This paper considers the special challenges facing learners of English in developing country contexts, and asks why a few individuals succeed in achieving competence in English where the majority more understandably fail. While research theory has shed light on individual learner differences such as aptitude, motivation and learning strategies, there has been very little empirical investigation...

Science educators often characterize the degree to which tests measure different facets of college students' learning, such as knowing, applying, and problem solving. A casual survey of scholarship of teaching and learning research studies reveals that many educators also measure how students' attitudes influence their learning. Students' science attitudes refer to their positive or negative fe...

The Effect of Blended Method of Teaching on Outputs of Learning Quran among Honor High School Students E. FathiAazar, Ph.D. T. Haashemi, Ph.D. Y. Adib, Ph.D. Sh. Vaahedi, Ph.D. S.M. Tabaatabaa’ee To determine the effect of the blended method of teaching on the knowledge, skills, and attitudes learned in the high school Quran course, with the mediating effect of learnin...

the effect of motivational self-regulatory strategies on l2 learners’ achievement has scarcely been examined within the context of our country, iran. this study is concerned with examining the relationship between motivational self-regulatory strategies and their l2 reading and l2 writing achievement. it also explores the relationship of motivational self-regulatory strategies and use of langua...

task-based language teaching (tblt) has been considered as an effective language teaching methodology. however, its applicability for lower-proficiency learners in efl contexts has not been adequately justified. moreover, the possible mediating effect of the experiential learning styles on academic listening tblt has not been targeted in the literature, a gap that this study attempts to fill. t...

L2 learners’ multiple intelligences (MI) profile plays a central role in theirperformance on different aspects of language learning, one of which is the use oflanguage learning strategies (LLSs). Gaining insights into the relationship betweenMI and LLSs makes L2 teachers better understand their learners’ strengths andweaknesses in the use of such strategies and lets them guide the learners bett...

Advances in speech recognition (ASR) technology have resulted in computer applications that provide compelling forms of speaking practice to learners of a second language (L2). Evaluation of such applications typically does not include an analysis of how learners’ situated motivational states fluctuate during language practice. In connection with recent developments in L2 motivation theory, thi...