Bridging the Gap between Education and Employment

English Language Instruction in EFL Contexts

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• Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9783035108422
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Graduate employability is often put forth as a marker of the success of a given institution or education system. High rates of school and university graduates in jobs offer a number of potential advantages for a country, including encouraging social mobility, increasing citizen participation and social stability, and making national economies more productive. The importance of achieving these and many other associated outcomes has recently received greater attention in many developing nations; this is especially the case in those countries where English assumes an important role as a mediator of educational and economic success. A number of authors claim that the gap between education, training and employment can be closed through the development of academic and employment skills such as motivation, time management, literacy and communication competence. This book explores the ways in which communication and literacy skills can be developed through English language instruction in EFL settings to help bring together the aims and outcomes of education and employment.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Introduction (Rahma Al-Mahrooqi & Christopher Denman)
• Teaching Effective Communication Strategies to EFL Learners (K. Thomas Baby)
• The Effect of Teaching Communicative Strategies on Students’ Willingness to Communicate in an Iranian Context (Somayeh Gerami & Jafar Dorri Kafrani)
• Modeling Conditions for Students’ Communication Skills Development by Means of a Modern Educational Environment (Olga Andreevna Obdalova)
• Fostering Oral and Written Communication Skills in EFL via the Use of Student-created Digi-videos (Samia Naqvi & Rahma Al-Mahrooqi)
• Advice among the Flowers: A Learner’s Speech Act (Ann McLellan Howard)
• Investigating Vocabulary Teaching Modules for Preschoolers: The First Phase of a Design Experiment (Siti Bahirah Saidi / Liyana Ahmad Afip / Bazilah Raihan Mat Shawal / Yohan Kurniawan / Julia Tan Yin Yin & Norhaini Mat Lajis)
• The Effect of the First Language on the Pronunciation of Lower Intermediate Omani Students (Jaishree Umale)
• Rhyming and Singing: Tongue Training Toward Second Language Automaticity (Norhaini Hj Mat Lajis)
• Reducing Anxiety through Enhancing Omani EFL Learners’ Emotional Intelligence (Chandrika Balasubamanian & Rahma Al-Mahrooqi)
• EFL Learners’ Anxieties: Tertiary-level Strategies among Omanis (Asfia Khan & Rahma Al-Mahrooqi)
• Communication, Identity and Workplaces in English Language Teaching in the Tertiary System in Oman (Sindhu Harish)
• Constraints on Intercultural and Pragmatic Competence Development in EFL Classroom Contexts (Abdelkader Chaou)
• Culture, Globalization and L2 Education (Tarek Hermessi)
• Cognitive Styles in Intercultural Competence Development when Teaching English to Non-Linguistic Students (Aleksandra V. Soboleva)
• Intercultural Communication and the Negotiation of Local and Foreign Cultures in the EFL Literature Classroom (Rahma Al-Mahrooqi & Christopher Denman)
• Learning from the Margins: Teaching Language, Culture and Communication through World Literature in the EFL Classroom (Sandhya Rao Mehta & Rahma Al-Mahrooqi)
• Taking Charge: Improving EFL Students’ Language Proficiency, Academic Skills and Professional Preparation via Student-led Activities (Rahma Al-Mahrooqi & Khalsa Al-Aghbari)
• Employability, English Proficiency and Communicative Ability in the Arabian Gulf (Rahma Al-Mahrooqi & Christopher Denman)
• Notes on Contributors