Empirical studies have shown that anxiety and negative emotion can hinder language acquisition. The present study implemented a writing instructional model so as to investigate its effects on the writing anxiety levels of English Foreign Language learners. The study was conducted with 177 participants, who were administered the Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (SLWAI; Cheng, 2004) that...

Listening comprehension plays a significant role in developing foreign language learning and it can be considered as a useful skill to gain sufficient comprehensible input. The current research sought to explore the effectiveness of using reactive/ performance versus intensive one on Iranian intermediate English learners’ listening comprehension ability. It was carried out at Kish English Langu...

the aim of this study is to investigate the role and structure of motivation in learning a foreign language in order to introduce the model ofinformation processing as a new approach and scale to evaluate themotivation of foreign languages.for this purpose,two hundred and fifty participant employees ofthe iranian oil terminals company enrolled in the english language training courses were selec...

This study sought to investigate the connection between foreign language anxiety andextroversion and introversion personality types. The way adult language learnersconceptualize their fear of negative evaluation as a component of foreign language anxietyconstruct was also investigated. To this end, 50 Iranian adult language learners were selectedas participants of the study and divided into two...

Title of Document: THE INFLUENCES OF APTITUDE, LEARNING CONTEXT, AND LANGUAGE DIFFICULTY CATEGORIZATION ON FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY. Thomas R. Wagener, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Directed By: Dr. Steven J. Ross, Second Language Acquisition This research investigates the ability of predictive measures to differentiate level of language proficiency among learners across languages, language ca...

While significant effort has been put into annotating linguistic resources for several languages, there are still many left that have only small amounts of such resources. This paper investigates a method of propagating information (specifically mention detection information) into such low resource languages from richer ones. Experiments run on three language pairs (Arabic-English, Chinese-Engl...