This study aimed to investigate the impact of pre-speaking activities on Iranian intermediate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ oral performance. The study followed a quasi-experimental design in which subjects of the study were non-randomly selected. Oxford Placement Test (OPT) was used to select 100 intermediate EFL learners as the main sample. Then they were divided randomly into...

One of the most prevailing difficulties I have faced as an English instructor is students’ dependence on teachers even though many language classes have been shifting from teachercentered to student-centered influenced by the communicative language teaching (CLT) approach. Class evaluations and needs analyses often reveal that many students expect every single one of their errors to be correcte...

In order to explore high school students’ English learning anxiety in Chinese EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classrooms, this study surveyed and analyzed 105 students from a high school in Dezhou City, Shandong Province, China. The results indicated that students indeed had comparatively high anxiety in English learning. Males have higher anxiety of English classes than females. And it was...

Gallery Run (GR) is a classroom-based dynamic learning technique that promotes higher-order thinking and co-operative learning. This research study examined the influence of GR strategy on Saudi upper-intermediate English as foreign language(EFL) learners’ oral skills. First off, 62 EFL learners from language school in Riyadh were opted randomly sectioned into an experimental group control grou...

This study designed learning activities supported by a mobile learning system for students to develop listening and speaking skills in English as a foreign language (EFL). How students perceive learning activities and a mobile learning system were examined in this study. Additionally, how different practices relate to students’ language proficiency was also explored. It was found that students ...

This study investigated the relationship between EFL learners‟ Foreign Language Reading Anxiety levels and their use of Reading Strategies. 196 senior university EFL learners majoring in either English translation or English literature participated in the first phase of the study. They were all asked to answer the Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale (FLRAS). Subsequently 46 participants were...

Understanding how second language proficiency and other key learner characteristics relate to learning anxiety subcomponents can help inform the type quantity of content instructors approach foreign (FL) students with when teaching English. This study seeks understand FL (i.e., TOEIC reading, listening, self-reported), experience, gender influence levels classroom writing anxiety. To accomplish...