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(2008)This study investigates whether EFL learners can improve their reading rates and comprehension by timed reading. The results showed a significant improvement (an increase) in reading rate in the slow readers and in ...
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(2007)This study examined L2 poverty-of-the-stimulus problem, namely, the L2 acquisition of “parasitic gap constructions” in English by adult native speakers of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. First, the counterparts of the ...
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(2006)Despite the emphasis on autonomy, lots of research has emphasized the role of instructor or the materials. Noticing the significant role of students as agents for their autonomous learning, this study intends to hear voices ...
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(2008)This study investigates ESL learners’ preferences and opinions of two gloss types and their actual effort to read the glosses to understand the text. Particularly, in an online reading text, glosses were provided by ...
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(1987)This study examines goals, microskills, and objectives for a potential foreign teaching assistants (FTAs) course in the ELI program, focusing on the development of speaking skills of FTAs. Based on Brown’s curriculum model, ...
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(2011)This study investigated English as a second language students' language needs in an academic listening and speaking course at an American university and examined whether the course met their needs. Prior to the data ...
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(2012-05-12)This study conducted a needs analysis of ELI 72 (Reading for Foreign Students) to contribute to the continued development of ELI 72 by identifying any ongoing needs that should be addressed, or addressed in more depth. ...
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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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(2010)The current evaluation study on a university-level language program intends to determine the viability of using a specific Virtual Learning Environment in all classes at the program. The evaluation that ensued followed a ...
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(2001)This study investigates patterns of connectors in L2 academic writing and the effects of instruction on students’ output in the use of connectors. Specifically, the current study examines 1) how ESL learners’ writing ...
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(2013-05-01)This dissertation uses conversation analysis (CA) to examine English L2 speakers’ participation in an innovative multiparty pragmatic assessment activity. In contrast to previous interlanguage pragmatics research, this ...
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(1997)This preliminary study reports the results of needs analysis, which assesses the degree to which the English Language Institute (ELI) satisfies the program objectives for oral proficiency and how the concerned parties ...
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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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(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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(2007)This paper presents an analysis of the academic listening test (ALT) utilizing Rasch analysis, which has been utilized as a test development method. Through the analysis this study investigates what has been measured at ...
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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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(2007)This essay reports on reflections on experience of teaching ESL reading. By reflecting on diverse aspects of teaching ranging from establish students’ achievement goals, classroom managements, technology, materials, ...
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(2007)The study aimed to explore the relationship between learning strategy, motivation, and autonomy especially focusing on L2 vocabulary learning. Assuming that autonomous learning is essential for L2 vocabulary learning, it ...
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Rethinking Needs in an English Language Program: Three Case Studies in English for Academic Purposes (1998)Individual case studies were undertaken to investigate the English listening and speaking needs of three international students at an American university. The purpose of this research was to determine how well the English ...
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(2008)As part of continuing efforts to improve the overall efficiency of the ELI, and especially the ELI placement test (ELIPT), this project investigates an oral interview procedure that re-assesses learners’ language proficiency ...