<p>The aim of this research is to examine the effect grammar mastery on listening skills. Does someone’s affect his skills? If it does, what extent? To answer these questions, data, in a form test answers were collected from students taking IELTS Preparatory Class. The Listening section consists several types questions including gap completion, matching and multiple choice questions. focu...

There now exists an established body of work outlining the challenges international students can face as part acculturation process, including a range academic and non-academic pressures to overcome. For many students, writing essays in English for first time is problematic. This article considers pedagogical approaches IELTS test preparation prior university admission, potential introducing sk...

The restrictions imposed by the COVID 19 pandemic have forced educators and students worldwide to adapt online learning. Language teaching in L2 contexts also had shift mode without compromising quality of This paper examines perceptions as well performance participants involved International English Testing System (IELTS) course offered Middle East College, Muscat, Oman via MS Teams, an platfo...

The purpose of this research was to analyze EFL writing tasks in the most popular ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) exam preparation courses in Iran: IELTS, TOEFL, FCE and CAE. Having collected the criteria of writing task appropriateness in light of the process-oriented approach to writing instruction, 114 learner participants were asked to rate EFL writing tasks based on a checkl...

Abstract Corpus tools are known to be effective in helping L2 learners improve their writing, especially regarding use of words. Most corpus-based writing research has focused on university students while little attention been paid secondary school students. This study investigated whether senior China, upon receiving training under the framework data-driven learning (DDL), could vocabulary use...

Researchers and scholars have been attracted by the idea of using integrated writing task along with independent writing task to best assess the EFL learners’ writing competence. This study was conducted to compare the writing performance of EFL students in integrated and independent writing tasks. It also aimed to find out if writing performance varies with task types. A number of thirty Irani...