as the main part of a large-scale project, the present study investigated the relationship among reflective thinking, listening anxiety, and listening comprehension of iranian efl learners with regard to their proficiency level. to this end, 223 (106 intermediate and 117 advanced) adult male and female iranian efl learners from a private language institute took part in the study by completing t...

Speaking is the act of conveying information or expressing ideas and feelings in spoken English. Anxiety becomes a barrier to language mastery. This study analyse students' speaking anxiety research used quantitative methods. Researchers selected class B third semester consisting 40 English Language Education students taken with purpossive sampling. Research instrument are obtain data from ques...

Anxiety is a phenomenon encountered by human beings within their daily experience. It is a psychological discomfort resulted from potential threatening situation. The ubiquitous nature of anxiety creates different subtypes such as trait anxiety, social anxiety, situational and test anxieties. Apprehension has been found to interfere with many types of learning but when it is associated with lea...

Reading development and instruction is a pedagogical priority at all academic levels. Historically, in the educational field, numerous efforts have been made to facilitate the complex process of foreign language reading comprehension. More recently, increasing attention has been paid to the use of computers for developing reading comprehension skills and various efforts have been made in this r...

Different types of reading strategies pose challenges to instructors and learners in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context. This study aimed at identifying and comparing reading strategies used by instructors and students in dealing with literal comprehension, reorganization, and inferential comprehension questions. The participants werefive EFL instructors and 27 students from the En...

Aim. The paper presents partial results of research aimed at the development foreign language reading comprehension using specially developed intervention programme. Concept. English Reading Comprehension Intervention Program has been within project Support for literacy in mother tongue and language. It consists 10 units is based on identified predictors, conscious which contributes to students...