When COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, the education sector soon faced unprecedented challenge of moving courses online within no time. The rapid implementation emergency remote teaching (ERT) led to students and teachers alike being thrown into an emotional terra incognita. This paper sets out explore if foreign language (LX) grit, learners’ passion perseverance for LX learning, is predictor e...

This study aimed at exploring the possible underlying reasons for low speaking proficiency of EFL learners through adopting a qualitative methodology. To approach its goal, this used semi-structured interview to collect in-depth details from three and one university professor. The internal construction was associated with following four items; student, teacher, English materials or textbooks, a...

This research tends to ascertain several traditional and socio-cultural barriers to English language learning in Saudi Arabia and to explore more ways than before for making teaching and learning more effective. The findings of four quantitative and qualitative surveys conducted in this regard reveal a unique traditional and socio-cultural milieu, which turns the Saudi EFL learners lackadaisica...

Foreign language anxiety is a type of that specific to learning process. Anxiety can not only impact the students’ negatively but it also enforce them give up their studied (Horwitz, 2017; Malik et al., 2020; Milan, 2019). In Pakistan, there lack research in field and majority teachers students are fully cognizant its existence effects on (Samad, 2014). Most previous studies have investigated f...

as the main part of a large-scale project, the present study investigated the relationship among reflective thinking, listening anxiety, and listening comprehension of iranian efl learners with regard to their proficiency level. to this end, 223 (106 intermediate and 117 advanced) adult male and female iranian efl learners from a private language institute took part in the study by completing t...