There has been a rise of interest in mindfulness and its effects on the educational context during last several decades. The research study aims to investigate training EFL students’ level speaking anxiety, willingness speak target language, their levels awareness. perceptions participants were also investigated this study. In total, 41 sophomore students who studying Aviation Management Depart...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study sought to reconcile two lines of research. Previous studies have identified a prevalent and causal role of negative imagery in social phobia and public speaking anxiety; others have demonstrated that lateral eye movements during visualisation of imagery reduce its vividness, most likely by loading the visuospatial sketchpad of working memory. It was hypothes...

Speaking anxiety is a form of foreign language which may reduce students’ willingness to communicate orally. Despite accent being one the most salient aspects speech, there has been little research date on relationship between non-native and speaking anxiety. The purpose this study therefore examine English learners’ perceptions beliefs about accent, also explore concept anxiety, that is, arisi...

BACKGROUND Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is one of the most prevalent anxiety disorders in Europe and comprises the fear of public speaking as its typical sub-type. Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is the intervention of choice for SAD, and it includes exposure to anxiety-provoking stimuli to induce systematic desensitization and reduce anxiety. Similarly, exposure therapy per se has been us...

The application of zone of proximal development (ZPD), as a major tenet of Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory (SCT, 1978), has recently been invited in the L2 learning/teaching profession. This study mainly examined whether Iranian EFL learners’ interactions in diverse ZPD-activated proximal contexts through the use of storytelling instruction could improve their oral (speaking) proficiency and at...