As a result of the development humanistic psychology in 1960s, there has been growing recognition that affective factors can significantly impact outcomes education (Lu, 2001). Affective language learning, particularly second acquisition, have reckoned as non-cognitive and along with cognitive factors, sparked substantial attention among academics. variables may influence foreign acquisition in...

This paper presents a study on learners' level of anxiety when a podcast was used in developing their public speaking skills. This study employs a quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest nonequivalent control group design where the control group was taught using the traditional method whilst a podcast was used as a teaching aid on the treatment group. The podcast makes it possible for the learners...

Students’ low motivation and anxiety are common problem faced by the English teachers in teaching as foreignlanguage, therefore, think pair share one of cooperative learning approach can be applied solving those problem. The objective study was to find out difference students’ speaking skill who were taught using Think Pair Share not. method that used this quasi experimental design. populat...

This study investigated the impact of code-switching on speaking ability of Iranian low proficiency EFL learners. Moreover, it was an attempt to show what functions existed behind code-switching strategies used by the EFL learners. To this end, 60 male and female Iranian EFL learners age-ranged between 20 and 30 participated in the study. Data collection instruments which were used were the Int...