a term in one language rarely has an absolute synonymous meaning in the same language; besides, it rarely has an equivalent meaning in an l2. english synonyms of seeing and hearing are particularly grammatically and semantically different. frame semantics is a good tool for discovering differences between synonymous words in l2 and differences between supposed l1 and l2 equivalents. vocabulary ...

abstract literature review indicates that an effective and good teacher has an important role in students' performances and their success. pivotal roles of teachers may affect students’ attitudes and motivations to language learning. improving the field of foreign language teaching and learning without improving the qualities of efl teachers seems impossible. this attempt, at first hand, r...

english is an important language in hong kong, an international city located on the southern coast of the people’s republic of china that, for over 150 years to 1997, was a british colony. this paper describes and analyses changes in teaching methodologies in the english language curriculum formally proposed for hong kong junior secondary schools from 1975 to the present day, to study how the c...

This research aims to explore how teachers implement multicultural-based English language teaching in a institution and students' views of teachers' implementation teaching. is qualitative with case study design. In collecting the data, researcher used direct observation by observing learning processes find implementing semi-structured interviews views. There are two main points findings this s...

A community of practice may shape and reshape the identity of members of the community through providing them with situated learning or learning environment. This study, therefore, is to clarify the salient learning-based features of the language teaching community of practice that might formulate the identity of language teachers. To this end, the study examined how learning situations in two ...

This book documents how teachers, working in school foreign language learning contexts and teaching beginner learners of languages other than English, learn about use tasks. It first presents a pedagogically researched account teachers about, design evaluate tasks, after being introduced to TBLT during an in-service programme. The authors then go into classrooms explore ways which continue as p...