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...

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...

As a mixed-method study, this study investigated EFL test-takers’ perceptions of paired speaking tests and the role of interlocutor variables (i.e., peer interlocutor’s acquaintanceship, gender, and proficiency level) in pairing in a Cambridge English Language Assessment Open Center. The participants (N = 148), having experienced sitting either live paired speaking tests of Cambridge E...

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...