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Investigating Teachers' Attitudes Toward Task-Based Language Teaching in a Vocational School in the UAE
(2011-06)
Task-based language teaching (TBLT) is an approach to teaching a foreign/second language that attempts to engage language learners in interactionally authentic language use through having them perform communicative tasks. ...
Teacher Written Feedback and Students' Writing: Focus and Nature
(2010-12)
Over the last twenty years, the focus on the teaching of writing has shifted from product to process. Students' writings today undergo a series of drafting stages which teachers correct and comment on, and students need ...
Explicit Vocabulary Learning Through Technology
(2009-06)
Functional language proficiency requires mastery of a large number of words. It is therefore necessary for L2 learners to learn a large vocabulary in a short period of time. In classroom contexts, there appears to be no ...
Reflective Teaching: Impact, Supports, and Barriers from UAE-Based ESL Teachers' Perspectives
(2016-12)
A reflective practice requires conscious efforts by teachers to critically examine their pedagogy with the aim to enhance the quality of their teaching and instill positive transformations in their classrooms. Reflective ...
The Process Approach and UAE High School Students' Attitudes Towards Writing
(2006-08)
Many students have negative attitudes towards writing and they feel frustrated because they do not know what to do to improve it. One of the main reasons behind this attitude is the adoption of the product approach that ...
Oral ESL Test Anxiety with Emirati Secondary School Students
(2011-06)
In the UAE and globally, high-stakes testing is prevalent in second language learning. One important and integral part of high-stakes English language tests is the oral proficiency interview, which can be a pre-requisite ...
Exploring Attitudes of Teachers and Students to the Integration of Technology in EFL Classrooms
(2013-04)
Much available research stresses the role positive teachers' and students' attitudes play in the success of technology integration. A large body of research has been conducted in the region to investigate the attitudes of ...
Addressing Language Errors in L2 Students' Writing: Can Corpora Help?
(2011-06)
Direct corpus consultation by learners has been recognized as a means of helping students speak and write standard English by allowing them to look up real world language usage. However, factors such as students' language ...
Culture in the EFL Classroom: Western Instructions and Arab Students in the UAE
(2013-12)
In the field of EFL teaching, it is common for instructors and students to come from very different cultural backgrounds. Instructors who leave their home countries and go to teach abroad may have trouble adjusting to the ...
The Use of Culturally-Familiar Literature in the EFL Classroom
(2013-05)
Insights from Cultural Studies and related fields significantly influence the discipline of language learning and teaching recently. Literature shares an intrinsic relationship with language and culture and therefore can ...