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THE EXPLORATION OF FACTORS TRIGGERING FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANXIETY: LEARNERS' VOICE

open access: yesTEFLIN Journal, 2008
This article presents the findings of a study looking at the factors which learners believe have contributed to their anxiety in their foreign language learning. A questionnaire with a three-point Likert scale was developed and used as the means for data
Andi Marwan
doaj   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Language classroom anxiety: a comparative study of ESL learners / Voviana Zulkifli [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Malaysia decided use English as the medium of instruction at university level beginning 2002 and much debate has surfaced since then. English has also increased in importance in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) since the nation joined the World ...
Zulkifli, Voviana
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Brokering Peace: Emerging Middle Powers, Agency and Mediation

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the role of mediation in emerging middle power conduct in an increasingly fragmented world. It asks why and how emerging middle powers seek mediator roles in international conflicts, focusing on Turkey and Indonesia's responses to the Russia–Ukraine war.
Buğra Süsler, Chris Alden
wiley   +1 more source

Interactions between age to start learning English, high school, and language proficiency on EFL graduate students' anxiety

open access: yesActa Psychologica
Foreign language anxiety (FLA) has been studied in relation to extra-lingual factors. However, little attention has been focused on some modulatory factors such as age to start learning a foreign language (ASLFL), high school (HS), and language ...
Mailing Tang, Hongli Zhou
doaj   +1 more source

When Is a Wrong Answer Right?: Mediating Indigenous Language Revitalization at Taiwan Indigenous Television

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article follows producers of Kai Language Heroes, the first Indigenous language game show in the world, as they adapted the genre for language revitalization. Kai Language Heroes is one of many original programs at Taiwan Indigenous Television (TITV), a public broadcaster that serves Taiwan's diverse Austronesian‐speaking peoples. I argue
Eliana Ritts
wiley   +1 more source

Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

Are CLIL students more motivated?: an analysis of affective factors and their relation to language attainment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper addresses the purported belief that Content and Language Integrat- ed Learning positively infuences students’ affective stance. It compares the motivation of CLIL and non-CLIL learners in seven state schools and one charter school in the ...
Navarro Pablo, Macarena
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Time Flies When You’re Focused and Having Fun! [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Comprend des références ...
Rueb, Avery
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The Covid‐19 Pandemic and Pre‐Existing Migration Infrastructures: Differentiated Impacts on Nepali Migrants in Japan

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic disproportionately affected international migrants worldwide. However, not all international migrants were uniformly impacted. While much of the literature has focused on the pandemic's effects on migrants relative to citizens, the impacts faced by different groups of migrants remain less understood.
Ramesh Sunam   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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