Corpus-Based Study of Chinese EFL Learners’ Use of Adverbial Ing-clauses

According to the results, the first-year university students tend to focus on Academic Importance of English as their primary goal; they are aware of their weak skills and

procedural knowledge and their intelligibility in actual oral communication, and through the analysis of teachers' perceptions of frequency and seriousness of

Further, the genders and educational level (graduate and post- graduate) have taken into consideration to understand the specific issues and challenges, which will

Although the pilot study responses may be useful for creating rating scales, and the pilot test video responses could even be used to train independent raters, it is

In this study, we discussed the importance of using authentic evidence in English education; we also found that spoken language data, which has previously received

Another difference between the role plays with the Japanese speakers and those with the native English speakers was that the Japanese speakers tended to repeat the IFID more

The types of oral proficiency assessments used in the current study were a face- to-face interview test based on the IELTS model, a group semi-direct integrated speaking test based

In addition to the VocD, Guiraud‟s Root type-token ratio was used to analyze the lexical diversity in the respective writing tasks between the two years‟