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...

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...

Abstract Self-regulated learning has been recognized as helpful in language learning. This study showed how self-regulated contributes to stimulating students’ speaking skills. In an English a Foreign Language (EFL) setting, is generally perceived challenging task requiring actions, skills, or strategies achieve successful communication. As the feature learners' planning class, digital portfoli...

A significant number of studies are devoted to the psychological and social adaptation students educational process at university. This research contributes solution problem first-year students’ academic performance in framework studying a foreign language by working with monologue speaking tasks. The study offers an analysis improvement this particular type activity. took place Peter Great Sai...

Speaking as an initial goal in language teaching and learning has relationships with many variables including listening, reading, writing, knowledge of vocabulary as well as grammar. The present study mainly aims at examining the relationship between translations and speaking fluency. For this purpose and following an experimental design, three groups of Iranian advanced EFL learners were...

This study explores the construct validity of speaking tasks included in the TOEFL iBT (e.g., integrated and independent speaking tasks). Specifically, advanced natural language processing (NLP) tools, MANOVA difference statistics, and discriminant function analyses (DFA) are used to assess the degree to which and in what ways responses to these tasks differ with regard to linguistic characteri...

Affective factors, such as anxiety, are located among the obstacles that hinder language learning and can result in learners who resistant to input, especially foreign contexts. Thus, current research effort aimed at examining level of speaking anxiety (English Arabic) Birzeit University (BZU). It also investigating effectiveness using online tasks on lowering students whose attitudes were surv...