Aytaged Zeleke

Delaware Technical and Community College · Language and culture

Abstract This article narrates the approach I used in addressing an issue that I noticed at the beginning of an ESL reading course in a college. While having the first day of introductory conversations with my students, I figured that there was a gap in using a cognitive strategy focused on pre, while and post reading phases. After identifying sele...

In this article, I just want to share a lesson plan that worked for my college level English for Academic Purpose course. I hope to get feedback from my readers so that I can improve it. Headings are used to organize my lesson plan and then my reflection about it is also forwarded.

Feedback is one of the most important activities in any English as a Second Language (ESL) writing class, and many teachers and students believe that it is key for writing development. The aim of this paper is to analyze research and come to an understanding of the effectiveness of corrective feedback in enhancing the quality of ESL students' writi...

Abstract: This article argues for the need to consider servant leadership style in Ethiopian higher education institutions. In comparative perspectives, it describes how the current higher education leadership style differs from the servant leadership style as the best leadership style for Ethiopian higher education institutions. In the description...

The motivation to this article came from a recollection of the observation I had with the leadership practices of my former bosses which made me explore the common characteristics of effective leaders. Even though many scholars in the field have pointed out numerous characteristics effective leaders exhibit, I found Drucker ‘s (2004) article titled...

This paper aims to explore the practice of continuous assessment at Unity University College and Addis Ababa University. It has also investigated constraints instructors say they have been facing in implementing continuous assessment. Students’ attitudes about the practice of this assessment mode towards their course achievements were explored. Cou...

Abstract An experiment was conducted to explore the effect of viewing test items at different times in a listening comprehension test. In this experiment three groups viewed listening comprehension test items at three different times. The first group viewed these items before listening to the text for two times ("before reading group") while the se...

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This paper is aimed at describing and exploring staff development issues in Ethiopian higher education. The principal research question of the study reads as how do the academic staff, view the need of short term continuous professional development trainings and how they prefer such trainings to be organized in Ethiopian higher education? To respon...

This article is aimed at identifying the push and the pull factors that influence the decision of Ethiopian higher education faculty members who have studied in Norway not to go back to Ethiopia. To collect data on these issues in depth interviews were conducted. It was found out that the major push factor is economy followed by politics, human rig...

The paper describes and suggests how instructors' teaching support center in Ethiopian higher education institution should be established. In doing that , it draws lesson from universities in Asia and other African countries and discuses how international experience can inform the establishment of such a center in an alarmingly expanded higher educ...

An Impromptu speech was used as a component of an English for Academic Purpose (EAP) test for first year university students. The article retrospectively reflects the rationale behind using an impromptu speech, and it describes the evaluation processes and practices. Then it evaluated the reliability, validity, and washback validity of impromptu sp...

An action research was carried out to ameliorate the quality of peer micro teaching practice undertaken in an English as a Foreign Language teachers’ training program. A model teaching on effective and less effective teaching methods of teaching in each language skill was presented by the trainer and commented by both the trainer and the trainees ....