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This article argues that the teaching of English as an international language (EIL) should be based on an entirely different set of assumptions than has typically informed English language teaching (ELT) pedagogy. To begin, several defining features of an international language are described. Because these features have altered the nature of English itself, the author maintains that the pedagog...

Computer technology has influenced the realm of language teaching and testing so drastically that no language teaching program could be imagined nowadays without the use digitized software and mul- timedia. This study aims at investigating Iranian EFL learners' performance on paper-based test com- pared with their performance on computer-based test while considering their attitudes towards the ...

Instructional settings (English as a second language (ESL) and English foreign (EFL)) may provide different opportunities for learners’ meaningful use. This qualitative study was designed to shed light on this issue. The data included multiple sources collected from sustained content gastronomy course taught in an American ESL Taiwanese EFL context. Findings revealed that various factors (e.g.,...

this study investigated the manifestation of bloom’s revised taxonomy (brt) in two series of young and adult teaching persian to speakers of other languages (tpsol) textbooks. to this end, the contents of the textbooks were analyzed based on a coding scheme. the results showed statistically significant differences between the different volumes of young learners’ series and between the two serie...

the global spread of english, co-occurring with globalization, has generated new views towards some issues in english language teaching, one of which being the place of home culture versus foreign language culture in english language classes. the following study aimed to compare the viewpoint of three groups, i.e. language teachers, language learners and parents regarding the role of home cultu...