"This M.A. thesis aims to find out how socio-cultural context influences foreign language Spanish learners from different nationalities to communicate in spanish. This study will provide insights on how participants perceive ...

"This study reports on students and teachers’ perceptions towards out of the classroom activities carried out in english. The activity selected in this research was a play which is presented every year in a technological ...

Speech acts take part of the illocutionary force; it refers to the intended impact the speaker addresses to the listener, moreover, means the knowledge of communicative action and how is it carried out. For example, the ...

"Voltaire once said: “with great power comes great responsibility.” There might be a slight confusion how voltaire’s original concept could be connected in any way to our field of ELT. English has become a powerful language, ...

"These days technological tools are being used in the teaching process more frequently and they create a widely different learning environment which offer web-enhanced instruction via internet based resources and systems. ...

"Third language acquisition is considered a new trend in language research. As such, it has been developing several theories related to cross-linguistic influence throughout the last decades. This research project intends ...

"The existence of Mexican students with academic experience in American schools is becoming common in Mexican institutions due to the new patterns of migration. In the past, men left their families and migrated to the ...

"Due to the lack of established programs to achieve the objectives to obtain a high-staketest, the need of designing a test preparation program is essential and important. Theproficiency competence needs to be developed ...

"This study was inspired after observing the differences between English learners oftwo different faculties at a public university. These differences seem to have relation to thelearners‟ performance towards learning a ...

"Learning a foreign language, most of the time, occurs in an instructional setting where the language is taught to a group of foreign language learners (Lightbown & Spada, 2006). In this setting, sometimes language teachers ...