Psychological applications of human language technology combined with multidisciplinary approaches to similarity calculations and data visualization offer avenues to broaden the use of students’ own words in program assessment. We compared multiple analysis approaches on both simple token counts (word roots and character trigrams) and top-down language indicators from 85 student essays about se...

The present study was conducted to investigate how EFL learners with distinct levels of emotional intelligence might benefit from Critical Thinking-based instruction and use different language learning strategies. A further concern of this study was to investigate the relationship among critical thinking, language learning strategy, and emotional intelligence of EFL learners. To this end, 88 EF...

the purpose of this study was twofold. firstly, it attempted to investigate whether language learning strategies (llss) can predict foreign language (fl) proficiency. secondly, it examined what kind of llss iranian learners of english use more frequently in fl institutes. to do so, 112 intermediate iranian efl learners participated in the study. oxford’s strategy inventory for language learning...

Attitude to language is a construct that explains linguistic behaviour in particular. It may be positive or negative as well as instrumental or integrative. It varies from favourably to unfavourably or vice-versa in language learning and acquisition, choice and use of language in different domains and hence, it is important in the question of survival and development of a particular language an...