<p>This paper reinforces the importance of third language acquisition research in a multilingual context focusing on experience, vocabulary learning strategies, emotional self-regulation and anxiety. This study explored three languages: Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, to know if there are significant relationships between above variables acquisition. Three specific sets survey questionnaires...

this study aimed at examining the major mobile wireless technologies, that is,mobile phones and the possibilities associated with them, currently in use in theeducational domains, with an emphasis on language teaching and learning practices.accordingly, some of the most typical studies using different functions of mobilephones such as e-mail, multimedia capabilities, wireless application protoc...

Increasing numbers of university students live with psychiatric or mental disabilities. Two of the most common categories of mental disorder are anxiety and depression. It is commonly assumed that the support for these students is provided by mental health practitioners such as counselors. However these disorders have an impact on the students’ learning and there is a role for those engaged in ...

this study is aimed at investigating the general foreign language classroom anxiety levels of iranian university students through administering horwitz scale (flcas) in addition to examining their reading anxiety through replicating saito’s reading comprehension anxiety scale (flras). the researchers further checked the former by developing and performing a new five–point likert type questionna...

Learning a second language has become necessity for human beings, because in daily life they face globalization, which requires knowing or mastering other languages apart from the native one. This challenge inhabitants of country nation, generating them an anxious feeling that prevents learning easily. Linguistic anxiety is apprehension experienced front situation use foreign with individual do...

This study aimed to investigate the efficacy of metacognitive strategy instruction intervention on reducing language listening anxiety of Iranian EFL learners in the light of 2 listening metacognitive strategy instruction models of Integrated Experiential Learning Task (IELT) (Goh, 2010) and Metacognitive pedagogical Sequence (MPS) (Vandergrift, 2004). Participants were 63 B1 level learners who...

While listening plays an important role in the process of foreign/second language learning, different factors can affect this process. This study was designed to assess the relationship between listening anxiety and metacognitive strategy awareness with a special interest in the role of gender and proficiency level. In order to conduct this survey, two instruments including the Metacognitive Aw...