They expressed specific developing reading, writing, speaking list...

Listening conditions affect bilinguals’ speech perception, but relatively little is known about the effect of the combination of several degrading listening conditions. We studied the combined effect of speech rate and background noise on bilinguals’ speech perception in their L1 and L2. Speech perception of twenty Israeli university students, native speakers of Arabic (L1), with Hebrew as L2, ...

An important area of development for second language (L2) students is learning how to share ideas with an audience through writing. Some researchers suggest that writing is a primary language skill that holds greater challenges for L2 learners than speaking, listening, or reading (Bell & Burnaby, 1984; Bialystok, 1978; Brown & Yule, 1983; Nunan, 1989; White, 1981). Writing skills are especially...

Despite the growing interest in online learning over past years, Indonesian students had to adjust interactions. Thus, students, general, still needed be thoroughly instilled this mode due various challenges. This qualitative research aimed discover most difficult English skills during from students’ perspectives. utilized a survey design rank complex skills; Writing, Speaking, Listening, and R...

assessment of communication skills level among medical college students: verbal, listening, and feedback skills     barati m [1] , moeini b [2] *, samavati a [3] , salehi o [4]     received: 23 oct, 2011 accepted: 19 jan, 2012     abstract   background & aims: communication skills are among the most important characteristics that a medical student requires. since, communications skills have not...

The present study explores the improvement in speaking skill as compared to listening EFL traditional classrooms post COVID-19. In this context, grades of 168 female students at intermediate level department English language, faculty languages and translation, King Khalid University were analyzed. A comparative analysis data both exams was conducted find out gap between skills. gathered then an...

EAP courses for various disciplines are designed as a conduit between academic research and practical applications (Paltridge & Starfield, 2013, p. 175). On the other hand, one of the main missions of ESP practitioners is to prepare learners for realities of English on the job (Paltridge & Starfield, 2013, p. 185). This study aimed to provide a profile of target professional English needs of Ir...

Twenty-nine English language activities were implemented on a touch-tablet computer. Some activities were focused on a single skill (e.g. reading or speaking), while others involved several integrated skills (e.g. listening and writing). Materials were presented in several modalities, including speech only, speech with figure, silent video, text, speech with text, and speech with text and figur...