BACKGROUND Our aim was to examine the relationship between motor skill proficiency and perceptions of competence of children in their first year of school. We also explored gender-based differences. FINDINGS Participants were 260 kindergarten children (mean age = 5y 9 m; boys = 52%) from eight schools; representing 78% of eligible children in those schools. Motor skills were measured using th...

background: self-esteem is one of the basic needs for all individuals especially in adolescence. the aim of this study was to determine associations between adolescents’ self-esteem and perceived maternal parenting styles as well as its dimensions in terms of family type. methods: in this analytic cross-sectional study, 356 high school students (250 two-parent nuclear family and 106 single-pare...

alternative assessment approaches and, among them, self-assessment and peer-assessment are becoming increasingly important in educational contexts. designed to compare self-assessment, peer-assessment, and teacher-assessment, this study included 90 efl students from 3 intact classes divided into 3 groups: self-assessment, peer-assessment, and teacher-assessment. after taking the toefl proficien...

Abstract Recent research has confirmed the predictive effect of general foreign language (FL) achievement on Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE) and Classroom Anxiety (FLCA). However, few studies have examined domain-specific in shaping FL learning emotions. The present study thus aims to examine how FLE FLCA are linked overall self-perceived six different domains across listening, speaking, readi...

The perceived impression that a spoken utterance is not native is due to the culmination of a combination of segmental and suprasegmental phonological and phonetic characteristics entrenched in the speakers native language (L1) or it results from different types of interplay between those characteristics of the L1 and the second (or foreign) language (L2). The present paper reports findings of ...

Globalization provides international career opportunities and options, such as entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship education is currently promoted in both national European educational strategies. For university students, the viability of this option depends on their own motivations, perceived competencies, professional objectives. This study uses a structural equations model analyses factors th...

This study considered the effects of trait emotional intelligence (trait EI; Petrides & Mavroveli, 2007) and sociobiographical variables (age, gender, education level, number of languages known, age of onset of acquisition, context of acquisition, frequency of use, socialization, network of interlocutors, self-perceived proficiency) on communicative anxiety (CA) in the first language and on for...