Designing Language Courses comprises 10 chapters on various aspects of course design,
including areas such as “Assessing Needs,”“Formulating Goals and Objectives,”“Developing …

Many ESL/EFL practitioners, especially writing teachers, realize that the article system (ie, a,
the, and 0) is a very difficult aspect of English syntax to learn and acquire. A few methods of …

It has been observed that hedges, linguistic devices indicating less than complete certainty
or commitment regarding information put forth, occur quite frequently in scientific discourse …

Computerized text analysis programs (concordancers) are now available for use on
personal computers. Drawing upon experimental work done at Sultan Qaboos University …

The English article system can be taught as a binary division between classification (a and
Ø) and identification (the). All the other elements of article usage can be understood within …

This paper describes several reasons for the difficulty non-native speakers of English have
in acquiring the English article system and reviews five pedagogical methods for teaching …

The English article system consists of four items: a, an (a phonetic variant), the, and 0 (the
zero article). 1 The simplicity of the words that make up the system masks the complexity of …

The use of active verbs with inanimate subjects (eg, A thermometer measures temperature)
is a prevalent phenomenon in scientific prose. However, many students, particularly those …

Despite high frequency and early input, English articles (the, a, and the zero article Ø)
remain a generally acknowledged marked feature for [–Article] Chinese learners. The …

The purpose of the study is to examine the potential for teaching articles using lexical
bundles with adult English language learners of varying proficiency levels. Participants were …