Motivation has long been considered as a significant factor, remarkably contributing to the success of second language acquisition. The current study focuses on investigating socio-psychological orientations Vietnamese-speaking English learners. A survey was administered 74 non-English majoring undergraduates in four IELTS preparation courses at pre-intermediate and intermediate levels. questio...

the aim of this study was to investigate the role of linguistic and intelligence factors in the iranian ielts candidates’ speaking performance. linguistic factors include depth and breadth of vocabulary knowledge as well as grammar knowledge. narrative and verbal intelligences represent the non-linguistic factors. the participants included 329 learners who took 5 validated tests and also partic...

the purpose of this research was to analyze efl writing tasks in two of the most popular english for speakers of other languages (esol) exam preparation courses in iran, namely ielts and toefl. having collected the criteria of writing task appropriateness in light of the process-oriented approach to writing instruction, we asked 60 learner participants to rate efl writing tasks in 3 ielts and 3...

The Philippines is considered one of the largest English-speaking nations in world. In fact, English official languages Philippines. But throughout years, a gradual deterioration language proficiency can be observed among Filipinos based on EF Proficiency Index, Test for International Communication (TOEIC), and average score Filipino IELTS takers. This paper aims to discuss different factors be...

When English is regarded as the lingual franca in global world, learners’ communicative competence emphasized. In China, however, most of L2 willingness to communicate and relatively low. This article focus on how improve Chinese IELTS poor classroom. I mainly use guided strategic planning narrative tasks enhance fluency complexity.