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Revisiting students’ foreign language learning demotivation: From concepts to themes [PDF]
Demotivation is a common psychological phenomenon in foreign language learning. Having a good understanding of learners’ foreign language learning demotivation is conducive to enriching the fruits of psychological research on foreign language learning ...
Lixiang Gao, Honggang Liu
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A Passage into Ayn al-Quzat Hamdani's Translations in Tamhidat [PDF]
In recent years, by the efforts of scholars such as Maria Tymoczko, translation studies have started reacting to Euro-centrism and exclusiveness. The movement stresses the necessity for the internationalization of translation theory and the importance of
Azizollah Dabaghi Varnosfadrani +1 more
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Analyzing EFL learners’ demotivating factors in blended learning context
In second language and foreign language learning, demotivation in learning is a common occurrence. Almost all previous studies on learners’ demotivation focused on traditional classroom learning environment rather than blended learning setting.
Wenjing Zhou +3 more
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Gamification into the design of the e-3D online course
Research in the fields of Education and Applied Linguistics points to the growth of studies on digital games and gamification in Brazil. On the other hand, studies that discuss digital teaching material do not provide guidelines on how to implement ...
Susana Cristina dos Reis +3 more
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Creative thinking as methodical category of foreign language learning [PDF]
This article is devoted to the development and improvement of the creative thinking approach of foreign language learning, namely speaking process. In that sense, the authors of the given article consider creative thinking as method and technique of ...
Litvinov Aleksandr Victorovich +1 more
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Attentional Competition and Semantic Integration in Low- and High-Span Readers
The goal of the current study is to investigate the effects of the distractive textual information on the activation of predictive inference online, and how the readers with high or low working memory capacity (WMC) differ in their online activation and ...
Connie Qun Guan +7 more
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Gratitude in Foreign Language Learning
Studies on positive emotions in language learning have increased over the years. However, gratitude, a moral virtue, which may have a novel effect in learning a foreign language, remains underexplored in applied linguistics. This paper aims to know the antecedents of gratitude and its constructs in English as a foreign language context.
Arab World English Journal +1 more
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Preservice EFL teachers’ online learning anxiety
With a prompt rise in the development of technology and with the advent of the internet in the 1990s, walls of classrooms have been demolished by the innovations of the current century.
Rabia İrem Durmuş, Nalan Kızıltan
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Foreign Language Learning: An Econometric Analysis [PDF]
The paper is devoted to an econometric analysis of learning foreign languages in all parts of the world. Our sample covers 193 countries and 13 important languages. Four factors significantly explain learning. All four affect the broad decision to learn but the last two also point to the choice of the particular language to learn.
Victor Ginsburgh +2 more
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MOBILE LEARNING IN THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM – CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES [PDF]
The article focuses on how foreign language teachers could use mobile learning in formal and informal learning environments. One of the key aims of the article is the focus on defining the pedagogy of mobile learning in the context of foreign language ...
Diana COJOCNEAN
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