This article discusses five college students’ experiences in a simulated fullimmersion, Arabic-speaking language village and the impact of that experience on learners’ beliefs about the power of collaborative learning, the critical importance of cultural awareness, the efficacy of learning languages within a functioning community of practice, and the utility of role play and experiential learni...

This research aims at describing the language program based on bī'ah lughawiyah as an Arabic-language medium in improving ability of Arabic speaking skills (mahārah kalām) undertaken by PUSDIKLAT UNIDA Gontor Pesantren Tahfizhul Qur'an SahabatQu, Deresan, Yogyakarta. The main problem is related to strategy developing environment. To answer this question, method used descriptive qualitative. Res...

this study was an attempt to investigate the relationship between teachers' personality type (feeling vs. thinking) and speaking skill of pre- intermediate efl students in iranian context. twelve teachers and forty eight students from a local language institute participated in the study. the myers briggs type indicator (mbti), an instrument based on jung’s personality theory, was taken from tea...

This study was set out to shed light on the efficacy of pushed output directed by scaffolding on 41 (24 female and 17 male) upper-intermediate EFL learners’ speaking fluency and accuracy. A public version of IELTS speaking test was held to measure learners’ entrance behavior. Then, they were randomly assigned into symmetrical, asymmetrical, and control group. The experimental and control groups...

The purpose of the study is to explore and describe how to implement a pedagogical ASR-based intelligent computer-assisted speaking learning (iCASL) system to support adult learners with a private, flexible and individual learning environment to practice English pronunciation. The iCASL system integrates multiple levels of corrective feedback and allows learners to practice English speaking wit...

speaking is one of the most important skills to be developed and enhanced as means of effective communication. speaking skill is regarded one of the most difficult aspects of language learning. many language learners find it difficult to express themselves in spoken language. they are generally facing problems to use the foreign language to express their thoughts effectively. they stop talking ...

This study aimed to determine the differences in curriculum between two countries, namely Indonesia and Malaysia, their implementation, especially learning Arabic. In this case, Arabic used 2013 regulations or known as K13 (Kurikulum 2013), while Malaysia uses KSSR Standart Sekolah Rendah) KSSM Menengah) its implementation. The is a series of plans streamline teaching learning. set plans, objec...

This study investigated how awareness affected learners’ intake and production in relation to their cognitive styles. It is assumed that learners’ cognitive styles may affect their ability to notice particular features in the input and, consequently, their intake and production. Adult learners of English were exposed to four English structures through four sets of problem-solving tasks, followe...