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Bouchaib Benzehaf Chouaib Doukkali UniversityKeywords: Language proficiency, CAF measures, writing Abstract Since complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) have been suggested as measures of language development (Larsen-Freeman, 1978), a heated debate has surrounded the issue of whether they can sufficiently capture the multi-dimensional facets of language proficiency and be reliable indices of language proficiency levels. Contributing […]

Shantha Sambath National Institute of Technology https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7129-0813Mekala Sethuraman National Institute of TechnologyKeywords: Affective factors, engineering students, oral communicative tasks, speaking constraints, spoken proficiency Abstract Spoken proficiency in English has become indispensable in engineering industry. It is expected of an engineering student to possess requisite spoken proficiency for his/her career growth prospects. The paper focuses on

Robert Joel DeaconNagoya University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2260-4062Keywords: Arabic ESL, orthographic competence, orthographic transfer, spelling, vowel blindness Abstract This study investigates the possible cause(s) of English spelling errors by Arabic learners of English (ALEs). Studies show that ALEs make significantly more English spelling errors than other English second-language learner groups. Studies also show ALEs make more errors with

İsmail Hakkı Erten Hacettepe University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8527-5681Hüseyin Öz Hacettepe University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6512-4931Keywords: editorial Abstract Dear EJAL Readers, Welcome to our latest issue. We are proud to be releasing our Volume 3, Issue 2, thus completing three full years of hard work. Having started in 2015, we were delighted to experience an ever increasing interest in EJAL and

Mehmet Akıncı Şehir UniversitySenem Yıldız Boğaziçi UniversityKeywords: Corpora, corpus consultation, collocation, vocabulary instruction, data-driven learning Abstract This study examined the effectiveness of data-driven learning (DDL), explicit instruction and these two methods combined in teaching verb+noun (V+N) collocations to advanced Turkish learners of English. Recognition accuracy of V+N collocations was measured along with participants’ judgment about

Roman Olegovich Lesnov Northern Arizona UniversityKeywords: Audio, second language, listening test, video, content visuals Abstract The question as to whether an assessment construct of second language (L2) listening comprehension should include the decoding of visual information remains unanswered (see Buck, 2001; Ockey, 2007). This study aimed to fill this gap by investigating how audio-only and

Jabbar Al Muzzamil Fareen SRM UniversityKeywords: English for Placement Purposes (EPP), English Proficiency Course (EPC), on-campus recruitment drive, needs analysis, productive skills, syllabus design Abstract The instrumentality for conducting a specific needs based placement course in an engineering programme is to develop relevant employability skills of the technical students to cater to the communicative demands

Adrian Leis Miyagi University of EducationMatthew Wilson Miyagi UniversityKeywords: L2 Learning Motivation, Self-worth Theory, Assessment, Japanese university students, vocabulary acquisition Abstract The aim of this study was to test a scoring method for regular testing proposed by the authors which provides feedback on test results to each student based upon his or her increases or

Ali Akbar Ansarin University of TabrizSolmaz Saeeidi Manesh University of TabrizKeywords: Bilingual memory, Priming, Semantic priming, Masked semantic priming, Lexical decision Abstract The psycholinguistics field has long been concerned with bilinguals’ mental lexicon; the way bilinguals restore words in their mental lexicon and the way they retrieve them. So the representation of languages in bilingual

Mowla Miri Allameh Tabataba’I UniversityGoudarz Alibakhshi Allameh Tabataba’I UniversityAli Kushki Shiraz UniversityPeyman Salehpour Bavarsad Lorestan UniversityKeywords: Dynamic Assessment, Group Dynamic Assessment (G-DA), Concurrent and Cumulative GDA, Sociocultural Theory Abstract This paper reports on a study delving into the efficiency of two types of Group-Dynamic Assessment (GDA, concurrent and cumulative) in teaching English articles. To this