ABSTRACT _The emerging paradigm shift in educational contexts from walled classroom environments to virtual, hybrid, blended, and lately personal learning environments has brought about vast changes in the foreign language classroom practices. Numerous calls for experimenting with new instructional treatments to enhance students' language performance in these new learning environments have been voiced by researchers and language educators in different ... إقراء المزيد

ABSTRACT _The last few years have witnessed an increased interest in moving away from traditional language instruction settings towards more hybrid and virtual learning environments. Face-to-face interaction, guided practice, and uniformity of knowledge sources and skills are all replaced by settings where multiplicity of views from different learning communities, interconnectedness, self-directedness, and self-management of knowledge and learning are increasingly emphasized. ... إقراء المزيد

ABSTRACT _The last few years have witnessed a paradigm shift in educational settings where language educators and practitioners have turned their focus from traditional face-to-face classroom practices to more hybrid and virtual language teaching/learning methodologies. This paradigm shift gained momentum with the introduction of Web 2.00 tools and wikis and the increased tendency in education and workplace towards more technology-driven ... إقراء المزيد

ABSTRACT _The last few years have witnessed a paradigm shift in educational settings where language educators and practitioners have turned their focus from traditional face-to-face classroom practices to more hybrid and virtual language teaching/learning methodologies. This paradigm shift gained momentum with the introduction of Web 2.00 tools and wikis and the increased tendency in education and workplace towards more technology-driven ... إقراء المزيد

_ABSTRACT_ _ __The current study examined the epistemological beliefs of gifted EFL students compared to non-gifted ones at the Saudi Arabian context. More specifically, the study investigated how far epistemological beliefs can be potential predictors of gifted EFL students’ goal orientation, cognitive engagement, perceived linguistic competence and achievement. Four tools were used for data collection, including an Epistemological Beliefs Questionnaire, ... إقراء المزيد

TASK 1 COMPILE A LIST OF THE SUBSKILLS OF LISTENING COMPREHENSION THAT YOU SHOULD FOCUS ON WHEN TEACHING YOUR PREPARATORY EFL STUDENTS. GIVE AN EXAMPLE ACTIVITY FOR DEVELOPING EACH OF THESE SKILLS AND DESCRIBE THE PROCEDURES IN DETAIL. إقراء المزيد

TASK 9: How should EFL teachers respond to their students’ oral and written mistakes/errors? Support your answer with examples. إقراء المزيد

TASK 8: What is the difference between bottom-up and top-down approaches to teaching reading? Discuss how you would use both in teaching a given reading selection to your secondary school students إقراء المزيد

TASK 7: Cite five reading strategies/activities you are likely to use in your EFL classes and describe the procedures in detail. إقراء المزيد

TASK 6: Select a conversation/dialogue from the English textbooks assigned to intermediate school students and explain in detail how you would teach it to those students. إقراء المزيد