While there is extensive literature on how classroom-based assessment (CBA) can be effectively put into practice, little known about its implementation in L2 contexts, especially the young English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learner context. This study endeavored to investigate teachers’ CBA practices and factors that might exert influences them. A purposive sample of three EFL teachers from tw...

The overarching aim of this study was to investigate EFL students’ challenges in English-medium business programmes from the perspectives both students and content teachers. English medium instruction (EMI) has been increasingly used higher education institutions as second/foreign language (ESL/EFL) contexts around world. Consequently, there a growing body research reporting experiences EMI tea...

This paper presents findings from an exploratory case study, with the purpose of illustrating how student teachers of English as a Second Language (ESL) in the United States and student teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Germany evaluated a blended learning course that focused on jointly creating Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) units via the Internet. This project enabled pa...

The qualitative study presented in this paper aimed to collect beliefs about learning and teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) from individual representatives of the generation frequently referred millennials. participants were 47 pre-service EFL trainee teachers four socio-cultural contexts: Finnish, Israeli, Polish, Spanish. Their voices have been considered because are dynamically re...

Determining the level of expiratory flow limitation (EFL) in critical mechanically ventilated patients is of clinical relevance for choosing appropriate respiratory treatment and/or pharmacological therapy. In many respiratory diseases, EFL arises from pathological changes in the mechanical properties of the bronchial tree. These properties cannot be evaluated using common lumped-parameter mode...

This paper presents the technical aspects, theoretical analysis, and comparisons of two new permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) grid-interfaced models named PMSG boost and PMSG rectifierinverter. The exact feedback linearization (EFL) control scheme is used for the effective design and stability analysis of the aforementioned models. The complexity of the EFL control laws is discussed...

Patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) often exhale along the same flow-volume curve during quiet breathing as they do during the forced expiratory vital capacity manoeuvre, and this has been taken as an indicator of expiratory flow limitation at rest (EFL(T)). Therefore, EFL(T), namely attainment of maximal expiratory flow during tidal expiration, occurs when an incr...

The purpose of the present study is to examine a) how lower-intermediate and upperintermediate level Turkish learners of English-as-a-foreign language (EFL) realize refusals in English, b) the differences between native and non-native speakers of English in the use of refusals, and c) if L2 proficiency affects possible pragmatic transfer or not. The participants in the study included 18 native ...

Data from the National LymphoCare Study (a prospective, multicentre registry that enrolled follicular lymphoma (FL) patients from 2004 to 2007) were used to determine disease characteristics, treatment patterns, outcomes and prognosis for elderly FL (eFL) patients. Of 2650 FL patients, 209 (8%) were aged >80 years; these eFL patients more commonly had grade 3 disease, less frequently received c...

Recently, speaking has played an increasingly important role in second/foreign language settings. However, in many Chinese universities, EFL students rarely communicate in English with other people effectively. The existing behavioristic role plays on New Horizon College English (NHCE) e-learning do not function successfully in supplementing EFL speaking classes. The present study aims at inves...