• Promoting learner autonomy through self-assessment and reflectionPromoting learner autonomy through self-assessment and reflection

    Abstract: This paper describes how leaner autonomy was promoted through self-assessment and reflection activities. The research aims to help students explore their inner strength of working independently outside the classroom and self-assess their own skills with the ultimate aim to improve their listening and speaking performance. Based on the ...

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  • The vietnam syndrome in Forrest Gump movie scriptThe vietnam syndrome in Forrest Gump movie script

    Abstract: Considered the most controversial war in the 20th century, the Vietnam War deeply divides the American society. Especially, it causes the Vietnam Syndrome which still is an obsession of American people until today. The research is carried out on a movie script of one of the most famous Hollywood films about the Vietnam War, Forrest Gum...

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  • The role of learners’ test perception in changing English learning practices: A case of a high-stakes English test at Vietnam national university, HanoiThe role of learners’ test perception in changing English learning practices: A case of a high-stakes English test at Vietnam national university, Hanoi

    Abstract: Among various factors influencing foreign language learning, learners’ perception of a highstakes language test plays a crucial part, especially when the test serves as a threshold for their university graduation. In this study, the researcher tested a washback effect model by focusing on test-takers’ perception of the high-stakes test ...

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  • The connectedness between organizational time/space and experienced time/space from the perspective of an online distance studentThe connectedness between organizational time/space and experienced time/space from the perspective of an online distance student

    Abstract: This research problematizes the conception of time and space in online distance education. It argues that online distance education is constructed from different times and spaces, namely those as organized by the institutions and those as experienced by the distance learners. In essence, it seeks to unfold how these organizational time...

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  • Teacher characteristics: What do efl preservice teachers expect?Teacher characteristics: What do efl preservice teachers expect?

    Abstract: Desirable characteristics of TEFL (Teacher of English as a Foreign Language) have recently presented a major concern for researchers, particularly in the realm of teacher education. However, no matter how large the number of research projects conducted in the field is, very few ever investigated the perspective of pre-service teachers....

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  • Language and power in a WTO director - general’s speech - A critical discourse analysisLanguage and power in a WTO director - general’s speech - A critical discourse analysis

    Abstract: The paper is aimed at exploring ideological power relations of globalization discourse through the analysis of the speech ‘The Backlash against Globalization’ of WTO’s Director-General Mike Moore based on one of the Discourse Analysis (DA) approaches - Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). At first, the paper sets out the theoretical fram...

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  • Conceptual metaphors using English nautical expressionsConceptual metaphors using English nautical expressions

    Abstract: This study was conducted to investigate metaphors relating to nautical expressions. Among a number of approaches, cognitive semantics introduced by Saeed (2005) is adopted in this study. Besides, the insight into metaphor in terms of image schemata mainly has its foundation from the theory of conceptual metaphors established by Lakoff ...

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  • Engagement with language: A potential construct in peer interaction researchEngagement with language: A potential construct in peer interaction research

    Abstract: Language learners spend a considerable amount of time interacting with other learners in both second and foreign language classrooms. The idea that peer interaction has increasingly been considered a context for language learning has been matched by a growing body of research examining different aspects of peer talk. Previous literatur...

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  • Affect in expressive speech acts by the judges of the voice UK versus the voice VietnamAffect in expressive speech acts by the judges of the voice UK versus the voice Vietnam

    Abstract: Appraisal Theory by Martin and White (2005) has increasingly claimed its potential in discourse analysis studies, highlighting the speakers’ and writers’ evaluations of people, entities, and events. This paper adopts Martin and White’s Appraisal framework for the purpose of determining the Affect in the expressives made by the judges o...

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  • Turn-taking strategies used in a New Zealand radio interview programme and pedagogical implications in language classroomsTurn-taking strategies used in a New Zealand radio interview programme and pedagogical implications in language classrooms

    Abstract: The present paper analyses conversational strategies employed by the interviewer on a New Zealand radio programme from conversation analysis (CA) perspective. This study employs a documentary method of interpretation in order to seek answer(s) to the research question. Specifically, Sacks, Schegloff and Jefferson’s (1974) model of conv...

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