This classroom-based research study aims at investigating the effects of assigned roles on students' interaction in groupwork with specific foci on comparing numbers of utterances, lengths of utterances, the nature of exchanges, and functions

curriculum for adult learners must reflect a wide range of real-life tasks and incorporate real-world language functions.

understanding of its roles in electronic educational materials, especially for language learning and teaching. Adopting a social semiotic perspective, this study combines Halliday’s (1994) systemic functional grammar with Kress and Van Leeuwen’s frameworks

Using the framework of CLIL for the content and ESP for the language functions, this research investigated and analyzed the needs of current MA students, MA graduates and prospective employers as the basis for designing a textbook for an elective... course entitled English for International Business. The results of a survey of 42 MA students, 48 MA graduates, and 35 prospective employers of MA graduates revealed what topics of international business and what English language functions in writing

, and Comment were all found in inter-activity transitions but Starter and Comment were not identified in intra-activity transitions. The forms and functions of Meta-statement were different but the context positions remained the same for these two types

Prosody is a linguistic feature in spoken English that is complex yet plays an important role in oral communication. Nevertheless, many EFL pronunciation classes in Thailand have not adequately emphasized the importance and functions of prosody

This study examines student-teachers’ opinions about the spread of the English in general, and the ramifications of its spread as to its co-existence with other languages, speaker profiles, and probable extensions in form and function in two.... Additionally, most students believed that the increasing number of non-native English speakers would impact the way English is used by speakers in non-Anglophone contexts in terms of forms and functions. The findings offer some implications as to the factors

attention. The present study is based on feedback given to four candidates on three iterations of their PhD proposals. It examines the types and frequency of the different language functions the supervisor uses. The results show that there is significant

of understanding on the form and meaning of English grammatical structure and were capable of applying them functionally correctly. Moreover, they had a lot of satisfaction with the constructivist learning approach especially toward the group-work, the learning