The current mixed-method study investigated two groups of Korean-speaking short-term sojourners in Australia. One group (students) was composed learners enrolled English training programs, whereas the other (workers) workplace. We administered questionnaires and a semi-structured interview to examine their willingness communicate (WTC) as second language (L2) explored relationship between this ...

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...

Previous research has shown a range of benefits extensive reading for second or foreign language (L2) learning, as well learners’ positive attitudes towards reading. However, during emergency remote teaching around the globe consequence Covid-19 pandemic, where all L2 classes have been moved online, little investigated online perspectives on this activity. Therefore, present study was conducted...

Results of our research study conducted before Croatia joined the Erasmus program in 2010 suggested that experience internationalization might affect ESP students’ attitudes, learning priorities and motivation. To establish whether generations participated academic mobility programs differ from their pre-Erasmus peers, we repeated original 2009: Business economics attitudes to English, L2 motiv...

A chromophore in which zinc porphyrin donors are linked through their meso positions by ethynyl bridges to a bis(indolinylidenemethyl) squaraine core has been synthesized using Sonogashira coupling. The chromophore exhibits a two-photon absorption spectrum characterized by a peak cross section of 11,000 GM and, more unusually, also exhibits a large cross section of >780 GM over a photon-wavelen...

Some students in Indonesian Pesantren (Islamic Boarding School) reported negative attitudes toward English as lingua Franca due to their environmental background, socio-cultural awareness, and identities. However, there are limited studies conducted investigating religious beliefs the basis of pesantren students' learning English. Thus, this study aimed investigate based on practices. The surve...

In the literature of learner characteristics in applied linguistics, learning attitudes, strategies and motivation have received most attention. These learner individual difference variables have usually been seen as background learner variables that modify and personalize the overall trajectory of the language acquisition processes (Dörnyei, 2009). Embedded within a mainly psycholinguistic per...

Willingness to communicate in a second or foreign language (L2 WTC) is an important individual difference variable that influences the target learning process. To cultivate students’ communicative competence for sustainable development and help them become active citizens of global world, teachers educators need understand L2 WTC find ways promote it. The present study explores effects teaching...