IELTS Writing Task 1 | Popular Languages
IELTS Writing Task 1 | Popular Languages IELTS Writing Task 1 | Popular Languages Instructions: Visual data adopted from https://www.ielts-exam.net/ The table above […]
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Humanistic Language Learning | TESL Issues
Humanistic Language Learning Humanistic Language Learning The best introduction to humanistic learning within language education is Stevick (1997, as cited […]
Communicative Language Testing | TESL Issues
Communicative Language Testing Communicative Language Testing The advent of communicative language testing saw a growing preference for face-to-face interaction as […]
Sociocultural Theory in Language Learning | TESL Issues
Sociocultural Theory in Language Learning Sociocultural theory is based on work by the Russian psychologist, Vygotsky, and represents a fundamentally […]
Emergentism in Language Learning | TESL Issues
Emergentism Emergentism is the name that has recently been given to a general approach to cognition that stresses the interaction […]
Lateralization or Localization of the Brain | TESL Issues
Lateralization Lateralization argues that the location of language functions is fixed in one of the brain’s two hemispheres, usually the […]
Functionalist Theories of SLA | TESL Issues
Functionalist Theories of SLA Functionalist theories of L2 acquisition share a number of concerns with variability theories. For example, both […]
Test Specifications in Language Testing | TESL Issues
Test Specifications Test specifications – usually called ‘specs’ – are generative explanatory documents for the creation of test tasks. Specs […]
Competence and Internal Language | TESL Issues
Competence Competence corresponds to the I-language (Internal Language). Competency is the speaker/hearer’s knowledge of his language. It’s an abstract version […]