Abstract This article reports on a two-step investigation of foreign language learning boredom amongst Chinese university non-English-major EFL students and English teachers. In Study 1, 22 11 teachers were interviewed 659 responded to an open questionnaire, recalling describing their experiences perceptions in English. The data allowed multidimensional conceptualization Foreign Language Learni...

Findings Verbal communication is based on speech activity, which can be developed and applied during foreign language learning. Learning foreign languages is also associated with acquiring the knowledge of other cultures, which is impossible without practical speech communication. Necessary properties of online applications, which provide language communication practice are the possibility of a...

the phenomenon of how tests influence teaching and learning is commonly described as “wash back”in language instruction. literature indicates that wash back effect is a complex concept that becomeseven more complicated under different interpretations of the wash back phenomenon in teaching andlearning. in the present study, some definitions of wash back and its two major types were introduced,a...

The use of linked data within languagelearning applications is an open research question. A research prototype is presented that applies linked-data principles to store linguistic annotation generated from language-learning content using a variety of NLP tools. The result is a database that links learning content, linguistic annotation and open-source resources, on top of which a diverse range ...

With the aim of storing learner corpora as well as information about the Basque language students who wrote the texts, two different but complementary databases were created: ERREUS and IRAKAZI. Linguistic and technical information (error description, error category, tools for detection/correction...) will be stored in ERREUS, while IRAKAZI will be filled in with psycholinguistic information (e...

This paper describes an extension made to a bilingual human-machine dialogue system, to allow the system to take initiatives in a languagelearning dialogue. When the user concedes the initiative to the system, the system generates a set of ‘possible initiatives’, and chooses the best of these based on a number of criteria. These criteria relate firstly to the formal goal of generating an initia...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigatethe effect gender differences on foreign languagelearning.Methodology: adopted a desktopmethodology. Desk research refers secondary dataor that which can be collected without fieldwork.Desk basically involved in collecting datafrom existing resources hence it often considered alow cost technique as compared field research, asthe main executive...

The COVID-19 pandemic has “thrusted bothteachers and learners” (p. 16) into a new languagelearning environment where the relentlessly progressingtechnology is exerting an increasingly indispensablerole, which stimulated reevaluation on relationshipbetween second language acquisition (SLA)and technology. Contributed by pool of expertise withfull scholarly apparatus, Routledge Handbook ofSecond L...

This paper describes how we tried to increase the user’s feeling of ‘psychological ownership’ during the LINKX project. In this participatory design project, a languagelearning toy was designed for children with autism. Participating ‘users’ were three boys with autism, their parents, and care professionals, such as teachers and a speech therapist. The children played with the prototype. Care p...

Language learning styles are among the main factors that help determine how –and how well–our students learn a second or foreign language. In the traditional classroom, the primarymode of interaction was face-to-face dialogue between the teacher and the student. This studypresents an analysis of the types of interaction in Jahad-e-Daneshgahi Institute, among 45EFL students in Miyaneh city, and ...