Mispronunciation is still among the frailties of language learners the world over. The present study reports an all-out investigation into pronunciation training for the Persian-speaking EFL learners at the intermediate level of language proficiency. More specifically, the present study investigated (a) the underlying causes of mispronunciation at the level of segmental features, (b) the crucia...

Researchers have extensively compared different L2 learning contexts, such as EFL versus study-abroad, for their impacts on oral production; however, scant attention, if any, has been paid to comparing EFL settings in terms of input factors such as textbooks, amount of contacts in L2, and teachers. Accordingly, the effects of these factors on the oral production skills were investigated in this...

Task-based language Teaching (TBLT) has occupied the pertinent literature for some long years. However, the role of specific task type in developing specific skill type seems to be amongst the intact issues in the literature. To shed more light on this issue, the present study was conducted to compare the effect of jigsaw and decision-making tasks on improving listening and speaking abilities o...

Locke (1983), studying world languages, found that some have word-initial clusters, some word-final clusters, and others consonant clusters in both word-initial and wordfinal positions. Considering negative transfer, linguists would claim native speakers of tongues without consonant clusters can have difficulty in phonologically manipulating target items with consonant clusters. Chinese differs...

Mispronunciation is still among the frailties of language learners the world over. The present study reports an all-out investigation into pronunciation training for the Persian-speaking EFL learners at the intermediate level of language proficiency. More specifically, the present study investigated (a) the underlying causes of mispronunciation at the level of segmental features, (b) the crucia...

This study aimed to investigate the factors that influence effective speaking of English as a foreign language (EFL) in higher education. Data were collected through an open-ended, in-depth interview with seven interviewees and analyzed using thematic analysis (TA) technique. The results showed six significant themes related student speaking: aptitude, motivation, opportunity, learning media, s...

Speaking for Transactional Functions as a course in English foreign language learning curriculum is essentially needed. This class provides students beneficial activities the speaking skills development and give them lot of experiences process beyond classroom working through project. study aims at describing students’ on transactional projects. Since this research describes condition that exis...

This article describes the development of speaking fluency through authentic oral production in a six-week action research study public high school Guayaquil, Ecuador. The methodology included pre-test and post-test that measured quantitative aspects student’s spoken (speed, pauses, repetitions, corrections), survey with closed-ended questions collected learners’ perspectives towards their own ...