Annotated Bibliography Essay

Annotated BiBliography

Alaraj, M. M. (2016). EFL acquisition external problems and difficulties: an investigative interview to examine Saudi students' thoughts and feelings. Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 7(3), 484. doi:10.17507/jltr.0703.07

The researcher at King Abdul University, use data from the students in King Abdulaziz University explore and discover of feeling and thought about English as a Foreign Language (EFL) problems and difficulties. This study objective of this research is to find out the most common external EFL problems and difficulties that make most of students in EFL study English Language unsuccessfully. The researcher tries to deeply go into the thought and heart of the student to explore the causes of this problem by interviewing to get possible answer. The author find his result of the EFL external problems and difficulties in four main groups: Insufficient exposure to and practice of language in real life situations, Teachers’ lack of seriousness and training, Lack of motivation and Inappropriate textbooks. This article is usefulness for my writing

The participants of this research is eight teacher from two university in southern Taiwan.Researchers use interviewing face-to-face with the interviewee to investigate by asking two open ended questions to them. The result reveals that there are a lot of factors that makes the students get a problem with English language that can relate to teacher factors, students factors and CLT factors. Also, this article provides practical recommendations for teacher and educator to improve teacher training, curriculum design and so on to success in implementing the CLT approach. Therefore, this article is suitable for my writing because this article has a lot of information which has a lot of problem of learning English and the recommendation to improve English language skills that it involved to my