AUA Open Access Publishing: Recent submissions

  • Beyond PBT TOEFL: The Effectiveness of an Academic Skills writing course 
    Gasparyan, Syuzanna (2015-11-04)
    The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of a five-week academic writing skills course on students’ writing ability. Two hundred incoming students participated in a pre ...
  • Analysis of the Errors in Armenian Speakers’ English Writings: The Role of the Negative L1 Transfer 
    Aleksanyan, Rima (2015-11-04)
    The purpose of this study was to investigate the most common grammatical errors in the writing performance of Armenian learners of English.Errors were studied in order toinvestigate the impact of the Armenian language on ...
  • The Effectiveness of Corrective Feedback in Language Learning 
    Varosyan, Narine (2015-11-04)
    One of the fundamental issues in EFL education concerns how a teacher can best respond to his/her students’ errors and the extent to which teacher’s feedback may promote students achievement. A significant issue in error ...
  • Developing 21st Century Skills through EFL 
    Movsisyan, Varduhi (2015-10-23)
    The requirements of a 21st century classroom greatly differ from those of the 20th century. The result of globalization and technological modernization is that the world has become “flatter”, which means that the “Three ...
  • English through Mass Media 
    Piloyan, Tamara (2015-10-23)
    The ‘English through Mass Media’ course is intended for adult EFL learners with intermediate level of proficiency. It is aimed at developing reading, listening, speaking, writing and presentation skills. Considering the ...
  • Teaching Speaking through Current Events 
    Bardakjian, Tamar (2015-10-23)
    This design project aims at enhancing students' speaking skills through motivating and engaging them with the help of discussions linked to current events. As current topics are related to learners' daily life, needs ...
  • Building a Global Citizenship Team through English 
    Keoshkerian, Shoghig (2015-10-23)
    The current paper presents an original Content Based EFL Course on the current global citizenship issues. It is aimed at raising students’ awareness about issues related to education, environment, and social issues to ...
  • Building English Language Community and Communication in WRCA 
    Sargsyan, Lusine (2015-10-23)
    The current course design project presents a community language-learning mоdel for women attending Women’s Resource Center Armenia (WRCA). The course is aimed at developing students’ four language skills, self-directed ...
  • Exploring Women’s Perspectives of the World through English 
    Gevorgyan, Rima (2015-10-22)
    The design project entitled “Exploring Women’s Perspectives of the World through English” is a ten week communicative course aimed at developing and enhancing speaking, listening and vocabulary skills to foster effective ...
  • Reflective Teaching in the Armenian EFL Context 
    Galoyan, Narine (2015-10-22)
    This study is a qualitative research which aims at finding out the extent to which most EFL teachers reflect on their teaching practice; particularly the aspects of their teaching practice that those teachers focus on while ...
  • An investigation of Digital Storytelling to Enhance 21st Century Skills 
    Abrahamyan, Marine (2015-10-22)
    Digital storytelling is becoming increasingly popular in education. It is also being successfully adapted in EFL/ESL classrooms to engage learners in meaningful language use. The current paper reports on a mixed-method ...
  • Developing English Language Skills through Current Health Topics 
    Vuchase, Laura (2015-10-22)
    Developing English Language Skills through Current Health Topics is a CBI course designed for EFL/ESL pre-intermediate teenage and adolescent learners. The paper aims at providing language and content to the young generation ...
  • Curriculum Design for the AUA Preschool English Program 
    Ghazaryan, Kristine (2015-10-22)
    The purpose of this project was to design a preschool curriculum for Sprout, a Preschool English program that belongs to the American University of Armenia. This course aimed to engage children in the use of basic English ...
  • English as a Foreign Language Teaching Methods in Primary Schools of Armenia 
    Kabakian, Klariss (2015-10-22)
    With the introduction of the communicative language teaching (CLT) approach in the field of language teaching, advocates of CLT approach emphasized the importance of enhancing the learners’ communicative competence in ...
  • Evaluation of a Blended Reading and Writing Course Delivered with CourseSites 
    Vrshikyan, Heghine (2015-10-22)
    Resent years, the implementation of the modern technologies, particularly Web based technologies became widespread and accessible for the majority of people independent of their age. This inspired more and more researchers ...
  • Impact of Digital Storytelling on Armenian Learners’ Speaking Skills 
    Harutyunyan, Hasmik (2015-10-22)
    The following research is a mixed-method study that aims at exploring the impact of digital storytelling on elementary level Armenian learners’ speaking skills, more particularly, on fluency, pronunciation, accuracy and ...
  • Self-assessment of Young Learners in the Experimental English Program in Armenia 
    Margaryan, Gayane (2015-10-22)
    The purpose of this quasi-experimental study is to examine the accuracy of young learner’s self-assessment grades, as well as to find whether self-assessment practice has an impact on learner’s achievement. The research ...
  • The Impact of Teacher-Student Interaction on Students’ Motivation 
    Geghamyan, Gayane (2015-10-22)
    The current paper is a mixed-method research study which aims at investigating teacher-student interaction and its’ impact on students’ motivation in EFL classrooms in Armenia. The purpose of the study was to identify ...
  • Error and Contrastive Analysis of L2 Academic Writing 
    Levonyan, Emma (2015-10-16)
    This paper is a quantitative study which aims at identifying the most common errors made by Armenian learners in English as a second language academic writing. The purpose of this study is to identify the grammatical and ...
  • English Private Tutoring among Armenian Secondary School Children 
    Hovhannisyan, Emilya (2015-10-16)
    Recent decades have brought a systematic trend of what has been called the shadow education system of supplementary private tutoring. All over the world pupils in regular public and private schools take supplementary paid ...

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