The early learning of English in the state school network Portugal has been subject a wide debate, which not exhausted by introduction teaching as curricular 1st cycle, 2015, and helped to develop intercultural awareness greater number children. new programmes guideline documents emanating from Ministry Education, where objectives areas have redefined, discussed changed since supranational impo...

english is an important language in hong kong, an international city located on the southern coast of the people’s republic of china that, for over 150 years to 1997, was a british colony. this paper describes and analyses changes in teaching methodologies in the english language curriculum formally proposed for hong kong junior secondary schools from 1975 to the present day, to study how the c...

abstract textbooks play an important role in english language teaching (elt), particularly in the english as a foreign language (efl) context where it provides the primary linguistic input. the present research was an attempt to comparatively evaluate the touchstone series in terms of compliment and complaint speech acts. four touchstone textbooks (book 1, book 2, book 3, and book 4) were selec...

Creativity is a term that has proven difficult to define. The field of English language teaching (ELT) especially struggles with this concept, often treating it as an axiom eludes clear definition or notion everyone implicit understanding of. In other pieces research, creativity equated divergent thinking evidenced and measured by performance on different standardized tests. contrast these view...

English language teaching (ELT) has become an essential and indispensable part of primary education in today’s increasingly frequent international exchanges, MOOC, as a massive online model integrating content learning support services, is leading pedagogical transformation, providing historic opportunity to build open sharing platform for ELT. However, developing around MOOC networks still cha...

English language teaching (ELT) writing practitioners have long attempted to improve EFL/ESL learners’ competence in writing with recourse to either instruction or feedback. Likewise, researchers have, to date, mainly focused on either of these treatments to enhance language learners’ composing ability. Which treatment leads to more significant improvements is, however, unclear. Moreover, of th...

Abstract Critical Language Awareness (CLA) seeks to promote social justice by explicitly calling attention power issues in the context of literacy development and language instruction. In this article, we assert that a CLA approach English teaching (ELT) which does not recognize account for urgency climate change its myriad effects on present future generations learners is flawed. It time ELT e...

Introduction One very important aspect of any textbook is its content in terms of the motivation it creates in the readers. This is specifically true in EFL textbooks where the learners need more than just content since content-wise, such books are not very much different from the learners’ world knowledge level. That is why material developers working in this area are usually consciously choos...