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Browsing Department of Second Language Studies by Issue Date
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(2003)The purpose of this study is to analyze the needs that distinguish the separate and/or overlapping goals of undergraduate students and graduate students in the ELI 73 course. Although undergraduate and graduate students ...
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(2004)In order to facilitate improvement of an effective academic writing curriculum, this study analyzes the separate and/or overlapping writing needs of beginning undergraduate students and graduate students in an intermediate ...
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(2004)This qualitative study investigates student attitudes in university-level ESL composition classes in both an in-class and an asynchronous on-line setting. Student and teacher interviews, classroom observations, and writing ...
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(2004)This study discusses feminism and feminist pedagogy in general, and presents pedagogical implications for ES/FL teaching practices. In particular, feminist pedagogy emphasizes empowerment and students’ coming to voice. ...
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(2004)This project investigates the creation of a test administration system with the ability to serve users both in centralized and geographically distributed contexts, and that is upgradeable in the type and format of test ...
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(2004)Inspired by the limitation of current listening/speaking diagnostics at ELI, which lacks feedback directed to students, developing rating scales for oral presentation and group discussion activities was deemed useful. After ...
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(2004)This study attempts to yield a better understanding of the difficulties international students are facing in their socialization process into North-American academic culture through leading discussion circles in their ESL ...
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(2004)This study investigates differences in vocabulary knowledge as a potential explanation for perceived differences between placed and promoted students in a university EAP reading course. Students in an advanced reading ...
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(2005)This study attempts to examine test fairness in terms of sub-group bias (gender and educational level) and validity of ELI placement test. Four components of the test including academic listening, dictation, cloze test, ...
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(2005)This study reports on the development of criterion-referenced test (CRT) for students’ awareness on plagiarism and examines learners’ ability to properly cite the sources. Based on plagiarism module created by Mark Messer ...
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(2005)This research investigates ways of supporting students’ development of L2 academic literacies. Specifically, the study seeks to (1) describe theories and research on critical literacies and writing development and (2) ...
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(2005)This research proposal will investigate the effect of learners’ proficiency on the provision of implicit negative feedback and the incorporation of the feedback. The study will be a descriptive and exploratory study as it ...
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(2005)The current study intends to examine listening comprehension strategies of ESL college students in comprehending their real-world academic lectures. Specifically, through survey method, it intends to answer questions such ...
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(2005)This study investigated 67 writing samples from a placement test which were placed into two different levels. The purpose of the study was threefold. One was to see if there is a difference among the two levels in terms ...
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(2005)The present study was designed to (a) test the notion that the cloze procedure is related to the idea of closure in Gestalt psychology and (b) investigate the degree to which specific language skills (grammar knowledge, ...
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(2005)This paper proposes a task-based approach to developing the discussion skills of ESL students’ listening/speaking class, dealing mostly with the methodological considerations for task-based syllabus and lesson designs. It ...
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(2005)This paper reports on the process of developing vocabulary test items to be included in English Language Institute (ELI) reading placement test. In developing test items for the ELI Vocabulary Test, a subset of reading ...
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(2005)The occurrence of plagiarism in L2 writing has been explained as arising from cultural differences and from a perceived lack in ESL students’ ability to write ‘in their own words’ and to follow English academic writing ...
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(2006)The current study investigates the reliability estimates of the newly adopted writing placement test at ELI. To examine whether three raters’ judgment on learner level were consistent enough to justify the placement, ...
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(2006)In a Curriculum Area Meeting (CAM) at ELI, dynamics in dialogues emerge with regards to different group dynamics, participation patterns and language uses. This is assumed to be attributed to the many interweaving identities ...