Category: Psychology of the learner
Future Engineers’ Anxiety: A Comparison Between English as a Foreign Language and Mathematics
This paper examines the anxiety levels among first-year future engineering students at ESPRIT School of Engineering, specifically focusing on the …
Developing Listening Comprehension in English Language Teaching: Insights From a Needs Analysis Study
Listening proficiency, though inherently challenging to teach due to its complexity and implicit nature, holds paramount importance in linguistic competence …
A Preliminary Framework for Teaching Strategies to Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) Students for Character Learning
Learning to read and write Chinese is seen as one of the most challenging aspects for Chinese as a foreign …
Letter Transposition Effects in Arabic English Bilinguals
Transposed Letter (TL) effects refer to the well-established finding in Indo-European languages that a transposed-letter non-word (e.g., JUGDE) facilitates the …
A Metacognitive Process of Collaborative Engagement With Peers in Project-Based Language Learning
In an English as a foreign language (EFL) environment, many students only get to learn or use English in the …
Students’ and Teachers’ Perceptions on ESP Teaching and Students’ Willingness to Communicate in English
This study investigated how English language instruction in Vocational and Technical High Schools affected English use in practice, students’ willingness …
Videos in the Language Classroom As Learning Mediators
The inclusion of videos in teaching has become widespread in the last decades. The paper faces the question of whether …
Exploring the Use of Oral Communication Strategies by Speakers of French as a Foreign Language
The study investigates the use of communication strategies (CSs) as a factor mediating foreign language speaking proficiency. Ten learners of …
Observing Learning Through the Hands: A Longitudinal Study of the Gestures of an English Language Learner
Hand gestures are an additional window into the mind of language learners allowing a glimpse of how learners might be …
Motivation in Learning English as a Second Language Among the Grade 10 Students at Imus National High School
Learning a language is most likely to occur when second language students “want to learn.” Gardner and Lambert (1959) proposed …
A Comparative Study of Motivations in the Learning of East Asian Languages
Understanding learner motivations for studying a foreign language has long been recognized as an important factor in providing effective language …
An Exploration of English Language Learners’ Emotions and Beliefs: Insights From Self-reported Experiences and Observed Classroom Practices
Due to the ‘emotional turn’ (Pavlenko, 2013) in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) – and particularly thanks to …
Success in an English Language Learning Class: Students’ Beliefs, Emotions and Experiences in a Communicative Language Teaching Context
The aim of this paper is to analyse the beliefs, emotions and experiences of English language learners in order to …
British Students’ Identity Transition in Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language
Chinese has become an increasingly significant language in the global language market over the last 20 years. China’s increasing power …
Introducing Gamification to Increase Student Motivation and Engagement
Gamification is a term that has been used in education recently. According to Kapp (2014), gamification is the application of …
The Factors of Compassion Fatigue among Guidance Counselors
The research was about the compassion fatigue and its contributing factors among ninety-two (92) guidance counselors. This study aimed to …
Foreign Language Anxiety in e-Tandem Learners: Is it Predictable?
Learning a foreign language (FL) is a challenging path, and speaking interaction with native speakers of the target language (TL) …
Understanding and Characterising a Context-based EFL Learner Autonomy in Algerian Higher Education
The study explores beliefs and practices that Algerian EFL students attribute to autonomous learning. Moreover, it attempts to identify then …
Investigating Teachers Beliefs in Developing Learners’ Autonomy in an EFL Classroom
The concept of learner autonomy and the focus on learner reflection and taking responsibility of their own learning process has …
An Investigation of Possible Relationships Between Parent and Child Motivation Towards Foreign Language Learning in UK Secondary Schools
The decline in foreign language learning in UK secondary schools is well-researched, particularly from the point of view of language …
How to Apply Learner Autonomy and Self-Assessment Method to Promote Test Takers’ Learning: A Case Study of SAT Test Preparation
In the fields of pedagogy and language assessment, self-assessment has been regarded as an effective teaching and learning method. This …
Understanding Demotivation Factors and Their Countermeasures in Japanese Student Learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL)
Motivation is one of the keys to successful language learning (Nakata and Okumura, 1999). Accordingly, English as a Foreign Language …