Learning a foreign language in classroom setting can be veritably miserable experience. Nowhere is this better described than Buddenbrooks, where Thomas Mann dissects his young protagonist’s feeling of negative anticipation before class, with its attendant physical and behavioural symptomatology. Skipping forward eight decades, essay gives brief overview how applied linguists started using the ...

Although university EFL students represent a wide array of social and cultural identities, their multiple and diverse identities are not usually considered in foreign language classrooms. This qualitative case study attempted to examine identity conflicts experienced by Iranian EFL learners at the university context. To this end, two Shiraz University students' identities were investigated. Sem...

This study intended to examine the effects of game-based learning on Iranian EFL learners’ language anxiety and motivation. In order perform study, quantitative research method was applied. this 58 intermediate participants were selected divided into two groups: control experimental. Then, questionnaires Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) Motivation Test Battery (AMTB) administere...

in spite of the significant role of teachers in the efficacy of classroom management particularly in teaching english as a foreign language, the issue has not been addressed sufficiently especially in relation with other individual variables. hence, this study made an attempt to investigate the association between iranian efl teachers’ classroom management, reflective thinking and transformatio...

It is generally acknowledged that emotions play important roles in second/foreign language learning. Nevertheless, though interpreting highly stressful, not much research on has been conducted this area. Hence, investigated foreign anxiety and enjoyment class self-efficacy learning among Chinese university majors of interpreting. Analyses 67 mixed-form questionnaires revealed the following majo...

teachers can influence the complex process of learning in education, in general, and in second/foreign language (l2) learning in particular. in this light, understanding the factors influencing teachers’ pedagogical success can help l2 teachers achieve more effective teaching. this study then investigated the role of spiritual intelligence (si) in l2 teachers’ pedagogical success. in so doing, ...

Gallery Run (GR) is a classroom-based dynamic learning technique that promotes higher-order thinking and co-operative learning. This research study examined the influence of GR strategy on Saudi upper-intermediate English as foreign language(EFL) learners’ oral skills. First off, 62 EFL learners from language school in Riyadh were opted randomly sectioned into an experimental group control grou...

In spite of the significant role of teachers in the efficacy of classroom management particularly in teaching English as a Foreign Language, the issue has not been addressed sufficiently especially in relation with other individual variables. Hence, this study made an attempt to investigate the association between Iranian EFL teachers’ classroom management, reflective thinking and transformatio...

Foreign language anxiety (FLA) plays an indispensable role in students’ second (L2) learning. This paper briefly reviewed the relevant research based on foreign classroom scale (FLCAS) terms of effects FLA L2 skill performance and debate The indicated that served as a confounding affective variable influencing achievement differently among individuals. Furthermore, from perspectives cognitive p...