One of the most important skills to acquire in learning a foreign language is speaking. It however, viewed as one difficult. This study involved observation non-English major students department Nanjing Tech University. Its aim was assess critically factors that affect speaking performances Chinese EFL Learners, find out their motivational levels and explore ways improve proficiency. Two survey...

The existence of Covid-19 has forced the migration teaching and learning paradigm from face to interaction online combination both known as blended learning. Blended is believed provide opportunity for students interact with each other anxiety put at lowest. This research was aimed know 1) what extent EFL Learners’ influenced by approach in this covid-19 pandemic?; 2) What factors contribute st...

This study intended to inspect the possible effects of teaching English lexical clusters on speaking accuracy of Iranian EFL intermediate learners. Also it examined the influence of gender on the effect of teaching English lexical clusters on speaking accuracy of the same learners. 41 male and female EFL intermediate learners, studying  English at intermediate level at Zabankade Institute in Te...

The study examined language learning anxiety factors, hindering EFL learners’ process of learning, particularly in speaking settings and recommended useful approaches to cope with it. Using the quantitative approach as well as a qualitative semi-structured interview and focus-group discussion method, this study tried to examine the factors behind language anxiety among Iranian language learners...

the study was conducted with the aim of examining the rate of foreign language anxiety in male and female language learners. flcas (foreign language classroom anxiety scale) was administered to two groups of male and female learners. the mean scores of flcas indicated a significant difference with females having considerably higher levels of anxiety than males. from 38 female learners, 22 were ...

a growing body of research has indicated that students of esl/efl are reticent and unwilling to be engaged in oral activities in english lessons. communicative language ability includes speaking ability, so vocabulary knowledge plays an integral role in speaking a language. however, there have been few studies examining the degree to which vocabulary knowledge affects speaking ability. the pres...

The purpose of this study was to find out how much language anxiety EFL university students have, what causes it, and they deal with it. This aims fill a gap in the literature regarding anxiety, causes, people cope as most researchers have not yet combined those three factors into single study. current used mixed method,a questionnaire semi-structured interview were used. FLCAS collect quantita...

This study sought to promote EFL learners' speaking ability drawing on Bakhtin’s notion of dialogic discourse pattern (DDP) and to explore their perceptions towards implementing dialogic teaching (DT) in a speaking classroom. To this end, from the population of students in different language institutes, 47 students were selected based on a purposive sampling method. The data were collected at t...

The study examined language learning anxiety factors, hindering EFL learners’ process of learning, particularly in speaking settings and recommended useful approaches to cope with it. Using the quantitative approach as well as a qualitative semi-structured interview and focus-group discussion method, this study tried to examine the factors behind language anxiety among Iranian language learners...