Social media is now widely used, particularly for Thai students and it could be a useful tool learning English language. The purpose of this research was to: 1) examine how effective, to use Facebook-based livestream presentation (FB-LP) as platform assessing an online language task in enhancing listening comprehension. 2) evaluate the factors that effect influence distance through presentation...

In today's global economy, most people all over the world need to speak a second language (L2) for study, work, or social purposes. Assessment of speaking, either in classroom as an external exam, is therefore important task. However, because its fleeting nature, assessment speaking proficiency difficult. For valid assessment, test must measure without construct-irrelevant variance, instance, d...

It is widely believed that adults cannot learn a foreign language in the same way that children learn a first language. However, recent evidence suggests that adult learners of a foreign language can come to rely on native-like language brain mechanisms. Here, we show that the type of language training crucially impacts this outcome. We used an artificial language paradigm to examine longitudin...

this study aims to examine how iranian efl learners perceive and apply mitigation devices in request speech act in 4 asymmetrical situations. role-play interactions and questionnaires were used to elicit the required data from iranian informants (male vs. female). the results obtained from the analysis of data revealed that in identical situations, male requestors were comparably more certain t...

Research on spoken language bilinguals has shown that there is a significant relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and literacy outcomes. The mechanism of SES as a predictor of literacy success has two competing explanations. One assumes a direct impact of SES on literacy through expanded opportunities to read and better maternal mediation of literacy activities; the other assumes an ...