This article introduces an approach to creative media literacy for world issues (WIs) such as Covid-19. In so doing, the integrates four positions on discourse and terrible facets of globalization in context critical analysis (CDA). The objectivist position deals with WIs neutral shared among humanity distributed through English international language educational media. ideologist treats relati...

To acquire a language, learners need to be skillful at the four skills namely: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Among them, writing is usually considered complex skill learn. This study aimed investigate second-year English majored students’ perception of essay problems encountered solutions overcome these problems. The participants this are 44 second year students public university in...

In Catalonia (Spain), each university is required by law to offer lecturers a learning framework. This requirement is met by specialized centers: at our technical university, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) this center is the Institute for Education Sciences (ICE), to which the authors of this article belong. This institute offers training to both new and senior lecturers. This train...

This study was designed to examine EFL student writers majoring in English as a foreign language at university level in Iran to describe their vocabulary related problems and the strategies they used to overcome these problems. Thirty EFL students were given a writing task for think-aloud composing. The resulting protocols were coded and analysed. The data were examined in relation to vocabular...

This study aims at exploring the lectures’ way to develop EFL materials; strategies for developing and challenges in ELT Material. was conducted English Education Department of three different universities namely STKIP Paracendekia Sumbawa, Makassar State University, Halu Oleo University. In collecting data, researchers used narrative case design. The instrument this themselves. result showed t...

It is believed that, motivation can affect all aspects of life. As it self-evident in the literature, has an enormous impact on teaching and learning EFL. The aim this paper to find out whether students are motivated learn EFL or not, what type do they have; instrumental integrative motivation? This study been conducted context Kurdish at University Halabja, English Language Department. problem...

The analysis of current EFL (English as a Foreign Language) education and literature indicates that most EFL practices can be characterised as traditional language learning settings in which teachers direct the learning process, and students are then assumed as passive receptors of knowledge. Furthermore, EFL learning has also been criticised as an in-class-only learning practice due to the rar...

A significant amount of contribution to pragmatics research comes from cross-cultural and developmental pragmatic studies with L2 learners in focus; however, despite broad interest in such analyses, the role of lecturers has been relatively ignored. As the lectures’ perceptions/opinions of L2 learners’ e-mail requests are important, L2 learners must become familiar with their lecturers’...