SELF-POLICING IN THE ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM

The present study explores how classroom participants invoke a monolingual target-language policy in an English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom, specifically focusing on one method of doing language policy through...

THE ATTITUDE AND THE IMPACT OF THE AMERICAN ENGLISH AS A GLOBAL LANGUAGE WITHIN THE SAUDI EDUCATION SYSTEM

This paper investigates the impact of 9/11 on the educational system in Saudi Arabia. In particular, it discusses how this phenomenon took its course to influence the English teaching system in Saudi Arabia, and the atti...

SHOULD WE USE AMERICAN ENGLISH TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ LISTENING SKILLS?

THE ROLE OF GIVEN INFORMATION ON THE SPEED OF THE COMPREHENSION OF CONTEXT AND NON-CONTEXT BASED INFORMATION IN EFL LEARNERS

The significance of comprehension in the process of second language learning/ acquisition seems to be admitted in almost all current theories. The present research studies the impact of given information on comprehension...

PARENTS’ MORAL DISCUSSIONS ABOUT STRATEGIES FOR MONITORING CHILDREN’S MEDIA EXPOSURE

Media technology is part of a rich interplay of socio-cultural artifacts and practices. Parents greet each new medium with a mixture of fear and hope, and they increasingly acknowledge that media present new challenges f...