For discourse to be comprehensible and cohesive, you have to know who does what to whom when and where. Information about entities, time, space, and actions has to be carefully tracked and managed from one utterance to the next. This is achieved through a process known as anaphoric linking or reference tracking. The importance of this phenomenon is crucial in listening classes as listening is among those demanding skills in which EFL learners have to cope with vast ranges of linguistic, paralinguistic and even pragmalinguistic features. In this regard, this book describes an innovative...
For discourse to be comprehensible and cohesive, you have to know who does what to whom when and where. Information about entities, time, space, and a...
Nowadays, language schools tend to include oral exams as part of their course completion assessment instruments along with their traditional written exams. Language learners experience a lot of anxiety during such exams. This books describes research on high/low students' oral performance in relation to interviewers' gender and interview topic. It also examines interviewees' beliefs on oral exams as well as addresses the relationship between anxiety, interviewers' gender, interview topic, and interviewees' oral performance. Studying this book can help EFL teachers, oral exam administrators...
Nowadays, language schools tend to include oral exams as part of their course completion assessment instruments along with their traditional written e...
