The development of English-language skills, a near necessity in today’s global economy, is heavily influenced by historical national decisions about whether to subtitle or dub TV content. While prior studies of language acquisition have focused on schools, we show the overwhelming influence of...

The development of English-language skills, a near necessity in today’s global economy, is heavily influenced by historical national decisions about whether to subtitle or dub TV content. While prior studies of language acquisition have focused on schools, we show the overwhelming influence of...

There are many students in Turkey having some problems in learning English as a second language in schools and language centres. Nowadays the term’ English language learning difficulty’ is very important because English language is the communication language in each field. This difficulty is...

This paper is conceived as a result of research involving students enrolled in the Intensive English Programme (IEP) in Nilai University. The students consist of international students from countries such as China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, the African countries and the Middle East. In these...

Teachers’ sense of efficacy has been shown to influence teachers’ actions and student outcomes. This study explored self-efficacy beliefs among English as Foreign Language teachers in the language centres in one selected Middle-East country. Data were collected through a survey administered...

Todos los profesionales en el mundo deberían aprender inglés, para estar actualizados en cada disciplina de conocimiento. Por esto, el Idioma Ingles ha sido incluido en muchos programas escolares. Una de las tareas del maestro de inglés es desarrollar una clase eficiente, y así, lograr...

This action research was carried out with an intermediate EFL class of 37 students (19 women and 18 men) at a prestigious public university of a major city in Ecuador. After I gave them the first quiz, I noticed that most of the class performed very poorly on the listening part. I decided to...