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Sensitizing ESL learners to genre
(2008)
This article evaluates the efficacy of explicit genre-based instruction by sensitizing the ESL learners to the concept of genre. The main questions addressed are: How does sensitizing ESL learners to the rhetorical move ...
The short and long-term effects of pronunciation instruction
(2006)
There has been surprisingly little exploration of the effectiveness of pronunciation teaching by researchers. This classroom-based study makes an initial step towards addressing this gap by determining the immediate effect ...
Metacognitive instruction for second language listening development : theory, practice and research implications
(2008)
There has been a growing interest in and concern for the teaching of listening in the last 40 years. Looking back over the years, we can see how the emphases on teaching listening and the focus of listening instruction ...
The English adverbial of time vs. the Vietnamese range topic of time
(2012)
Differences between the function of the adverbial of Time and that of the range topic of Time may lead Vietnamese language users to the risk of mistakenly translating the English clause with the adverbial of Time. The ...
Exploring the essential components of reading
(2010)
Teachers of adult learners of English as a second language (ESL) have increasingly encountered students with limited literacy skills in their native language and/or in English. Yet, many of these practitioners are not ...
English sentences beginning with there and their Vietnamese counterparts
(2014)
English sentences beginning with there, also called English there-constructions, do not constitute only existential sentences; most important among their other uses are presentational there-constructions. It is almost ...
Strategic reading instruction in EFL contexts
(2013)
In foreign language settings, learning to read in English is one of the main goals for many students. To that end, students need to master a number of reading strategies to be able to comprehend text information. Thus, ...
Knowledge base of pronunciation teaching : staking out the territory
(2011)
Despite decades of advocacy for greater investigative attention, research into pronunciation instruction in the teaching of English as a second language (ESL) and English as a foreign language (EFL) continues to be limited. ...
Variation and change
(2013)
This chapter notes that the ultimate concern of variationist sociolinguistics is the evolution of linguistic systems and the mechanisms which operate on them. One feature that offers particularly good insight into these ...
Skills and strategies : towards a new methodology for listening
(1998)
This article calls for a rethinking of the purposes of the listening lesson, and examines ways in which we can teach the skill rather than simply practise it. The approaches proposed are based on micro-listening exercises ...