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Using Journal Writing With Peer Feedback To Enhance Efl Students' Writing Ability Across Proficiency Levels, Watcharee Kulprasit, Thanyapa Chiramanee
Using Journal Writing With Peer Feedback To Enhance Efl Students' Writing Ability Across Proficiency Levels, Watcharee Kulprasit, Thanyapa Chiramanee
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This quasi-experimental research integrated journal writing with peer feedback in an EFL writing classroom to examine its impact on writing ability of 42 Mathayomsuksa 3 Semi-English-program students in terms of accuracy and fluency across proficiency levels. The findings revealed that all students' overall writing ability improved significantly. The middle and the low groups' writing ability improved significantly in terms of accuracy and the word count in their writing significantly increased while the high group's did not. However, no significant improvement was found in all students' production of consistent language structures and vocabulary use: an aspect of fluency. The data analysis …
The Use Of Win, Self-Creative Interaction Ppt, And Online Tests To Assist In The Instruction Of English For Taiwanese Freshmen, Hui-Kuei Hsieh, Hui-Uen Chia, Erickson Lin
The Use Of Win, Self-Creative Interaction Ppt, And Online Tests To Assist In The Instruction Of English For Taiwanese Freshmen, Hui-Kuei Hsieh, Hui-Uen Chia, Erickson Lin
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Nowadays, because of the expansion of high-speed networking, people highly depend upon computers and the Internet to receive information and acquire knowledge. Education is gradually transforming from teacher-centric to student-centric. Instructors have become facilitators, tutors, coaches, guides and motivators. As a result, instruction has become non-linear and self-directed. Traditional classroom lectures are being gradually replaced by interactive teaching approaches. To reflect this trend, new forms of instruction must also take learners' needs into consideration. Consequently, interactive multimedia (IM) integrated instruction has become a must in Taiwanese higher education. Today, IM and courseware are required educational media in almost every Taiwanese …
Tests And Measurement For People Who (Think They) Hate Tests And Measurement, Sakolkarn Insai
Tests And Measurement For People Who (Think They) Hate Tests And Measurement, Sakolkarn Insai
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Salkind, N. J. (2013). Tests and measurement for people who (think they) hate tests and measurement (2nd ed.). Los Angeles: Sage Publication.
Classroom Assessment For Student Learning: Doing It Right - Using It Well, Champoon Sam-Arng, Thidawan Charoenpornsook
Classroom Assessment For Student Learning: Doing It Right - Using It Well, Champoon Sam-Arng, Thidawan Charoenpornsook
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Chappuis, J., Stiggins, R., Chappuis, S., & Arter, J. (2012). Classroom Assessment for Student Learning: Doing It Right - Using It Well (2nd Edition). Boston: Pearson Education.
Harnessing The Power Of K-W-L To Help Struggling Efl Readers Become Strategic Readers, Dumrong Adunyarittigun, Wichaya Pidchamook
Harnessing The Power Of K-W-L To Help Struggling Efl Readers Become Strategic Readers, Dumrong Adunyarittigun, Wichaya Pidchamook
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This study aimed to investigate the effects of KWL to help struggling college EFL readers to read informational texts. Thirteen Thai college second-year students received instruction on how to use KWL through a process of teacher modeling. They were engaged in activating their background knowledge and interest, generating their own questions, and discussing the texts with peers and teachers before, during and after reading. Four reading tests and interviews were used to investigate the students' reading performance. The results revealed that the struggling readers did improve their reading performance over time and had active engagement in reading the informational texts. …
Degree Of Comprehensibility In Thai Accented English Rated By Native Speaker Judges, Rachada Pongprairat, Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin
Degree Of Comprehensibility In Thai Accented English Rated By Native Speaker Judges, Rachada Pongprairat, Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin
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This study focuses on Thai accented English in one suprasegmental aspect—tonality (tone group chunking and rhythmic group division). Prior studies mostly compared the productions of learners at different proficiency levels with reference to native speakers as a norm. This study goes further by investigating the degree of difficulty in understanding Thai accented read speech by two groups of native speaker judges with different amounts of contact with Thai learners. The English read speech of two groups of Thai EFL learners representing slightly accented speakers (n = 5) and heavily accented speakers (n = 5) were randomised and presented to the …
An Analysis Of Moves In Introductions In International And Thai Journal Research Articles, Wirada Amnuai, Anchalee Wannaruk
An Analysis Of Moves In Introductions In International And Thai Journal Research Articles, Wirada Amnuai, Anchalee Wannaruk
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The schematic organization of research articles in terms of moves and steps has attracted extensive attention in genre study, and the focus of move-based analysis is on the hierarchical schematic structures of texts. The primary aim of this study is to compare the rhetorical moves in English research article introductions in Applied Linguistics as published in local Thai journals with those published in international journals. The comparison was made between 20 local and 20 international research article introductions selected from seven refereed local Thai journals and from seven international journals. These research article introductions were analyzed based on Swales' (2004) …
Encouraging Thai Efl Students' Recursive Progression Through The Writing Process With Blogs, Onuma Lakarnchua, Punchalee Wasanasomsithi
Encouraging Thai Efl Students' Recursive Progression Through The Writing Process With Blogs, Onuma Lakarnchua, Punchalee Wasanasomsithi
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Blogging, which allows users to post texts to an online site and have others comment on them, is posited to benefit writing as a process. Whether or not blogging encourages recursive progression through the writing process, which is deemed essential to fostering writing ability, and the factors that help it to do so, still need further investigation, particularly when it is implemented in a Thai context. This study sought to determine if Thai EFL students who used blogs to complete writing assignments moved recursively through the writing process, and if so, what features of blogging seemed to promote this action. …
Ten Mistakes To Avoid When Writing A Literature Review, Woravut Jaroongkhongdach
Ten Mistakes To Avoid When Writing A Literature Review, Woravut Jaroongkhongdach
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Writing a quality literature review is important for success in publication and graduate studies, but it is a difficult task for many novice researchers and graduate students to achieve as noted by several scholars. For instance, Boote and Beile (2005) assert that ―most literature reviews [in dissertations] are poorly conceptualized and written‖ (p. 4), and Onwuegbuzie and Daniel (2005) report that many literature reviews of manuscripts for publications are underdeveloped and have problems with unsupported claims. These problems seem to be common in various disciplines such as education and social studies (see e.g., Fraenkel & Wallen, 2008; Zorn & Campbell, …
Communication Mobility And The Environment For Its Development, Olga A. Marina, Olga V. Smirnova
Communication Mobility And The Environment For Its Development, Olga A. Marina, Olga V. Smirnova
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Language use in the professional sphere gives rise to great complexity of communication as it adds contextual dimensions of both a linguistic and non-linguistic character due to the specific purposes and demands of this environment. The explosion of information for professional needs in foreign languages and expanding international professional communication, cooperation and mobility point to the need to revise the methods of teaching foreign languages to university students in order to increase the competitiveness and mobility of future graduates. Now the quality of professional foreign language training is defined by the ability of specialists to work effectively, to adapt to …
Looking Through The Critical Lens With The Public Service Announcement: A Short Discussion In Teaching Practice, Sheiron Sanchez
Looking Through The Critical Lens With The Public Service Announcement: A Short Discussion In Teaching Practice, Sheiron Sanchez
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Success for lifelong learners in the 21st century requires a more active, dynamic, and critical engagement with the diversity of texts inside and outside the classroom. This cornucopia of texts is constantly available for both educators and their students. Especially with the limitless access to texts via different media outlets, acute awareness and vigilance are necessary when certain texts are applied in any classroom. Within a classroom discourse, the development of critical thinking skills can be transformed into a social practice in the global community. Teachers can guide students in challenging established power relationships and social norms and practices, allowing …
Language For Specific Purposes (Lsp) Web-Based Assessment And The Speaking Performances Of Two Ability Groups, Malinee Phaiboonnugulkij, Kanchana Prapphal
Language For Specific Purposes (Lsp) Web-Based Assessment And The Speaking Performances Of Two Ability Groups, Malinee Phaiboonnugulkij, Kanchana Prapphal
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This study examines the validity and reliability of an Internetintegrated test to assess language for specific purposes (LSP) speaking abilities of the students in the English for Tourism course at a Thai university, and explores whether this test can identify differences in the students' abilities in three task types in the context of tourism in Thailand. The sample group was comprised of 120 third-year university students. A two-way ANOVA was conducted to explore the differences in the performances of the two ability groups in attempting the three test-task types. Content analysis was employed to investigate the similarities and differences in …
The Use Of Multilevel Writing Tasks In An Efl Classroom, Apiwan Nuangpolmak
The Use Of Multilevel Writing Tasks In An Efl Classroom, Apiwan Nuangpolmak
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The diversity in language learners not only includes demographic factors such as age, gender and educational background, but also includes psychological aspects; namely interest, need, and motivation. However, it is often the learners' mixed language proficiency which causes major problems in the classroom. The current study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of the design and implementation of a series of multilevel writing tasks, created to address the issues of mixed-ability groups, by offering choices for learners to work on the task levels appropriate to their proficiency. The findings from the analysis of the learners' texts suggested that intask supporting features …
Measuring Grammatical Complexity In Test-Based Spoken Discourse, Kornwipa Poonpon
Measuring Grammatical Complexity In Test-Based Spoken Discourse, Kornwipa Poonpon
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Grammatical complexity is one of the important criteria to judge whether or not a language learner is proficient· in a particular language. However, grammatical complexity in spoken language is still under-investigated, mainly due to its unreliable operationalization in previous studies. This article discusses this challenge and its effect and argues for an alternative practice to select grammatical complexity measures for test-based spoken discourse. The article starts with a review ofliterature on grammar in spoken discourse and role of grammatical complexity in test-based spoken discourse. Then selections of grammatical complexity measures in previous studies are discussed. This leads to an argument …
Learner Corpus Linguistics In The Efl Classroom, Peter Crosthwaite
Learner Corpus Linguistics In The Efl Classroom, Peter Crosthwaite
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Learner corpora, or searchable collections of the written or spoken production of language learners, have become increasingly vital in the field of applied linguistics. As advances in computational linguistics and natural language processing have allowed for the automatic or semi-automatic parsing, tagging and coding of large chunks of learner-produced text, there is increasing interest in the analysis of large-scale corpora of many millions of words, collected from a broad range of linguistic tasks, language backgrounds, and learner proficiencies.
Using Positive Psychology Exercises In The Esl Classroom To Improve Student Well-Being, Ian T. Mcdonald
Using Positive Psychology Exercises In The Esl Classroom To Improve Student Well-Being, Ian T. Mcdonald
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One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.'
English Unlimited, John Viano
English Unlimited, John Viano
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Tilbury, A., Hendra, L. A., Rea, D., & Clementson, T. (2011). English Unlimited (Upper Intermediate). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
English As An International Language: Perspectives From Instructors In A Mainstream English Class, Wutthiphong Laoriandee
English As An International Language: Perspectives From Instructors In A Mainstream English Class, Wutthiphong Laoriandee
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English as an international language (EIL) has mainly been addressed by non-native world Englishes scholars to non-native English students. Studies on explicit instruction of EIL that emphasizes plurality of the language and culture, and communicative strategies toward different speakers have rarely been conducted in mainstream classes where the majority of the students are native speakers. This preliminary study, inspired by Smith's ( 1983) idea that EIL concepts be taught to everyone, including native speakers, investigates perceptions of instructors at Purdue University, who are mainly English native speakers and teach a course on speech communication (COM 114) to mainly native-speaker students. …
Teacher Into Counselor: Are You Ready For The Transformation?, Pattama Sappapan
Teacher Into Counselor: Are You Ready For The Transformation?, Pattama Sappapan
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Teachers have a number of roles to play in the teaching and learning process. However, our role as counselors or advisers in helping facilitate learner independence in a self access learning center may have not been fully realized nor practiced by many teachers. The aims of this paper are to discuss the teacher's role as a counselor in a self-access learning center and encourage teachers to contribute more to the development of learner autonomy. First, the key concepts of autonomy, the role of selfassessment, and self access learning center are discussed. Next, the teachers' role as a counselor is proposed, …
Implementing Blended Learning With Graduate Students Using The Moodle Platform, Prateep Kiratibodee
Implementing Blended Learning With Graduate Students Using The Moodle Platform, Prateep Kiratibodee
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A few years ago, I heard about blended learning and Moodle from a colleague. He talked about its benefits and how the online courses have helped him and his students in their teaching and learning. This talk sparked the idea of using Moodle to help my students learn better. However, with my regular hectic schedule, I kept making excuses to postpone doing what I thought could be beneficial for my students.
Classroom Management Techniques, Walaipun Puengpipattrakul
Classroom Management Techniques, Walaipun Puengpipattrakul
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Scrivener, J. (2012). Classroom Management Techniques. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Extensive Reading And Its Potential In Assisting Low-Ability Efl Learners To Increase Their Reading Comprehension And Motivation, Wilairat Kirin, Punchalee Wasanasomsithi
Extensive Reading And Its Potential In Assisting Low-Ability Efl Learners To Increase Their Reading Comprehension And Motivation, Wilairat Kirin, Punchalee Wasanasomsithi
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Reading comprehensible texts is referred to by Krashen (2005) as representing a bridge to heavier reading such as journal and magazine features or academic texts as it helps provide competency that is crucial to facilitate comprehension. Reading such texts extensively has also been reported repetitively by substantial research, both in ESL and EFL contexts, as contributing to the enhancement of reading ability and, particularly, motivation to continue the reading engagement. This paper reports on findings from an experiment with low-ability Thai undergraduate students and discusses whether the claims made about extensive reading (ER) and its existing knowledge are applicable in …
The Relationship Between The Chulalongkorn University Students' Ability To Identify Stress Patterns Of English Polysyllabic Medical Terms And The Ability To Pronounce Them, Satita Watanapokakul
The Relationship Between The Chulalongkorn University Students' Ability To Identify Stress Patterns Of English Polysyllabic Medical Terms And The Ability To Pronounce Them, Satita Watanapokakul
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Word stress, especially for terminologies like medical terms, has been of great concern among EFL instructors for many years, and EFL students find it difficult to get the correct pronunciation due to the polysyllabic nature of most medical terms. This study has three main objectives: to explore the CU medical students' problems in marking stress in English polysyllabic medical terms; to find out the relationship between the students' ability to identify stress patterns of English polysyllabic medical terms and the ability to pronounce them; and to investigate students' opinions on the word-stress marking in English polysyllabic medical terms. The participants …
An Exploratory Study Of Sentence Structure Instruction In Improving Chulalongkorn University Law Students' Writing Ability, Adisra Katib
An Exploratory Study Of Sentence Structure Instruction In Improving Chulalongkorn University Law Students' Writing Ability, Adisra Katib
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This research explores the effect of sentence structure instruction and sentence-combining practice on writing performance in answering essay questions and on syntactic complexity measured in paragraph writing of second-year Chulalongkorn University Law students taking the English for Academic Purposes (Law) I course. Four groups of students participated in the study: the experimental higher and lower proficiency groups and the control higher and lower proficiency groups. The two experimental groups of different proficiency levels were given treatment of different types of sentence structure instruction and sentence-combining practice for twelve weeks while the two control groups of different proficiency levels were taught …
What Does Focus-On-Form Journal Writing Tell Language Teachers?, Walaipun Puengpipattrakul
What Does Focus-On-Form Journal Writing Tell Language Teachers?, Walaipun Puengpipattrakul
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This research study employed the contemporary focus-on-form approach blending grammar instruction and communicative language teaching by means of journal writing to maximize language learners' grammatical ability in formal education. This research study aimed to (a) investigate the effects of journal writing on grammatical ability of the undergraduates and within the groups of highand low-achievers and (b) explore the undergraduates' opinions toward the use of journal writing as a means to improve grammatical ability. The triangulated study, employing the mixed-quantitative and qualitative- methods, was conducted in Thailand on 32 first-year Thai university undergraduates' scores in the grammatical test of verbal tenses, …
Using Focus Groups In Language Research, Arthur Mcneill
Using Focus Groups In Language Research, Arthur Mcneill
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This paper examines the potential of the focus group as a research method in language studies. In social sciences research, focus groups are becoming increasingly popular as a means of gathering data. It is logical to anticipate that the focus group can also be a suitable research method for investigating certain topics related to language. The paper describes how focus groups are typically organized and run, then addresses some of the on-going concerns about the handling of focus group data. Provided certain safeguards are in place concerning data analysis and provided the procedures for handling data are made as explicit …
Articles The Acquisition Of English Adverbs By Thai Learners Rananda, Rananda Rungnaphawet
Articles The Acquisition Of English Adverbs By Thai Learners Rananda, Rananda Rungnaphawet
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This study explores the acquisition of English adverbs by Thai learners with respect to the range of positions of adjunction relative to the clause, applying the adjacency parameter as well as markedness theories. The subjects consisted of three groups, namely the native group, the advanced learner group, and the intermediate learner group. The results were as follows. In terms of the adjacency parameter, the native group placed adverbs quite equally between the clause-initial and the clause-medial positions. On the other hand, the learner groups put much more adverbs clause-initially. Despite these differences, the advanced group was on a par with …
The Effects Of Correction Feedback Techniques On Efl Learners's Pragmatic Production And Confidence, Pajaree Nipaspong, Sumalee Chinokul
The Effects Of Correction Feedback Techniques On Efl Learners's Pragmatic Production And Confidence, Pajaree Nipaspong, Sumalee Chinokul
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This paper reports on the effectiveness of explicit feedback and prompts in developing EFL learners' pragmatically appropriate refusal production and level of confidence. The study included 39 participants with two experimental groups and one control group. After the tenweek treatment, results from the oral refusal production tests and the rating scales revealed the effectiveness of prompts over explicit feedback in helping learners improve their refusal production and confidence. However, the control group receiving delayed feedback recorded the greatest confidence improvement, but the least refusal production gain. The key factors leading to the advantages of prompts may result from its provision …
Ability Of Efl Health Science Graduate Students In Identifying The Core Parts Of Long, Complex Sentences, Phan Banpho
Ability Of Efl Health Science Graduate Students In Identifying The Core Parts Of Long, Complex Sentences, Phan Banpho
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Professional academic articles often contain long, complex sentences, which can hinder comprehension. This study investigated the ability of 151 EFL health science graduate students taking an EFL course entitled Technical English for Medical Science Graduates in 2006 and 2007 in identifying the core parts of 15 long, complex sentences with an average length of 27.47 words (S.D. = 6.17), a minimum of 17 words and a maximum of 40 words. The readability index of these test sentences was 13.85 and the Flesch Index 44.18, indicating that students may find them difficult to read. Each sentence included one dependent clause - …
A Genre-Based Approach For Teaching Writing To Low-Proficiency Efl College Students, Yi-Chun Pan
A Genre-Based Approach For Teaching Writing To Low-Proficiency Efl College Students, Yi-Chun Pan
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This paper describes a genre-based approach paired with a range of activities, aiming to provide low-proficiency EFL college students with the ability to create whole texts. A genre-based approach clearly assists students to understand textual and linguistic features, and various activities facilitate student reinforcement of their abilities in both the mechanics and organization of writing.