{"title":"“I Wanna Sound Like You so Why Don’t I?” Expectations Versus Reality for Egyptian Learners of English","authors":"A. N. Hamad","doi":"10.22158/eltls.v5n1p96","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We all come with our preconceived notions. The expectations of 180 Egyptian learners of EFL at a private institution in Egypt revealed that the majority of learners expect to sound like native speakers by the end of the 3-month course and teachers to do all the work and provide them with a textbook. This could be attributed to the learners’ previous experience with language learning. Still, teachers need to be able to anticipate and fulfill their needs.","PeriodicalId":129739,"journal":{"name":"English Language Teaching and Linguistics Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"English Language Teaching and Linguistics Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.22158/eltls.v5n1p96","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We all come with our preconceived notions. The expectations of 180 Egyptian learners of EFL at a private institution in Egypt revealed that the majority of learners expect to sound like native speakers by the end of the 3-month course and teachers to do all the work and provide them with a textbook. This could be attributed to the learners’ previous experience with language learning. Still, teachers need to be able to anticipate and fulfill their needs.