In 2017, the Ministry of Education promulgated General High School English Curriculum Standards (2017 Edition), which stressed importance affective factors in learning. This study uses a combination qualitative and quantitative research methods such as student questionnaires interviews to explore motivational function its negative influence upon reading 80 students with low ability high school ...

Although L2 writing has attracted salient attention and monopolized many studies in EFL contexts, there is still no full image of its complicated nature.  Trying to play a supplementary role in achieving that image, this study aimed at finding whether Persian and English argumentative and descriptive academic writings were inter/intra-lingually associated and if genre played a role in p...

Driven by sparse investigations on cultural content in a textbook English as foreign language context, this study aims to analyze the information embedded an for senior high school students Indonesia. A critical analysis was employed entitled “Pathway SMA/MA Grade XI” compliance with cores from Adaskou et al. (1990). The findings showed that contains four main topics of infused 14 reading texts...

This study investigated the management importance and performance level of foodservice managers at senior centers. Using the survey, perceived importance and performance levels of seven foodservice management areas were evaluated and analyzed. Data showed the foodservice facilities were being managed by dietitians (61.6%) or non-dietitians (38.9%). The result indicated that overall importance l...

In adult second language (L2) acquisition, individual differences are considerably large even among people with similar experiences. The neural mechanisms underlying this variability would include structural plasticity of language-related pathways. To elucidate such neuroplasticity, we focused on the transitional period of adolescence, which is associated with certain plasticity toward maturati...