Extensive reading (ER) is an instructional option steadily gaining support and recognition in second language (L2) reading pedagogy. Even though many attempts have been made to unravel the impact of ER on L2 development, there is a paucity of investigation into the affective domains of reading. The current study helps fill this gap by examining the effect of ER on L2 reading attitude. Participa...

We describe the Indiana University system for SemEval Task 5, the L2 writing assistant task, as well as some extensions to the system that were completed after the main evaluation. Our team submitted translations for all four language pairs in the evaluation, yielding the top scores for English-German. The system is based on combining several information sources to arrive at a final L2 translat...

The present study focuses on individual differences in levels of communicative anxiety (CA) and foreign language anxiety (FLA) in the first (L1), second (L2), third (L3) and fourth (L4) language of 106 adult language learners. Data were collected about CA / FLA levels when speaking with friends, with strangers, and speaking in public. The analyses revealed that multilinguals do experience more ...

The objectives of this study were (a) to examine the writing performance of L2 learners on the level-specific tasks based on Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) and (b) to study the likely difference between students' self-assessed level of writing and those reported by raters. The study was conducted with 138 Iranian students at BA and MA levels in Alborz Institute of Higher Educatio...

We describe our systems for the SemEval 2014 Task 5: L2 writing assistant where a system has to find appropriate translations of L1 segments in a given L2 context. We participated in three out of four possible language pairs (English-Spanish, FrenchEnglish and Dutch-English) and achieved the best performance for all our submitted systems according to word-based accuracy. Our models are based on...

The objectives of this study were to find out: (1) the dominant aspect in writing anxiety, (2) correlation between students’ anxiety and their performance, (3) differences male female students twelfth grade Pangkalpinang, Bangka Belitung. sample was 80 instruments used questionnaire a test. results showed that, cognitive most aspect. There fair significant performance. T-score -0,430 T-table 0,...