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Let’s begin with a story. David decided to learn to drive quite late in life. On one of his last...
Let’s begin with a story. David decided to learn to drive quite late in life. On one of his last...
IntroductionIn this article, the author shares some experienced English language teachers’ practices to develop Young Learners’ critical thinking for speaking....
While reading the feedback I received from students who followed my English courses at university last semester, I came across...
IntroductionIn Korea, students undergo years of formal English instruction that heavily emphasises the importance of mastering grammar rules and improving...
Speaking is an important skill for learners’ academic mastery, as active participation in discussions with their teachers and peers requires...
Prologue:‘Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth...
Good oral skills are essential to language learners. The ability to discuss, argue and ask questions about the subject matter...
Fluency, accuracy, appropriacy and complexity are topics teachers may associate when talking about students’ oral communication. Students have to use...
Previous research (Roth et al, 2002; Storch & Whitehurst, 2002 among others) has found oral language skills (vocabulary, syntactic awareness,...
One occasion that I have noticed tends to throw teachers off balance is when a significantly smaller number of students...