[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 11 | June 27, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Abstract The paper’s focus is the preferred means of learning of students on an academic writing course at the…
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 11 | June 27, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Abstract This article reports on a qualitative case study of an advanced ESL class for adult learners at a…
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 9 | June 6, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036]
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This article reports on a part of the development and validation project for the English Vocabulary Profile (EVP). The previous version of the EVP included 439 phrasal verbs as well as 4,666 individual word entries. Each of their meanings is ordered according to its CEFR level. The aims of the study are to identify the actual difficulty of each phrasal verb, to validate the tentative decision of the CEFR levels, and also to explore factors that explain the difficulties, by using textbook corpora. In order to carry out this research, we developed a phrasal verb test of 100 items, consisting of four A1 items, nineteen A2 items, forty B1 items and thirty-seven B2 items.