Research into attitudes and learning preferences of Korean second-language learners has, until recently, been carried out mostly in ESL environments, and has yielded a particular profile of the Korean learner abroad. For learners who remain in their mother country, however, such profiles are inadequate descriptors of what and how Asian EFL students learn. This study therefore set out to make a ...

This study examined the language learning and motivational effects of a video project, including students’ perceptions of the processes, and the impact of peer evaluations. Forty-three intermediate EFL learners in Taiwan communicated their thoughts in multimodal formats by producing a video that involved searching online materials and integrating music and pictures to illustrate their ideas. Re...

This comparative study aims to discover and demonstrate the potential division in preferences for, and use of, AmE and BrE vocabulary by examining the possible influence of variety shift, motivation, gender, and language contact among 181 EFL students in one upper secondary school and one university in Sweden. Accordingly, the material, a questionnaire, was distributed to probe the preferences ...

This article explores the possibility of critical analysis of terrorist suicide bomb attacks in an EFL critical literacy course. It reports on a part of a broader study that explored how 24 EFL high school Lebanese students were engaged in critical literacy activities during the whole 2013-2014 academic year. Most participants belonged to Lebanese communities that support Hezbollah, a Lebanese ...

this study aimed at investigating the english textese of iranian efl learners by scrutinizing the linguistic features through a qualitative design. in doing so, 700 messages were collected from 43 ma iranian efl learners of both genders. the features were categorized and analyzed calculating the frequency and percentage. the findings of the study showed that iranian efl students used different ...

With the availability of Web 2.0 technologies, blogs have become useful and attractive tools for teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in their writing classes. Learners do not need to understand HTML in order to construct blogs, and the appearance and content can be facilitated via the use of photos, music, and video files (Vurdien, 2013). To provide an authentic and motivating writi...

The following list contains links to descriptions and contact information for a number of international student associations. Many of these organizations also invite international scholars to join. For more student organizations, visit Maize Pages [1], the University of Michigan's Directory of Student Organizations. Browsing categories such as Cultural/Ethnic or Religious/Spiritual (Hindu Stude...

The following list contains links to descriptions and contact information for a number of international student associations. Many of these organizations also invite international scholars to join. For more student organizations, visit Maize Pages [1], the University of Michigan's Directory of Student Organizations. Browsing categories such as Cultural/Ethnic or Religious/Spiritual (Hindu Stude...

The following list contains links to descriptions and contact information for a number of international student associations. Many of these organizations also invite international scholars to join. For more student organizations, visit Maize Pages [1], the University of Michigan's Directory of Student Organizations. Browsing categories such as Cultural/Ethnic or Religious/Spiritual (Hindu Stude...

The following list contains links to descriptions and contact information for a number of international student associations. Many of these organizations also invite international scholars to join. For more student organizations, visit Maize Pages [1], the University of Michigan's Directory of Student Organizations. Browsing categories such as Cultural/Ethnic or Religious/Spiritual (Hindu Stude...