The link between Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety, Second Language Tolerance of Ambiguity and Self-rated English proficiency among Chinese learners [PDF]
Previous research has suggested that high levels of Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety (FLCA) have a negative effect on foreign language learning (Horwitz, 2001; Lu & Liu, 2011) while moderate levels of Second Language Tolerance of Ambiguity (SLTA) are
Shan Ip, T. +4 more
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Foreign language learning in Second Life and the implications for resource provision in academic libraries [PDF]
This project focuses on foreign language learning in Second Life and the implications for resource provision in academic libraries. In this context Second Life does not refer to the later years in life but to an online virtual world frequented by ...
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Revisiting problems with foreign language aptitude. [PDF]
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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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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The Impact of Foreign Language Learning on Foreign Language Teaching [PDF]
Can learning a foreign language make you a better foreign language teacher? This practice-oriented paper discusses the advantages of EFL teachers learning beginner-level French as a foreign language (FFL) for teacher development. In this paper, the authors, the teacher, a student, and the administrator of the FFL class, summarize the implementation and
Claire Murray +2 more
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Learning Chinese as a foreign language: An introduction
Abstract In this introductory paper, we first present the background of the present special issue dedicated to Willis Edmondson. We first point out why Edmondson provided a ground‐breaking contribution to the field of applied linguistics and why it is particularly timely to edit a special issue centering on his framework.
House, Juliane, Kádár, Dániel Z.
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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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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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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, two of which affect the broad decision to learn, while two concern as well the choice of the particular language to learn.
Victor Ginsburgh +2 more
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An Experiment in Learning a Foreign Language [PDF]
(1910). An Experiment in Learning a Foreign Language. The Pedagogical Seminary: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 81-96.
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