With the advent of digital literacy, fluency in reading from the screen has become a key category in shaping reading proficiency. Furthermore, research focusing on digital reading fluency, especially in the English as Foreign Language (EFL) context, is scarce. Therefore, this study first seeks to explore the differences in the participants’ reading fluency in paper and digital reading environme...

Driven by Positive Psychology, research on emotions in second language acquisition has moved from The Anxiety-Prevailing Phase to and Negative Emotions (Dewaele & Li, 2020). A growing number of scholars begin study learners’ a more holistic perspective. present investigated the levels sources foreign enjoyment (FLE) classroom anxiety (FLCA) 231 Chinese EFL undergraduates with intermediate l...

In this era of globalization, pragmatic competence plays a vital role in cross-cultural communication. The objective study is to investigate whether location key factor influencing Chinese EFL undergraduates’ English letter writing by comparing urban and suburban universities. This adopted descriptive research design. samples the were 450 college students, with 225 from university located an ci...

This paper reports on a 1-year longitudinal study that aimed at investigating the relationship between intermediate EFL learners’ development of reading and writing proficiency while delineating a range of linguistic features present in a set of 30 reading comprehension texts and 350 written essays. Data (reading comprehension exam scores and written essays) were collected from a junior high sc...

The purpose of this study was to compare the prevalence and implications of expiratory flow limitation (EFL) during exercise in boys and girls. Forty healthy, prepubescent boys (B; n=20) and girls (G; n=20) were tested. Subjects completed pulmonary function tests and an incremental cycle maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) test. EFL was recorded at the end of each exercise stage using the % tidal vo...

Production and Perception of EnglishTense/lax Vowel Contrastsby Korean EFL Learners

Abstract The current study aimed to compare the influence of explicit versus implicit instruction on EFL learners’ use interactional metadiscourse markers in their writing. also explore perceptions learners these writing classes. 120 female undergraduates who are Arab took part investigation. A mixed-methods research design was adopted with an group, group and a control group. experimental grou...

The present study examined the effects of using automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology on oral complexity in a flipped English as Foreign Language (EFL) course. A total 160 undergraduates were enrolled 14-week quasi-experiment. experimental group (EG) and control (CG) taught with approach, but EG students needed to undertake an additional pre-class task ASR technology. In each unit, all ...