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Reflective Practice: Theoretical Construct or Ongoing Benefit
(2011-01)
Reflective teaching is an approach toward teaching which requires teachers to think and gather data about their classroom actions, reflect on them, act on them, observe the results, and finally improve their teaching which ...
Interlanguage Morphophonology: Can Persistent Errors be Overcome?
(2009-12)
EFL speakers need clear and intelligible speech to make their communication more successful. Good pronunciation is essential for speakers to communicate their ideas and understand others easily. Whether second language ...
Professional Development for Teachers of English in the UAE
(2007-01)
Because of the importance of professional development in the improvement of teaching and education, and the importance of English as a language and subject of study in the UAE, this study focused on English teachers' ...
Enhancing Students' Growth in Reading by Developing their Reading Strategies
(2006-08)
Research on reading comprehension has shown that proficient readers are those who construct meaning on their own using effective higher level reading skills and strategies. Also, reading researchers argue that effective ...
Exploring the Use of CLT in Saudi Arabia
(2007-01)
Many studies have been conducted to investigate the success of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) adoption in EFL countries. Some of these studies advocate the implementation of CLT teaching, whereas many studies in ...
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 ...
UAE High School Students' Perceptions of Teachers' Feedback on their Writing
(2007-01)
For most teachers, marking students' papers and responding to their writing is a daunting and tedious task. It is also a practice that could carry potential dangers and requires careful consideration. However, feedback ...
Topic Familiarity and Lexical Inferential Strategies in Advanced Emirati ESL Learners
(2008-08)
The present study investigated the effect of background knowledge on lexical inferencing and which strategies advanced Emirati ESL learners used to help them infer the meanings of unfamiliar vocabulary items in context. ...
The Pragmatics of Language Variation: Harry Potter in Translation
(2015-01)
Language variation has been talked about in many linguistics and translation books. Language variation has often been treated in a superficial manner and sometimes ignored, but when it is pragmatically driven, conveying ...
Teacher and Student Views Towards the Role of Grammar Instruction in UAE Universities
(2011-01)
Grammar teaching has always been a very controversial topic in the field of second language acquisition. Whether or not to teach grammar remains an unresolved issue. However, there has been a common accord toward the value ...