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- Code-switching; English-medium content classroom; L2 attitudes (1)
- Communities of practice; second language acquisition; social theory (1)
- Computer-based testing; reading strategies; test-taking strategies; test-wiseness strategies (1)
- Concordancing; corpus consultation; collocation; COCA; KWIC. (1)
- Discourse marker; macro discourse marker; idea signalers corpus-based study; public talk; talk genres (1)
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- Edutainment; English for veterinary profession; e-learning; gamification; game-based elearning program; Net Gen learners (1)
- Intercultural Communicative Competence; English Language Teaching; Community of Practice; Trajectories (1)
- Language proficiency; language dimensionality; communicative competence (1)
- Online learning; Interactive learning; Formative assessment; Summative assessment (1)
- Paraphrasing; inferential reasoning; plagiarism; academic writing (1)
- Pre-service language teacher education; reflectivity; reflective tool; jargon book (1)
- Preferences; feedback; perceived needs; dissertation; supervision (1)
- Student-generated review questions (SGRQs); student question-generation (SQG); teaching techniques; teaching methodology; student engagement; learning strategies; (1)
- Translanguaging; Interactional Competence; SETT framework; Thai learners; EFL; one-on-one tutorials (1)
- Vocabulary size; vocabulary teaching; vocabulary learning; motivation (1)
- Web-based instruction; internet technology; ELT (1)
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Doctoral Students' Perceived Needs And Preferences For Supervisors' Written Feedback, Yenus Nurie
Doctoral Students' Perceived Needs And Preferences For Supervisors' Written Feedback, Yenus Nurie
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This study examines doctorial students' needs and preferences for written feedback on thesis writing from supervisors. Several studies have explored students' preferences for written feedback to respond to students writing in the classroom. However, relatively little or no research has been previously reported about what aspects of written feedback (content, generic or linguistic) are preferred by PhD students to thesis writing in the Ethiopian context. A questionnaire was administered and collected from fifty one doctoral candidates who were currently pursuing their projects in four disciplines. Participants were purposefully selected to complete a questionnaire. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the …
The State Of The Intercultural Communicative Competence: An Exploration Through Trajectories In English Teachers' Discourse, Daron Benjamin Loo, Wannapa Trakulkasemsuk, Pattamawan Jimarkon Zilli
The State Of The Intercultural Communicative Competence: An Exploration Through Trajectories In English Teachers' Discourse, Daron Benjamin Loo, Wannapa Trakulkasemsuk, Pattamawan Jimarkon Zilli
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The history of English language education is punctuated with teaching and learning theories and approaches advocated by different communities of practice. One of such recent trend is the support for the integration of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in the English language classroom. To date, minimal studies have examined this extension of the English language classroom. Hence, to determine the teaching practice of ICC this study looked at the identity-in-practice and -in-discourse, as well as sources of pedagogical knowledge of four English teachers teaching at private institutions in Bangkok. This study employed a discourse analysis approach to first identify the participants' …
What Did We Learn Last Class? An Exploratory Study Of Student- Generated Review Questions, Christopher Nathanael Johnson
What Did We Learn Last Class? An Exploratory Study Of Student- Generated Review Questions, Christopher Nathanael Johnson
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'Student-generated review questions' is a classroom technique in which one or more students are assigned the task of writing a set of questions based on what was studied during a class. These questions are shown to all of the students at the beginning of the next class, and then discussed in pairs or small groups. The current study explored student perceptions of the technique. The studentgenerated review questions activity was run regularly throughout an entire semester with three classes of undergraduate students in a university in Bangkok. At the end of the semester, these students completed a questionnaire comprising Likert …
Atheoretical And Methodological Review Of Web-Based Instruction For English Language Teachers, Piyapan Kantisa, Pragasit Sitthitikul
Atheoretical And Methodological Review Of Web-Based Instruction For English Language Teachers, Piyapan Kantisa, Pragasit Sitthitikul
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This article aims to provide an extensive review of web-based instruction (WBI), implemented within the realm of English language teaching (ELT). WBI is a teaching method that utilizes computer technology to promote learning experiences by leveraging the internet and web applications. It is suggested that educators carefully consider the related elements of age, affiliation, internet access, technological skills, educational needs, culture, interests, motivation and expectation when implementing WBI. In order for this model to be successfully implemented, educators can adhere to the following seven stages of the WBI framework: construct and objective identification, prior knowledge testing, learning objectives modification, learning …
Book Review: How To Write A Thesis (4th Edition), Walaipun Puengpipattrakul
Book Review: How To Write A Thesis (4th Edition), Walaipun Puengpipattrakul
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This book, entitled "How to Write a Thesis", provides principles, writing techniques, and general guidance for writing a thesis. Each chapter of the book consists of a chapter outline, structured at the beginning of the chapter, and a summary provided at the end. The chapter outline is a helpful checklist and the summary is learning outcome. In this new edition, apart from thesis writing techniques, the author also added new features and writing activities such as discussions and workshops. The book comprises eleven chapters which are clustered under six themes following the conventional process of thesis writing.
A Special Interview With Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sun Young Shin About Language Assessment, Sun Young Shin
A Special Interview With Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sun Young Shin About Language Assessment, Sun Young Shin
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In this volume of PASAA, we are very honoured to have an opportunity to interview Associate Professor Dr. Sun Young Shin from Indiana University, Bloomington Campus, USA. Associate Professor Dr. Sun Young Shin is a language teacher with extensive teaching experience in the US and Asia. He has given numerous plenary presentations at regional and international conferences, and published extensively in the area of L2 assessment, English for academic purposes, Language program evaluation, Web-based language teaching and testing. His latest publications include Does the test work? Evaluating a web-based language placement test (accepted, Language Learning & Technology), Evaluating standard setting …
Inferential Reasoning As A Means Of Avoiding Plagiarism In Paraphrasing, Atikhom Thienthong
Inferential Reasoning As A Means Of Avoiding Plagiarism In Paraphrasing, Atikhom Thienthong
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Paraphrasing is a signature practice of constructing intertextual discourse in academic writing. It is a story retelling technique commonly employed by academic writing classes to tackle plagiarism. However, teaching and learning of paraphrasing tend to place a very heavy emphasis on literal meanings of source messages and faithful reproductions of source meanings through new linguistic systems (e.g. altering syntactic structures, changing lexical forms, substituting synonyms), which may not effectively respond to authentic academic writing. Given this textual orientation, inferential reasoning which is essential in academic discourse tends to be relatively overlooked. To address this neglect, this article proposes an alternative …
The Role Of Translanguaging In Improving Thai Learners' Interactional Competence In Dyadic English As A Foreign Language Tutorial Sessions, Tassanee Kampittayakul
The Role Of Translanguaging In Improving Thai Learners' Interactional Competence In Dyadic English As A Foreign Language Tutorial Sessions, Tassanee Kampittayakul
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In line with the Global Englishes principle, translanguaging, the most recent extension of codeswitching, plays a crucial role in English language teaching since translanguaging is seen as an effective tool for communicating. This paper reports the findings of an observational study aimed at investigating the use of translanguaging to foster interactional competence (IC) development among Thai learners in one-on-one English as a foreign language (EFL) tutorials. Its objective is to explore extended learner turns and listenership, the defining characteristics of IC. Based on a zone of proximal development (ZPD) in the sociocultural theory (SCT) of Vygotsky (1978), translanguaging and IC …
Macro Discourse Markers In Ted Talks: How Ideas Are Signaled To Listeners, Kanokrat Uicheng, Michael Crabtree
Macro Discourse Markers In Ted Talks: How Ideas Are Signaled To Listeners, Kanokrat Uicheng, Michael Crabtree
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This study investigated the macro discourse markers used by TED speakers to signal ideas to listeners. 150 TED transcripts from six talk genres: technology, entertainment, design, business, science, and global issues were compiled to identify the frequency and distribution of macro discourse markers. This investigation was conducted to confirm the hypothesis that genres of talks did not affect the distribution of discourse markers. The study also hypothesized that a number of macro discourse markers which explicitly containing the word 'idea' or 'ideas' in them could be found. The results confirmed that the occurrences of macro discourse markers were not subject …
Fostering Reflectivity Through Jargon Books In A Teacher Education Context, Yonca Özkan
Fostering Reflectivity Through Jargon Books In A Teacher Education Context, Yonca Özkan
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This study, focusing on reflectivity in language teacher education, was conducted with the participation of 35 preservice teachers studying at the ELT Department of Cukurova University, Turkey, in 2017- 2018 academic year. The study examined the effects of jargon books (JBs) on preservice language teachers by delving into levels of reflectivity. The two sets of data of the study were collected from jargon book content and face-to-face semi-structured interviews, and display the very fact that preservice teachers mostly reflected upon course-related issues at the first and second levels, and slightly less at the third, most reflective level. Also, the findings …
Attitudes Towards Code-Switching In An English-Medium Content Classroom, Yinager Teklesellassie, Emily Boersma
Attitudes Towards Code-Switching In An English-Medium Content Classroom, Yinager Teklesellassie, Emily Boersma
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes of content subject teachers and their freshman students towards the use of a local language in English-medium content subjects given at Bahir Dar University (BDU), Ethiopia. This study examined whether attitudes towards the use of a local language in English-medium content subjects could be affected by demographic factors like first language background and gender. The participants of the study were content subject teachers and freshman students in three faculties at BDU. Data were collected through questionnaires distributed to both groups of participants. The findings show that both the content subject …
The Effects Of Using Corpus Tools On Efl Student Teachers' Learning And Production Of Verb-Noun Collocations, Galip Kartal, Gonca Yangineksi
The Effects Of Using Corpus Tools On Efl Student Teachers' Learning And Production Of Verb-Noun Collocations, Galip Kartal, Gonca Yangineksi
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This study investigated the effects of utilizing corpus tools on university EFL student teachers' learning and production of verb-noun collocations. The participants were 60 first-year student teachers in an English Language Teaching Department of a state university in Turkey. The research followed a pre and post-test quasi-experimental research design in which two classes participated in experimental and control groups. Both quantitative and qualitative research methods were used. Quantitative data were collected via a Collocation Knowledge Test which was administered as a pre and post-test. In addition, student teachers' writings before and after the implementation were investigated for tracking the production …
The Effectiveness Of Online And Paper-Based Formative Assessment In The Learning Of English As A Second Language, Paul Joyce
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This article investigates the relative effectiveness of online and paper-based formative assessment in the learning of English as a second language. For this study, 74 Japanese university second language (L2) students took online quizzes, while 71 were given paper-based quizzes to complete. The quiz content was drawn from learning material found in the class textbook. Both groups were assigned the exercises as homework. At the end of the 15-week study period, both groups were administered a summative assessment that also covered learning points from the textbook. After controlling for the learners' L2 proficiency through their TOEIC test scores, the performance …
Test-Taking Strategies Used In The Reading Section Of The Test Of English For Thai Engineers And Technologists: A Computerbased Esp Test, Thanaporn Waiprakhon, Natjiree Jaturapitakkul
Test-Taking Strategies Used In The Reading Section Of The Test Of English For Thai Engineers And Technologists: A Computerbased Esp Test, Thanaporn Waiprakhon, Natjiree Jaturapitakkul
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This study aims to investigate test takers' strategies for the reading section of the Test of English for Thai Engineers and Technologists, or TETET, which is an innovative computer-based English for Specific Purposes (ESP) proficiency test. Five fourth-year undergraduate students who obtained overall high scores, particularly in the reading section, were selected to participate in the study. A stimulated recall interview and the reading section of the TETET were used as the two main instruments. The strategy rubric by Cohen and Upton (2006) was adopted in order to analyse the data. The results revealed that test-management strategies were the most …
The Notions Of Language Proficiency And Language Dimensionality, Suthathip Thirakunkovit
The Notions Of Language Proficiency And Language Dimensionality, Suthathip Thirakunkovit
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This study is a literature review on the findings of different studies on the dimensionality of language proficiency. It aims to particularly analyze the assumptions and the statistical findings of relevant research since it has always been an endless debate among linguists and language teachers about whether language proficiency is organized as a unitary ability or multiple divisible competences. For this objective, it is necessary to begin this study by defining the notions of language proficiency. By clarifying the theoretical meanings of language proficiency, I investigated how different researchers discuss the relationships between different language sub-skills and the overall language …
Applying Communities Of Practice Theory To Applied Linguistics Research, Julia Kimura
Applying Communities Of Practice Theory To Applied Linguistics Research, Julia Kimura
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If you are reading this, as a child, you probably went to school to learn. However, as we enter adulthood, we do a great deal of learning informally after we have completed compulsory and formal schooling. Although early theories of learning fell under the quantitative paradigm, new qualitative and social theories of learning have now been proposed. Communities of practice theory can help explain how this informal learning is largely a social endeavor. This theory was developed not as a replacement to existing theories of learning, but as an alternative and complementary explanation of how learning is accomplished. In this …
Sharing Vocabulary Size Test Scores With Students: What's The Impact On Motivation?, Jay Tanaka, Patharaorn Patharakorn
Sharing Vocabulary Size Test Scores With Students: What's The Impact On Motivation?, Jay Tanaka, Patharaorn Patharakorn
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This study investigates the impact of sharing research findings on lexical coverage and vocabulary size with L2 English students. This practical knowledge can be applied toward reading books and other materials. Research has suggested that knowing approximately 98% of the words in a text can lead to adequate reading comprehension (Hu & Nation, 2000). Such information, paired with knowledge of a student's own vocabulary size (Nation & Beglar, 2007), can potentially aid students in setting L2 vocabulary and reading goals. Ninety-nine university students in Thailand participated in this study. It utilizes a pretest-posttest design, with the sharing of research findings …
A Development Of A Game-Based Supplementary E-Learning Program For English For Veterinary Profession I, Satita Watanapokakul
A Development Of A Game-Based Supplementary E-Learning Program For English For Veterinary Profession I, Satita Watanapokakul
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This study focuses on the role of edutainment at the tertiary level. The context is the teaching and learning of English for Veterinary Profession I (ENG VET PROF I) for second-year university students in Bangkok, Thailand. This course focuses on improving students' listening and speaking skills in the veterinary field. In order to make the materials relevant and attractive to Net Gen learners, a gamebased supplementary e-learning program considered an alternative pedagogy adaptable for Net Gen. The purposes of the study are to develop an effective gamebased supplementary e-learning program, called CULI ZOO, for students in English for Veterinary Profession …
Book Review Language Learner Autonomy: Theory, Practice And Research, Muthita Chinpakdee
Book Review Language Learner Autonomy: Theory, Practice And Research, Muthita Chinpakdee
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Language Learner Autonomy: Theory, Practice and Research is a collection of theoretically-driven research findings on learner autonomy, an educational construct defined by Holec (1981, p. 3) as "ability to take charge of one's own learning". Since its introduction to the field of language education in the 1980s, learner autonomy has continually attracted wide interest in the field due to its association with language proficiency and skills in learning management. The concept of the learner taking charge of her learning is, however, inextricably linked with Western ideologies such as democracy, empowerment and liberation. Despite the research interest the topic has received …