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The Asian EFL Journal Quarterly
March 2008
Volume 10, Issue 1
Senior Editors: Paul Robertson and Roger Nunn
The Asian EFL Journal, March/2008, Volume 10, Number 1
Published by the Asian EFL Journal Press
Asian EFL Journal Press
A Division of Time Taylor International Ltd
Time Taylor College
Daen dong
Busan, Korea
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ISSN 1738-1460
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The Asian EFL Journal, March/2008, Volume 10, Number 1
Table of Contents:
Foreword by Roger Nunn…………………..……………………….. 4-6
1. Kyoung Rang Lee and Rebecca Oxford ….………………………….. 7-32
- Understanding EFL Learners’ Strategy Use and Strategy Awareness
2. Mohammad Rahimi…………………………………………..……. 33-47
- Using Dictation to Improve Language Proficiency
3. Souvannasy Bouangeune, Masashi Sakigawa and Yukiko Hirakawa.. 48-64
English
- Determinants and Issues in Student Achievement in
at Lao Secondary Education Level
4. Junko Otoshi and Neil Heffernan…………………………………. 65-78
Factors Predicting Effective Oral Presentations in EFL Classrooms
5. Chi Yen Chiu…….…………………………..……………………. 79-110
- The Discourse of an English Teacher in a Cyber Writing Course:
Roles and Autonomy
6. Nguyen Thi Mai Hoa………….…………………………………… 111-132
- Mentoring beginning EFL teachers at tertiary level in Vietnam
7. Zhu Xinhua……………………………………………….……. …. 133-153
- Is Syntactic Maturity a Reliable Measurement to Investigate
the Relationship between English Speaking and Writing?
8. Mahmood Rouhani.…………………………….………….….…… 154-180
- Another look at the C-Test: A Validation Study
with Iranian EFL Learners
9. Jeng-yih Tim Hsu and Chu-yao Chiu………………………..…..………. 181-204
- Lexical Collocations and their Relation to Speaking Proficiency
10. Lu-Fang Lin…………………………….…………………………..…… 205-227
- The Study of English Learners’ Synthesizing Process While Reading
11. Nilton Hitotuzi…………………………………………………………. 228-258
- An Economical Approach towards Interaction in the L2 Classroom:
A Task-based Learning Experiment
12. Daniela Nikolova……………………………………………….………. 259-274
- English-teaching in Elementary Schools in Japan:
A Review of a Current Government Survey
Book Reviews
1. Assessing Language through Computer Technology
Carol A. Chapelle and Dan Douglas
Reviewed by Deepti Gupta……………………………………………… 275-276
2. Literature and Stylistics for Language Learners: Theory and Practice
Greg Watson and Sonia Zyngier (Eds.)
Reviewed by Vander Viana……………………………………………… 277-278
3. Practical English Language Teaching: Speaking
Kathleen M. Bailey
Reviewed by Aysha Viswamohan and Hannah M. Sanala……………. 279-281
4. Culturally Contested Pedagogy: Battles of Literacy and Schooling
between Mainstream Teachers and Asian Immigrant Parents
Guofang Li
Reviewed by Ozgur Yildirim…………………………………………… 282-283
sian EFL Journal editorial information and guidelines………………........ 284-290
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The Asian EFL Journal, March/2008, Volume 10, Number 1
Foreword
In this first issue of 2008 we are delighted to be able to present such a wide variety of studies
conducted by Asian researchers. This issue marks the tenth anniversary of the Asian EFL
Journal. We are both proud of our growth as an academic forum for teachers and researchers,
and grateful for the hard work and dedication of our reviewers and editorial team.
Lee and Oxford, in Understanding EFL Learners’ Strategy Use and Strategy
Awareness, focus on the influence of strategy awareness, English-learning self-image and
the importance of English in the Korean context. They found that students who valued
English as important, evaluated their own proficiency as high and were already aware of a
variety of language learning strategies employed learning strategies more frequently than
those who did not. While gender and major were expected to be helpful indicators of
successful learning, Lee and Oxford found that they did not affect strategy use and
awareness unless combined with other variables, concluding that emphasizing strategy use
based on gender or majors could be promoting a stereotype.
In Using Dictation to Improve Language Proficiency, Mohammad Rahimi revisists an
old debate about the value of dictation as both a teaching and a testing tool. Rahimi focuses
on the former. Rahimi concludes that dictation can be considered a good learning technique
to improve learners’ proficiency. In the study, improvement was recorded in grammar,
vocabulary, reading, and listening comprehension, while the control group showed
improvement only in vocabulary. As Rahimi points out, improvements in proficiency are
difficult to pin down to a single cause and the period of incubation needs careful
consideration. The fact that the post-test was done after around ten months leads to different
possible interpretations.
In their study, Bouangeune, Sakigawa and Hirakawa look at the challenges facing an
English education system which is in its infancy. The research for Determinants and issues
in student achievement in English at Lao Secondary Education Level was located in Laos
and investigates the proficiency level of Lao secondary school students. They identify a
need to focus more on the learning of basic vocabulary, and to simplify the textbooks.
Otoshi and Heffernan, in Factors Predicting Effective Oral Presentations in EFL
Classrooms discuss the criteria EFL learners consider to be important when making
presentations. They provide a useful checklist as a basis for similar studies. This paper
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