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Cooperative learning focuses on the interaction with peers in a learning environment. So, most important factor that affects learning is socio-cultural situation of learners that plays a role in learning. Some students are timid due to their piety…

The novelists dealing with the issue of periphery aim to present as accurate as possible, the real world as a harsh, tough, hermetic one, shaped by very particular rules. The novel of suburbia is, above all, one of peripheral areas. They emerge as…

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)…

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 …

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 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…

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 …

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…

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 …