Learning style instruments are widely used but not enough is known about their reliability
and validity and their impact on pedagogy in post-16 learning. This report documents work …

This book provides theoretical and pedagogical perspectives on teaching speaking within a
coherent methodological framework. Teaching Speaking A Holistic Approach brings …

This article considers whether the use of specific communication strategies can improve
learners' English proficiency in communicative tasks. Japanese college students (n= 62) …

In Europe, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is becoming a popular and
widespread practice of immersion education. In the Netherlands, for example, over 90 …

This study examines compensation strategies (techniques for dealing with knowledge gaps
between learner and interlocutor), relates them to synoptic and ectenic learning (Ehrman …

This thesis is a pedagogically-motivated study of the genre of 'PhD thesis'. Variation in the
macrostructure of such texts is investigated in a corpus of sixteen theses, half of which …

This study focuses on the relationship between learning styles and language learning
strategies in the EFL context in China. The study presents two kinds of data: quantitative and …

Although the ability to speak is usually seen as a key manifestation of learners' ability in the
target language they are attempting to master, research has not given ample attention to …

Second language learners encounter communication problems when they attempt to use
the target language. One way to overcome the problems is using effective strategies. Thus …

This study focuses on the relationship between cognitive styles and learning strategies of
184 second-year English majors from the Foreign Language School of a university in …