This study investigates the relationship between depth of academic vocabulary knowledge and success among Saudi English-as-a-foreign-language university students. Fifty fourth-year students majoring in English completed a test, Word Associates Test (WAT), based on Academic List (AWL). Then, students’ grade point averages (GPAs) were obtained as measure success. Furthermore, learning strategy (V...

Various studies suggest that it is important to determine students' personality charecteristics and assertiveness and make them aware of these differences in order to improve learning process and outcomes. This study aimed to find out how much of the variance in postgraduate students’ assertiveness is explained by five personality characteristics (i.e., Openness, Neuroticism, Extroversion, Agre...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the rela- tionship among self-efficacy, self-esteem, test anxiety and efl learners’ final achievement scores. a number of 72 students majoring in english literature at shiraz university participated in this study. three ques- tionnaires, general perceived self-efficacy (gpse) scale, rosenberg self-esteem scale (rses), and test anxiety questionnaire (...

L2 research has shown that instruction in L2 pragmatics is necessary. The current study evaluated the impact of explicit instruction on EFL learner's awareness and production of three speech acts of request, apology, and complaint. It also probed whether learners’ language proficiency plays any role in incorporating pragmatic instruction into the L2 classroom. Iranian undergraduate students maj...

This paper explores how WhatsApp as social media is embedded into the educational practices of university students. The draws on an analysis 79 questionnaires and 10 online interviews. questionnaire survey was administered collected from students majoring in English Education at Universitas Sintuwu Maroso, Poso, Sulawesi Tengah. followed up by interviews, which were meant to provide deeper unde...

Students' attitude towards language has an impact on their learning of English as a foreigner (EFL). The significance this cannot be overstated and may serve decisive factor in achieving success, alongside the motivation. One's is influenced by range factors, such educational social learner personality characteristics, among others. objective investigation to examine perspectives EFL pre-servic...

For purposes of the present study, it was hypothesized that field (in)dependence would introduce systematic variance into Iranian EFL learners’ overall and task-specific performance on task-based reading comprehension tests. 1743 freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior students all majoring in English at different Iranian universities and colleges took the Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT). Th...