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Writing skill is an important tool for academic success of any professional individual.  This paper aims to analyze the indispensability of having vocabulary knowledge which in turn helps foster ESL/EFL students’ writing performance for their academic success. To this end, the researcher has gathered the past research papers in order to collect the important details of the relationship between vocabulary and writing skills. Moreover, this paper presented theoretical perspectives of vocabulary and writing. In a similar vein, the researcher detailed the students’ and researchers’ perceptions on the role of vocabulary in fostering skills of the ESL /EFL students. It also mentioned the results of the past studies that show the clear correlation between vocabulary and writing and their contribution to development of writing skills with the required amount of evidence. The conclusion provides some important points for ESL practitioners and students with respect to developing vocabulary knowledge.

Technology is a part and parcel of this information age; no sphere of learning is untouched by it. The field of ELT/EFL/ESL is no exception. The current paper is an attempt to understand how the use of technology has been received in the field of English as a second language and gather perspectives from the learners of the English language about the effect of technology in their learning. The paper explores various modes of e-learning and how the tools aid traditional ways of teaching and learning English as a second language. An attempt has been made to trace new trends in learning with the ever-evolving technology in the 21st century. This paper has reviewed a few significant researches to give a perspective on the efficacy of modern technologies in learning English for ESL students.

In recent years, there has been an increasing focus on the role of the student in the learning process and boosting motivation for English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners. Motivation is widely considered to be a key aspect of being a successful learner. Moreover, there is a general consensus in the literature that motivation is one of the key learner characteristics. This present study aims to examine the impact of self-assessment as an alternative form of assessment on enhancing motivation and EFL learners' grammar achievements. To this end, the students in the experimental and control groups were all exposed to the same content and instructional method and had the same instructor. There was only one difference. The students in the experimental group self-assessed themselves, while the students in the control group were assessed by their instructor. The design of methodology is quasi-experimental design. The results revealed that self-assessment has a strong role in promoting the learners' motivation in EFL grammar achievements. The results have provided further evidence confirming that self-assessment as an alternative form of assessment is a useful for accounting for students' performance and learning. The present study has shed light on how self-assessment was found to affect learners' achievements and motivation in class. The issue of English grammar instruction in EFL classroom is intriguing and could have some recommendations for future research. As discussed in methodology, the method applied for control group was the conventional method, while a further study could present teaching grammar through other methods.