Understanding Second Language Anxiety: Feedback from ESL Learners in TVET

The altitude of test anxiety among second language learners

Taking a second-language test is a nervous affair; and in India, test anxiety has silently wreaked havoc on students’ psyche. Particularly for students who take public exams in Grades X and XII, anxiety is quite lurid. Given the influence of the obsolete and rigid nature of exams on students’ psyche, we believe that a study related to test anxiety will provide useful insights. This paper report...

Adaptive Feedback Message Generation for Second Language Learners of Arabic

This paper addresses issues related to generating feedback messages to errors related to Arabic verbs made by second language learners (SLLs). The proposed approach allows for individualization. When a SLL of Arabic writes a wrong verb, it performs analysis of the input and distinguishes between different lexical error types. The proposed system issues the intelligent feedback that conforms to ...

The Impact of Second Language Proficiency on Chinese ESL Learners’ English Word Recognition

This study investigated the impact of Chinese ESL learners’ second language (L2) proficiency on English word recognition in a lexical decision task. The study focused on the interaction among one between-participant variable (L2 proficiency) and three within-participant variables (orthographic neighborhood density, word frequency, and words/nonwords). ANOVA and two-tailed t-test indicated that:...

Negative Language Transfer Reflected in ESL Learners’ English Writing

Second Language Learning and Second Language Learners: Growth and Diversity

The field of second language acquisition (SLA) studies is characterized by two different traditions. One tradition is linguistic and focusses on the process by which learners build up their linguistic knowledge of the second language (L2). Here the focus is on learning. Human beings are credited with an innate capacity to learn language which explains why the process of learning manifests disti...