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As the society we are living has become more complex and specialized in the last decades, reading has become one of the most important skills in ELT/ EFL teaching. The importance of connecting and commenting on the ideas are the key elements of…

This paper presents an empirical study on Chinese university students’ intercultural communication competence. The results show that learners should promote their cultural knowledge, intercultural sensitivity, communication strategies and…

In recent decades, there have been numerous studies on the significance of extensive reading to English as a second language (ESL) and English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching and learning showing that extensive reading can effectively improve…

All research is field work but field work undertaken to study a dialect of a community ‗foreign‗ to researchers, in an unfamiliar part of the world is a particularly daunting but enriching experience. So much about the language and culture of the …

In practice, often there is no systematic way of dictionary use which would enable learners to become independent users and help them lay foundations for lifelong learning. Some of the reasons are that linguists do not agree on the role of…

Reflection is seen as an important contributor to teacher development, but many students offer resistance when asked to become reflective. Adopting the principled framework of Exploratory Practice, we investigated the student reaction when being …

The spoken and written language known as Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the idiom that links almost three hundred million Arabic speakers from Iraq in the East to Morocco in the West, and it is this form of Arabic that is used in broadcast media…

Thirty, with two distinct proficiency level, EFL Saudi English majors at Taibah University participated in this study. Two written elicitation tasks were used: a fill-in-theblank test which was accompanied by a self-checklist, and a translation…

The main objective of learning a foreign language these days is to acquire communicative competence in such a language in real life situations. Being the most important lingua franca, English is the most sought- after foreign language in the …

This study investigates the factors causing anxiety for EFL learners in learning and using speaking skills in English. Bosnian and Turkish students at English preparatory classes and first year classes studying at International Burch University (IBU)…