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...

Motivating Japanese EFL (English as a foreign language) learners is essential in order for them to learn English conversation effectively. We developed an English conversation mobile learning system based on a heuristic model of variables influencing the concept of “willing to communicate” by MacIntyre et al. The system has three features: an application that learners can use anywhere and anyti...

The application of zone of proximal development (ZPD), as a major tenet of Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory (SCT, 1978), has recently been invited in the L2 learning/teaching profession. This study mainly examined whether Iranian EFL learners’ interactions in diverse ZPD-activated proximal contexts through the use of storytelling instruction could improve their oral (speaking) proficiency and at...

The aim of this study was to examine Iranian EFL university students’ level of anxiety and their perceptions towards in-class activities during speaking courses and possible causes of apprehension. Moreover, this study investigated whether or not EFL university students’ gender differences affect their perceptions of foreign language speaking anxiety. To this end, data were collecte...

This study focused on the effect of transcribing task, as a noticing activity, on EFL learners’ grammatical accuracy. For 20 sessions, oral discussion tasks were assigned to 2 intermediate adult EFL classrooms, with 1 class serving as the control group and the other as the experimental group. For this purpose, the learners were divided into groups of 3 or 4 in each class. Learners in both group...

The purpose of this study is to elicit problem causing word stress patterns for Turkish EFL (English as a foreign language) learners and investigate whether Internet-based pronunciation lesson is superior to traditional pronunciation lesson in terms of enhancing Turkish EFL learners’ accurate production of stressed syllables in English words. A pre-post test design with two groups of Turkish EF...