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Volume 5 Number 4 Year 2086

13 articles in this issue 

Lilia Raitskaya, Elena Tikhonova

The editorial focuses on the employability skills and the ways they are reflected in the research field of higher education. The topics related to competencies, abilities, attributes and skills are crucially important as they substantially determine the c... see more

Pags. 4 - 8  

Zulfiqar Ahmad

Despite an extensive research base in the domain of analyses for academic writing, a study of how pedagogic perceptions are revealed in students’ actual writing performance is relatively an under-researched area. This study aimed at finding out the relati... see more

Pags. 9 - 24  

Matthew P. Baldwin, Mik Fanguy, Jamie H. Costley

While the benefits of shared note-taking during live lectures have been studied, the effects of shared note-taking in e-learning environments merit examination since such courses often feature asynchronous video lectures, allowing students to work togethe... see more

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Vildana Dubravac, Esma Latic

Understanding learners’ epistemological beliefs as one of the core segments underlying one’s learning experience is of cardinal importance both from the point of conveying as well as acquiring new knowledge. In English language teaching studying language ... see more

Pags. 36 - 53  

Alenka Mikulec, Božica Vuic

The importance of reading is especially emphasized nowadays when the majority of information, irrespective of the source (books, daily press, professional literature, web sources, etc.), is primarily accessed via reading. Therefore, effective reading and ... see more

Pags. 54 - 65  

Tolulope Oluremi

Political humour is a recurring element in print media and other genres, touching various areas of Nigerian political discourse. A number of research studies have investigated political humour in contemporary Nigerian political discourse. The political hu... see more

Pags. 66 - 80  

Mojgan Rashtchi, Mohammad Reza Tollabi Mazraehno

This quasi-experimental study examined whether TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) talks could improve the listening skills of Iranian EFL learners. The study also explored whether the different media of instruction could have differing impacts on the... see more

Pags. 81 - 97  

Gülnihal Sakrak-Ekin, Cem Balçikanli

The main aim of this study was to unravel the possible relationship between individuals’ level of autonomy as EFL learners and academic success in terms of language learning at the tertiary level. Additionally, this quantitative study focused on exploring... see more

Pags. 98 - 111  

Elizaveta A. Smirnova

This paper focuses on referential coherence, which is seen as a crucial attribute of effective academic writing. Findings are reported from a corpus study of Russian students’ research proposals. The learners’ use of anaphoric expressions is compared with... see more

Pags. 112 - 127  

Kenneth Wang, Tatiana M. Permyakova, Marina S. Sheveleva

This study examines perfectionism in the English language teaching profession in Russia. The aims are threefold: 1) to use latent profile analysis (LPA) to classify English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers into different types of perfectionists; 2) to... see more

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Huang Lihe

China’s launch of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has had profound linguistic implications on its foreign language education policy. Successful foreign language programs are vital to any country’s national security and global interest promotion. An ana... see more

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