This study examined the effect of culturally-specific items on performance Arab candidates IELTS Listening Test. Using an online survey and focus-group discussions with 16 teachers 32 at Al Ain University in Abu Dhabi/the United Emirates, current showed that independent variable, i.e., ‘culture’ has a negative impact candidates’ performance. The results revealed most culturally-loaded section T...

This study aimed to measure the correlations between reading strategies, learning styles and reading comprehension of the Saudi EFL college learners' English reading comprehension. This study used a survey and two IELTS reading passages that vary in difficulty levels. The purpose was to show how two different reading strategies affect EFL students' reading comprehension. The study further exami...

This study examined the mediating roles of gender and academic field in relationship between vocabulary knowledge reading comprehension. A size test, a depth test IELTS were administered to 319 university-level students (54 males; 265 females) from three disciplines: medicine, science, arts. The findings revealed that had 2000 3000 word families, low (45.3%), poor comprehension (52.4%). Besides...

Use of Clickers in classroom teaching and learning has become growingly popular in USA. This study aims to identify whether use of Clickers in college English class can improve learners’ English proficiency and enhance students’ awareness of metacognition compared with traditional multimedia aided pedagogy in Malaysian contexts. By comparing the data obtained from three questionnaires and an IE...

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...