This study aimed at exploring the EFL teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge of GBA and English instruction in Indonesian context. The data were collected from 42 senior high school teachers by making use a set questionnaires, interviews, observations. first type was analyzed through response counting to calculate scores percentages, with which categories engineered. Meanwhile, second describi...

This study explores the effect of explicit pronunciation instruction on enlarging listening vocabulary size. 115 learners English as a foreign language were recruited and received ten-week segments four skills (reduction, elision, intrusion assimilation). How was carried out described in details pre-test post-test form Listening Vocabulary Levels Test. It found that after instruction, learners’...

With the advent of the distinctive characterization of academic languagein the past thirty years, there has been atremendous move in the ESL/EFL world towardsformulatinginstructional techniques compatible with the very nature of these skills. As a part of this effort, this studyinvestigated the role of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) approach in achieving these ends. The study e...

This study explored the effect of contrastive phrase resynthesis instruction ongaining the teachability hypothesis stages in self-paced versus time-constrained oralproduction and recognition. Three groups (i.e., 23 learners) of high beginner femalelearners in an English language institute were randomly selected from a cohort oflearners. One group received contrastive metalinguistic instruction ...

Previous research on English Medium Instruction classrooms has almost exclusively documented the interaction between a teacher and students where is able to understand use first language (L1) of students. We present data obtained from science in English-medium-instruction (EMI) high-school programs China had no L1 proficiency therefore spoke only class. The beliefs both teachers were elicited w...

Condolence is part of Austin’s expressive speech act and is related to Searle’s behabitives illocutionary act. Although a theoretically sound issue in pragmatics, condolence speech act has not been investigated as much as other speech acts in discourse-related studies. This paper aims at investigating interjections and intensifiers while performing condolence speech act among Persian and Englis...