English as a Foreign Language in Saudi Arabia


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English as a Foreign Language in Saudi Arabia: New Insights into Teaching and Learning English offers a detailed discussion of key aspects of teaching and learning English in the Saudi context and offers a comprehensive overview of related research authored or co-authored by Saudi researchers. It provides readers with an understanding of the unique cultural, linguistic, and historical context of English in Saudi Arabia—with a focus on the principal factors that may influence successful teaching and learning of English in this country. Uniquely, the book looks separately at issues pertaining to in-country English learning and learners, and those pertaining to in-country English teaching and teachers. The volume also explores issues concerning Saudi learners and teachers in overseas contexts. Lastly, the book touches on the future of English as a Foreign Language and TESOL in Saudi Arabia and its implications for the field.




Cross-nationally Comparative, Evidence-based Educational Policymaking and Reform


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In this volume scholars and policymakers examine how large-scale assessments and quantitative data are used to inform policy-making at all levels of education worldwide, and how data can be used to better understand specific national and regional educational challenges.



















Changing Research and Practice


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First Published in 1996. Arising from the 7th International Study Association on Teacher Thinking (ISATT) conference in 1995, this book presents a diverse, yet integrated, approach to understanding how research and practice in classrooms are changing.




COGNITIVE LOAD THEORY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF COMPUTER-ASSISTED ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING


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One fundamental task of effective schooling is to enable individual pupils to become active learners who assume responsibility for acquiring knowledge and skill and sustain a pattern of self-directed, lifelong learning" (Wang and Perverly, 1987). Educationists have tried a number of learning approaches to enhance learning of pupils. Some of them have been more effective than others. The learning approaches used in the last three decades include individual learning, peer tutoring, paired learning, collaborative learning, mastery learning and co-operative learning.