Abstract Displaying a strong competence in English as second language (L2) is major advantage for university graduates personal development and career advancement. There are limited studies that have explored how the implementation of English-Medium-Instruction (EMI) non-Anglophone universities can affect students’ academic proficiency. This mixed-method study explores both learners’ variables ...

In this study, an extension of Klahr and Nigam (2004), we tested 177 middle school students’ on their acquisition of the control of variables strategy (CVS) using an interactive virtual ramp environment. We compared the effectiveness of three pedagogical approaches, namely, direct instruction with reification, direct instruction without reification, and discovery learning, all of which were aut...

The present study investigated school general English achievement and group work among Iranian junior high school students. The main question this study tried to answer was whether group work could enhance a higher general English achievement among junior high school students. To answer this question, 60 female learners were divided into experimental and control group randomly with 30 members i...

In line with the recommendation that syntactic complexity-focused instruction should be provided to EFL learners at university level, present study modified traditional teaching content of English grammar in China into a syllabus. We examined translations by 52 first-year undergraduate students enrolled an Grammar course pre- and post-tests determine whether explicit syntactically complex struc...

Although boredom is a negative emotion that students frequently experience in the process of learning English, language has received scant research attention terms its structure, levels and impact on engagement. To fill this gap, study focused data obtained from 1157 high school six different areas mainland China via questionnaire. Exploratory factor analysis revealed binary structure English (...

This study explores how instructors view the current state of English medium instruction (EMI) in terms existence EMI engineering courses, influences instructor motivations, and motivation constructs influence intrinsic to teach courses. Explanatory variables regarding motivations included use Korean language (L1) when teaching teacher self-efficacy, anxiety, perceived student benefits for acqu...

Natural language makes considerable use of recurrent formulaic patterns of words. This article triangulates the construct of formula from corpus linguistic, psycholinguistic, and educational perspectives. It describes the corpus linguistic extraction of pedagogically useful formulaic sequences for academic speech and writing. It determines English as a second language (ESL) and English for acad...

Morphology is a major organising principle of English and other alphabetic languages, but has been largely neglected in theories of reading acquisition. In this article, I develop the view that learning to appreciate morphological relationships may be a vital part of acquiring a direct mapping between printed words and their meanings, represented in the ventral brain pathway of the reading netw...