Developing Ideas in Writing: How Deep Can Lower Intermediate Learners Dig on their Own?
Development of ideas is always one of the crucial elements in any writing assessment. Some learners especially the good ones do not have...
Zanurin bin Mohamad Safar
Dec 29, 2018
Developing Varied Sentence Structures among Intermediate ESL Writers through e-CoR
A common weakness in writing is the lack of varied sentences. Yet, having varied sentence structures is always one of the crucial...
Zanurin bin Mohamad Safar
Dec 21, 2018
TEACHING GRAMMAR: SOME REALITIES IN MALAYSIAN CLASSROOMS
Grammar gains its prominence in language teaching, particularly in English as a second language (ESL) or English as a foreign language...
Zanurin bin Mohamad Safar
Dec 18, 2018
REVISITING HUMANISTIC LANGUAGE TEACHING: AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH TO PROMOTE FUN AND ENGAGEMENT IN ES
INTRODUCTION Humanistic approach which was introduced by scholars like Erickson, Roger, and Maslow began to spread to the field of second...
Zanurin bin Mohamad Safar
Dec 4, 2018
Understanding Disaffected Learners in ESL Classrooms
INTRODUCTION Have you heard of someone saying this statement, “Learners aren’t learning because teachers aren’t teaching”. Well, this can...
Zanurin bin Mohamad Safar
Nov 26, 2018
COMMON VERBS LOWER INTERMEDIATE LEARNERS SHOULD MASTER FOR NARRATIVE AND DESCRIPTIVE ESSAYS IN SPM 1
Every sentence written in any essay has at least a verb. Intermediate learners always have problems using verbs accurately. It is also a...
Zanurin bin Mohamad Safar
Nov 24, 2018
COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE ACTIVITIES (COLA) FOR LOWER INTERMEDIATE ESL LEARNERS: SOME POINTS TO BE TAKE
Lower intermediate or weak ESL learners definitely have some limitations when it comes to communicative language activities. Most of them...
Zanurin bin Mohamad Safar
Nov 20, 2018
