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Revisiting problems with foreign language aptitude. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This study investigated three of the issues recently raised in connection with the traditional concept of foreign language aptitude: the relationship between foreign language aptitude and working memory and phonological short-term memory capacity, the ...
Sáfár, Anna, Kormos, Judit
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INCORPORATING CULTURAL FACTORS IN EFL CONTEXT

open access: yesEnglish Review: Journal of English Education, 2019
This study highlighted the issue of the incorporation of English cultures, cultural preference and diversity in relation to the students’ English program. The need to analyze the students’ perception is imperative since the students are considered as one
Aam Alamsyah   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Foreign language learning boredom: Conceptualization and measurement

open access: yesApplied Linguistics Review, 2021
This article reports on a two-step investigation of foreign language learning boredom amongst Chinese university non-English-major EFL students and English teachers.
Cheng-Chen Li   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Current Review of Foot Disorder and Plantar Pressure Alternation in the Elderly

open access: yesPhysical Activity and Health, 2020
Fall is a very common injury, especially in older adults with foot deformities and other foot disorders. Even a small fall may cause fatal damage to this cohort. The purpose of this study was to conduct a review elucidating plantar pressure pattern under
Bo Zhang, Qianyu Lu
doaj   +1 more source

Improving the fairness of ECL listening tests by detecting gender-biased items

open access: yesStrani Jezici, 2021
The first main objective of this study is to examine whether ECL listening tests in German at CEFR level B2 are equally fair to both male and female test takers. The second aim is to explore distinctive patterns that can be associated with gender-related
Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Revisiting Research on Positive Psychology in Second and Foreign Language Education: Trends and Directions

open access: yesLanguage Related Research, 2022
With the rise of positive psychology (PP) and its emphasis on the affordances of positive emotions to second/foreign language teaching and learning, numerous studies have been conducted on different PP constructs all over the world.
Ali Derakhshan
semanticscholar   +1 more source

How teacher behaviour shapes foreign language learners’ enjoyment, anxiety and attitudes/motivation: A mixed modelling longitudinal investigation

open access: yesLanguage Teaching Research, 2022
The current study investigates how foreign language enjoyment (FLE), foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) and attitude/motivation (AM) of 360 learners of English, German, French and Spanish in a Kuwaiti university was shaped over the course of one ...
Jean-Marc Dewaele   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Multilingual Instructional Strategies for Energy Education: A Study on Code-Switching and Code-Mixing [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences
This study investigates the role of code-switching and code-mixing as creative instructional strategies in teaching environmental and energy-related content within the Applied Foreign Language program at Universitas Diponegoro. Addressing the pedagogical
Rosyidha Alfin   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Phonetic Analysis of Z Rime Alternation Phenomena in Changyuan Dialect of Henan Province [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2023
By analyzing the Z rime alternation phenomena in Changyuan Dialect of Henan Province, the present study argues that the phenomenon of one word having two different kinds of Z rime alternation forms in this dialect is due to it that the basic rime of the ...
Wei Mengyang, Wu Mengjiao
doaj   +1 more source

To what extent are foreign language anxiety and foreign language enjoyment related to L2 fluency? An investigation of task-specific emotions and breakdown and speed fluency in an oral task

open access: yesLanguage Teaching Research, 2022
The relationship between foreign language anxiety (FLA) and foreign language enjoyment (FLE) experienced during a creative collaborative oral English-as-a-foreign-language task, and the relationships between FLE/FLA and task speech fluency were ...
Jakub Bielak
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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