Blog

This section explores the results to the second research question: opportunities to improve English education. Specific opportunities explored in this section include an expansion of offerings, offering more assistance outside of class, increased training for—and

This section explores the results to the first research question: the appropriateness of graduate-level English instruction. It first explores the school’s policy on EMI, then explores a number of issues raised by the data, including

A much larger number of English communication courses have been provided for undergraduate students through the EFL Program: in the spring semester of 2012, for example, two English communication courses with 15 sections were offered

The second theme in the literature explores ways to strengthen education in English communication for graduate engineering students who speak ESL/EFL. The next several subsections explore specific issues in this area, including methods for improving

Theoretical Orientation According to Johnson and Swain [13], the main principle of immersion education is that the target language is used as the medium of instruction so that students receive comprehensible input before making comprehensible

Under the increasing influence of globalization, many Asian governments have begun university reforms to enhance educational competitiveness and national competence in a globalizing economy. Subsequently, internationalization has impelled the restructuring of higher education institutions in

Preparation for a learner experiment For a learner experiment, we trained the prediction model with the entire BU corpus and the detection model with the entire KLEAC corpus. In the feedback part, we set θ1

Our results indicate that native Mandarin listeners could understand the English minimal pairs produced by native Mandarin speakers better than native English and EnglishMandarin bilingual listeners did. This is consistent with the findings in Bent

There are many factors influencing the intelligibility of speech for non-native listeners. One of which is called the Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit (ISIB) suggested by Bent and Bradlow [1]. They conducted an experiment asking native

Traditional education methodologies, where an instructor teaches non-native learners, might be expensive and constrained with regard to time and space. However, frequent and repetitive practice is necessary for language acquisition. As a result, Computer-Assisted Language