this study investigates the relationship between extraversion/introversion personality dimension and the use of strategic competence (sc) in oral referential communication by iranian efl learners. referential communication refers to a kind of guided communication in which the referents (or topics) are given to the speakers to convey their meanings to the listeners. 50 sophomore english students...

On-chip L2 cache architectures, well established in high-performance parallel computing systems, are now becoming a performance-critical component also for multi/many-core architectures targeted at lower-power, embedded applications. The very stringent requirements on power and cost of these systems result in one of the key challenges in many-core designs, mandating the deployment of highly eff...

The main purpose of the study reported in this paper was to examine the interrelationships between L2 risk-taking, English learning motivation, L2 speaking anxiety, linguistic confidence, and low-proficiency English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ speaking complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF). A secondary purpose was to test whether task repetition can influence the level of the mentio...

Collocation is an aspect of language generally considered arbitrary by nature and problematic to L2 learners who need collocational competence for effective communication. This study attempts, from the perspective of L2 learners, to have a deeper understanding of collocational use and some of the problems involved, by adopting a task based approach, using two highly comparable corpora based on ...

Communicating in a second language could be seen as a process requiring the deconstruction and reconstruction of cultural meanings. If this is the case, how do second language (L2) learners express cultural meanings of their first language (L1) expressions that do not have semantically equivalent L2 expressions? Twentynine Japanese students learning English as a second language in the US were a...

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between Iranian EFL Learners’ perfectionism and writing anxiety their performance in IELTS Writing Module. To this end, sixty-eight learners were selected via convenience sampling. Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale developed validated by Hewitt Flett (1991) Second Language Anxiety Inventory devised Cheng (2004) administered participants. The p...

Abstract Learners’ personality traits and self-assessment have an essential role in their academic achievement the well-being of society. Although L2 grit core (CSA) attracted considerable attention educational research, few studies focused on impact boosting CSA managing foreign language anxiety (FLA). Drawing upon this existing research gap, present study set forth to test a structural model ...

In face-to-face communication, eye gaze is known to play various roles such as managing the attention of interlocutors, expressing intimacy, exercising social control, highlighting particular speech content and coordinating floor apportionment. In second language (L2) communication, one’s perception of eye gaze is expected to have more importance than in native language (L1) because eye gaze ca...