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Teachers’ attitudes and techniques towards EFL writing in Egyptian secondary schools
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)In 2008, the Egyptian Ministry of Education introduced a new national textbook, Hello for Secondary Schools, which recommends a shift in EFL teachers’ instructional practices. Since then, very little attention has been ... -
Omani school supervisor perspectives of contextual factors impacting upon students’ limited English proficiency: an exploratory study
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)Since the beginning of Oman’s “modern era” in 1970, English has assumed a central role in the country’s education system and has acted as a lingua franca across a variety of domains. However, despite this, graduates of ... -
Towards a better EFL learners’ management of their independent English language learning at University level
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)This paper reports the results of a research work that has sought to investigate the characteristics of students’ management of their English language learning and has attempted to correlate it with effective, independent, ... -
Reproducing the institutional discourses: a critical language awareness approach
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)Since “consciousness is the first step towards emancipation” (Fairclough, 1989, p. 233), and since reproducing the ideological power-bearing discourses and hierarchical relations needs foregrounding the taken-for-granted ... -
Observing students’ attitudes towards teachers’ code-switching in EFL classes. Does gender have any impact?
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)Code-switching is a widespread phenomenon used as a communicative resource both in natural and educational settings. This is very common in bilingual and multilingual settings but not in educational ones. There are varying ... -
SERRANO, R., GÓMEZ, M.E. & HUERTAS, C. (Madrid, 2016). La educación sí importa en el siglo XXI
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E-politeness: an analysis of taiwanese efl learners’ email discourse on request strategies
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)This study aims to investigate EFL learners’ interlanguage pragmatic development through the elicited request emails addressed to the faculty in an institutional setting. Sixty Taiwanese students of two linguistic levels ... -
Integrating ICT in a didactic unit: lights, camera, action!
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)In Spain, the educational system is focused on traditional teacher-centred methods. Nevertheless, this traditional approach does not engage students anymore. Prensky (2001) claims that students have changed and our ... -
L2 writing development: the case of two high-achieving and two struggling college-level students
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)Researchers and language practitioners have long been interested in the quest for theory-based, research-supported constructs that can adequately characterize L2 writing proficiency and development. The ongoing scholarly ... -
The importance of promoting multimodal teaching in the foreign language classroom for the acquisition of social competences: practical examples
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)This article analyses the way in which the subject English Language V of the degree English Studies (English Language and Literature) combines the development of the five skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing and ... -
Investigating the relationship between depth and breadth of vocabulary knowledge and listening comprehension across different proficiency levels among Iranian EFL learners
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)This study was an attempt to investigate the particular role of learners’ depth and breadth of vocabulary knowledge in their listening comprehension. Moreover, it also sought to find out whether there is any difference ... -
Cooperative and competitive teaching techniques affecting iranian EFL learners’ autonomy level
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)This study investigated the effects of competitive and cooperative teaching techniques on Iranian adult EFL learners’ autonomy. To this end, a sample of 88 non-English major university students at Sohrevardi Nonprofit College ... -
The status quo of teacher-training courses in the Iranian EFL context: a focus on models of professional education and dynamic assessment
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)Given that Teacher-Training Courses (TTC’s) have responsibility for assisting prospective teachers with building up a repertoire of technical & pedagogic knowledge, the systematically evaluation of such courses is regarded ... -
How computer technology transforms writing performance: an integration of the process/genre approach and blogs in EFL writing courses
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)This quasi-experimental research examined the effects of the process/genre approach (PGA) with the integration of blogs in EFL university-level students’ writing classrooms. This was a mixed-method study in which the ... -
Towards an understanding of target language use in the EFL classroom: a report from Norway
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)For a considerable number of years, mother tongue (MT) use has been ostracized in English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms as a form of poor teaching that negatively affects target language (TL) acquisition (McMillan ... -
Using ICT to contact the target culture: teachers’ view
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)While information and communication technologies (ICT) have made speakers of and content from the target foreign culture easily accessible to learners and teachers alike, they may cause conditions for FL teachers. This ... -
The long way to bilingualism: the peculiar case of multilingual South Tyrol
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)In the present contribution we discuss the challenges and the results of learning a second language in South Tyrol, the multilingual border region in northern Italy where the autochthonous German- and Ladinspeaking communities ... -
Vocabulary knowledge learning and reading comprehension performance: which one is superior - breadth or depth?
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)Reading has been and is a demanding task for foreign language learners. Correspondingly, vocabulary knowledge plays an extremely vital role in foreign language learning and numerous researchers have investigated the ... -
English for academic purposes for the construction of students’ scientific identity
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)Modern Europe is considered within such three strategic priorities (Moedas, 2015) as Open Innovation, Open Science, and Openness to the World. These three strategic priorities put a particular emphasis on the construction ... -
Official pedagogy, foreign language teaching and literacy: a functionalist perspective
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)The theoretical framework that informs this paper is systemic functional linguistics (Halliday, 1994, Mathiessen, 1995 and Halliday and Mathiessen, 2004). This paper is not meant to be a guide for foreign language teachers ...