This study investigated whether Chinese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL learners hereafter) could use prosodic cues to resolve syntactically ambiguous sentences in English. 8 sentences with 3 types of syntactic ambiguity were adopted. They were far/near PP attachment, left/right word attachment and wide/narrow scope. In the production experiment, 15 Chinese college students who p...

This review aims at examining recent and relevant literature that investigates the correlations among learning style preferences, awareness of motivation, intelligence types, gender, Arabic Gulf region first-year college students’ EFL performance. A lot studies about influence learners’ their motivation types on ESL (English as a second language) performance have been conducted in English speak...

This study investigated the impact of transformative instructional approach in speaking on EFL learners' motivations to speak. To this end, a total 62 English as foreign language (EFL) male and female learner institute Iran participated study. The took over period two months classroom setting. Participants were exposed their motivation was investigate following relevant practices. adopted mixed...

Communicative language use largely entails regular patterns consisting of pre-constructed phrases or sequences. These sequences have been examined by many researchers to find the situation-based formulas which may help L2 learners follow a possibly more target-like speaking system. This study, therefore, explored two categories of formulaic expressions including speech formulas and situation-bo...

This study focused on Yemeni EFL learners of second-year level, Department English, College Education/Saber, Aden University. started to English in class seven at the age about 14, and this is a problem for learners. Besides, learners’ problems were inadequate syllabus inappropriate teaching materials English-speaking skills course. The researchers identified existing classroom. college faced d...

among topics in the field of pragmatics, some seem to be in a more rigorous need of investigation. pragmatic assessment and specifically the issue of pragmatic rating are among issues which deserve more thorough consideration. the purpose of this study was to examine rater criteria and its consistency and variability in the assessment of iranian efl learners’ production of compliments based on ...

This study investigated EFL teachers’ and students’ perspectives towards Audiotaped Oral Dialogue Journals (ATODJs), as a computer-mediated communication (CMC) and a Mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) task. The data came from 202 entries of ATODJs, gathered from15 female Iranian intermediate EFL learners. Teachers and students’ evaluations of the whole program comprised of the qualitative...