Speaking in English is an important skill to master gain upper hand a person’s academic and professional life. Different countries, where considered be foreign language, are emphasizing developing language learning teaching strategies the status of globalization. To achieve this goal, speaking skills play crucial role as it effective mode communication connect with world. This created immense n...

This research is a qualitative study which aims to explore the development of EFL learners' speaking proficiency as well critical thinking ability contribute their oral performance in IELTS Speaking Test training course (ISTT) under "Smart classroom" mode. In one participant was interviewed using semi-structured interview methodology with finding that mode, sufficient input and engagement, inte...

Among many factors affecting learning a language, motivation is the most well- documented in theory and less operationalized in practice entity and it calls for consideration when it comes to learn speaking skill in English as Foreign Language (EFL) education ecology. This study investigates the effect of storytelling through puppets on 60 Iranian pre -intermediate EFL learners' Motivation and ...

This study aims to investigate the correlations among reticence, personality types and speaking proficiency. For this purpose, Unwillingness-to-Communicate Scale (UCS) questionnaire IPIP Big-five were used. Moreover, proficiency test sample was employed find correlation students’ The result revealed reticence tend reflect attitudes toward communication, dominant type agreeableness, in moderate ...

Recent scholarship claims that bilingualism has a positive effect on the academic achievement of immigrant children. According to this perspective, growing up speaking two languages is beneficial because it stimulates cognitive development and allows immigrants a means of resisting unwanted assimilation. Immigrant children who are fluent bilinguals can use their native-language ability to maint...

speaking assessment is still construed as a complicated, under-researched process from the vantage point of tasks and rater characteristics. the present study aimed at investigating if and how english major and none english major teachers differ in their perception of the construct of oral proficiency while assessing learners’ l2 oral proficiency.  to this end, 38 male and female non-native efl...

We investigated the effects of age as well as the linked factors of education and bilingualism on confrontation naming in rural Kashmir by creating a culturally appropriate naming test with pictures of 60 objects. We recruited 48 cognitively normal participants whose ages ranged from 18 to 28 and from 60 to 85. Participants in our study were illiterate monolinguals (N = 18) and educated Kashmir...