10 articles in this issue
Bambang Yudi Cahyono,Titik Rahayu
There have been a lot of research studies on the role of motivation in education and language learning. However, research on the role of motivation in the area of EFL (English as a foreign language) writing is a rare undertaking. This study aimed to exami... see more
Wenhua Hsu
Schmitt and Schmitt (2014) labeled the first 4000 to 9000 word families as mid-frequency words and stressed their importance based on Nation's (2006) estimate that for adequate comprehension of a variety of authentic texts, knowledge of the first 9000 wor... see more
Diah Royani Meisani,Fuad Abdul Hamied,Bahrudin Musthafa,Pupung Purnawarman
This study was aimed at investigating the influencing factors on students’ English proficiency levels based on Cambridge English Tests for Children and Young Learners. A preliminary survey was undertaken to select the sample of elementary schools that off... see more
Mariem Ouaja,Utami Widiati,Yazid Basthomi,Khalil Jahbel
This study aims at discovering the emotional intelligence and receptive English skills of Tunisian IT students, studying the relationship between the two variables, and determining the best predictors of receptive English skills among the emotional intell... see more
Aurelia Melinda Herka Puspita,Joseph Ernest Mambu
The incorporation of critical pedagogical (CP) perspectives into ELT classrooms has been widely discussed in ELT literature, but how English language teachers in Indonesian schools integrate them in their lessons has not been sufficiently documented. This... see more
Abouzar Rajabpour
Many universities in the Middle East, for instance, Shiraz University in Iran and Sultan Qaboos University in Oman have been running M-reader, a free Internet site which helps educational institutions to manage extensive reading (ER), as a way of includin... see more
Masoumeh Razavi,Abbas Pourhosein Gilakjani
This study investigated the effect of teaching cultural content on Iranian intermediate English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ reading comprehension. To this end, 60 intermediate EFL learners from Shokouh Institute in Motelqu, Mazandaran, Iran were... see more
Sopha Soeung
Private tutoring is not a new phenomenon for education in both developed and developing countries. However, English private tutoring (EPT) attracted a limited number of studies, although English is viewed as the key to success in non-English speaking coun... see more
Amelyn A Thompson,Willy A Renandya
The role of gesture in second language acquisition (SLA) has recently become a promising area of research, characterized by the growing number of empirical research studies that examine the potential of incorporating gestures in such areas as the teaching... see more
Flora Debora Floris
Susan Gaer is a Professor Emeritus of Santa Ana College, California. She has an MA in English with emphasis on Teaching English as a Second Language and an MA in Educational Technology from Pepperdine University. She is the President-Elect CATESOL 2018-20... see more