Abstract: Past research has suggested that the use of a foreign language worsen decision making because of the heavier cognitive load imposed by a foreign language than by a native language (Takano & Noda, 1993). We discovered, however, that the foreign language usage can be beneficial to decision making under information overload (when it is based upon a large amount of information). Seventy-e...

the aim of this study is to investigate the role and structure of motivation in learning a foreign language in order to introduce the model ofinformation processing as a new approach and scale to evaluate themotivation of foreign languages.for this purpose,two hundred and fifty participant employees ofthe iranian oil terminals company enrolled in the english language training courses were selec...

Previous research on the foreign language (FL) learner has yielded a rich body of knowledge personality, individual differences, and conceptions self as measure motivation. While these contributions have greatly enriched our understanding psychology, current paper proposes an analytical framing learning based relational theory, which positions human relationships with others main driver psyche ...

Previous studies report that grammatical gender causes difficulties for learners of second (L2) and foreign languages (FL), especially those students whose first language does not possess this characteristic. Although Spanish Russian share feature, has a more complex system which may be difficult to acquire Spanish-speaking students. Given it is clear what explicit instructions FL receive durin...

This study sought to investigate the connection between foreign language anxiety andextroversion and introversion personality types. The way adult language learnersconceptualize their fear of negative evaluation as a component of foreign language anxietyconstruct was also investigated. To this end, 50 Iranian adult language learners were selectedas participants of the study and divided into two...

A few studies suggest that gifted children with dyslexia have better literacy skills than averagely intelligent children with dyslexia. This finding aligns with the hypothesis that giftedness-related factors provide compensation for poor reading. The present study investigated whether, as in the native language (NL), the level of foreign language (FL) literacy of gifted students with dyslexia i...

The importance of using mother tongue and translation in foreign language classrooms cannot be ignored and translation can be utilized as a method in English Language Teaching courses. There exist researches advocating or objecting to the use of translation in foreign language learning but they all have a point in common: Translation should be used as an aid to teaching, not an end in itself. I...


 Oral corrective feedback (OCF) has been reported to be affected by several factors such as learners’ age, level of proficiency or the OCF types provided teacher. However, little research carried out on variable learning context, even though and uptake vary in rates second language (SL) foreign (FL) settings. Moreover, clearly under-researched classrooms that follow a content integrated (...