English is the major foreign language taught at schools in Taiwan (Crawford, 2003; Su, 2000). It is also the most commonly studied foreign language and the language used for wider communication in business and scholarly exchange. It had been traditionally taught beginning at Year 7 until 2001 when the Nine-year Integrated Curriculum was implemented and English was introduced to the Grade 5 curr...

This study investigated the impact of oral pushed output on the learning and retention of English perfect tenses. During the study, a pre-test was administered to 22 freshmen majoring in English translation. The participants were randomly assigned to two groups. Then, for six sessions both groups received explicit instructions on English perfect tenses. Every session, the experimental group rec...

Critical Literacy (CL) has lately influenced English Language Teaching (ELT) in Brazil, mainly after the publication of National Guidelines for High School Teaching, and several practitioners have started to use CL perspectives their ELT contexts. Besides, Education been focus much research Brazil. Nonetheless, these alternative approaches not yet made way into testing assessment. This paper fo...

this study aims at investigating the linguistic representation of male and female social actors in the four corners 4 textbook, drawing on cda. more specifically, van leeuwen’s (1996) framework, which highlights the connection of linguistic and social practices, is used as the analytical framework to examine gendered social actors in this english language teaching (elt) textbook. to this end, c...

This paper presents a part of an on-going project that aims at developing an instrument to evaluate English language teaching textbooks, called the English Language Teaching (ELT) Textbook Evaluation Checklist. The present study sought to evaluate the validity, reliability and economy of the developed checklist. It also aimed to find out to what extent the users of the checklist were satisfied ...

The importance of digital literacy has grown significantly, making its integration into English language teaching (ELT) crucial. This study investigated the role ELT in promoting among students at Muhammadiyah University Mataram and identified their needs. Using a mixed-methods research design, data were collected from students’ need through questionnaires interviews, which assessed skills, tec...

English language teaching (ELT) in Iran has experienced a turbulent history reflecting an often dynamic context and changing attitudes toward English, yet framed within a discourse of tolerance rather than one of embrace, as this study is going to show. The discourse was much brighter before the Islamic Revolution and this study reveals that there were much fewer adverse policies toward the spr...