The need for a balanced approach to all the components of communicative competence in language teaching is extensively proven from a theoretical standpoint. In practice, however, the linguistic dimension, particularly the ...

Articolul reprezintă o sinteză a câteva studii ce investighează asimilarea de vocabular prin intermediul lecturii în limba engleză. Trei tipuri de abordări în raport cu trei teorii privind asimilarea de vocabular (ipoteza ...

Developing sociolinguistic competence has been deemed a delicate and controversial task in EFL for a number of reasons. Among these is the fact that foreign language learners come to classes with this competence already ...

This article explores the manifold benefits students at tertiary level can get from developing a passion for reading and handling a variety of strategies to retrieve, above literal meaning, a valuable asset of extra-linguistic ...