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The Collaborative construction of knowledge through online forums for the development of sociocognitive writing skills
(2016)
Changes in the production, transmission and access to information generated by information and communication technologies (ICTs) require new skills and offer cognitive and social opportunities for the construction of ...
Workshops to help foreign language learners of English develop effective reading strategies
(2017)
The final objective of this study is to evaluate whether reading sessions for university learners of English as a foreign language help students become critical and effective readers of particular genres used in foreign ...
English Writing Assessment in an EFL university context : comparing results from teacher reports and teachers´ comments on essays
(2017)
This study is part of the work done in the context of a larger research project titled "Criteria for assessing foreign language writing skills (English) at undergraduate level", which aims at exploring English Language II ...
Self-assessment in English pronunciation at university level: preliminary results
(2017)
Self-assessment in EFL pronunciation can be conceived as both a learning and metacognitive strategy (Celce-Murcia, Brinton, & Goodwin, 1996; Ingels, 2010) that allows students to reflect on their performance, revise which ...
The pedagogical potential of producing audiovisual remixes of classical children's tales for the enhancement of dictation and phonemic transcription at university and tertiary institutions
(2016)
With the advance of globalisation and with today's ease of access to technology, it has become necessary to adapt teaching practices to cater for and suit an ever-changing society. The availability of resources for the ...
Advantages of implementing a portfolio in the areas of grammar and phonetics
(2017)
Research shows that students at all levels see assessment as something that is done to them on their classwork by somebody else. Likewise, more and more teachers are getting dissatisfied and frustrated with the use of ...
Language Learning Strategy Instruction : Design, Implementation and Results of a Workshop on Listening Strategies for EFL Students
(2017)
Language learning strategies are considered keys to learners' autonomy and meaningful learning. Teachers play an important role in helping learners become aware of, develop, and use strategies to complete tasks. In 2015, ...
ICT as the springboard for the creation of more opportunities within the zone of proximal development in the pronunciation class
(2016)
One of the main concerns explored in contemporary research in education has been the ultimate purpose of learning development: whether teachers should aim at transmitting mostly content,or rather at fostering the development ...
The young learner's textbook as a visual model of interaction
(2016)
This presentation examines how multimodal resources -images of school-age children- are deployed in EFL Young Learner´s textbooks. A number of aspects of interactive meaning such as perspective, social distance, lighting ...
Adolescent and adult EFL leaners' vocabulary learning and teaching beliefs
(2016)
The purpose of this paper is to explore the beliefs and perceptions of students of two different age groups (adolescents and adults) enrolled in different educational institutions about the learning and teaching of vocabulary. ...