Understanding how second language proficiency and other key learner characteristics relate to learning anxiety subcomponents can help inform the type quantity of content instructors approach foreign (FL) students with when teaching English. This study seeks understand FL (i.e., TOEIC reading, listening, self-reported), experience, gender influence levels classroom writing anxiety. To accomplish...

Audio technology such as podcasting may be an efficient tool to improve oral proficiency by exposing learners to more authentic input (e.g., listening to podcasts) and by giving them opportunities to produce substantially more output (e.g., creating podcasts). Combined with self-evaluation activities, voice recording technology can also contribute to metacognitive awareness, i.e., “the ability ...

This research examines the relationship between language proficiency and thought processes in context of cognitive development. The aim this study is to understand how relates processes, particularly terms influence on quality effectiveness one's thinking. method employed descriptive qualitative analysis literature. results indicate a significant processes. Good proficiency, including strong un...

Introduction. As English is today's dominant language of science and technology (EST), students having passed general and EST courses need to interact primarily with the scientific community specially in their field of study for various purposes, including the use of educational films. This study specifically aims to evaluate the proficiency of Iranian students of dentistry in understanding edu...

The pivotal role of listening comprehension in second/foreign language learning requires that researchers conduct studies which investigate factors that affect test takers’ performances. The present study was set out to examine whether item modality (i.e., written vs. oral items) affects listening comprehension test performance. In addition, it investigated whether allowing test takers to take ...

Listening and reading play an essential role in students learning English as a foreign language. Recognizing freshmen students’ language proficiency through the University Test of Proficiency (UTEP) helps university to portray batch performance decide future policies teaching strategies for lesson. This is important EFL teachers developing that are suitable students. However, study describe cur...

The “Simple View of Reading” proposes that reading comprehension could be predicted by the product of decoding and linguistic comprehension. A somewhat modified version of this model suggests that the relationship between decoding and linguistic comprehension should be additive rather than multiplicative. This research is comprised of two studies. The first study compared the efficacy of the tw...

Captioning is widely used by second language learners as an assistive tool for listening. However, the use of captions often leads to word-by-word decoding and over-reliance on reading skill rather than improving listening skill. With the purpose of encouraging the learners to listen to the audio instead of merely reading the text, the study introduces a novel technique of captioning, partial a...

This study investigates whether or not effective learners used learning strategies differently from less effective learners in quantity as well as in quality. A total of 164 tertiary-level students learning English in Korea participated in the quantitative study, and eight students out of 164, four effective learners and four less effective earners, were chosen in the follow-up qualitative stud...