Reading, an important skill in any language, becomes more difficult in a foreign language. The investigation of expository text comprehension between language groups conducted in 1999 at Vytautas Magnus University and South Carolina University (Škudienė, 1999) showed that the students of both language groups (Lithuanian and English) performed better in literal comprehension tasks. On these grou...

In order to explore high school students’ English learning anxiety in Chinese EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classrooms, this study surveyed and analyzed 105 students from a high school in Dezhou City, Shandong Province, China. The results indicated that students indeed had comparatively high anxiety in English learning. Males have higher anxiety of English classes than females. And it was...

This study explores the effect of online annotations via Interactive White Boards (IWBs) on reading comprehension of Iranian EFL learners. To this aim, 60 students from a language institute were selected as homogeneous based on their performance on Oxford Placement Test (2014).Then, they were randomly assigned to 3 experimental groups of 20, and subsequently exposed to the research treatment af...

Background: Cooperative learning as an educational approach plays a crucial role in English as a second/foreign language education. The effective role of cooperative learning seems to be so dominant that it deserves further investigation. Objectives: This study aimed at investigating the impact of cooperative learning strategies on reading comprehension and vocabulary learning of nursing stude...

This note describes a tentative solution to the problem of mixed language texts in TTS applications. The multilanguage modular architecture of Loquendo TTS has been exploited to provide a range of user options, allowing to guess the language of paragraphs/phrase/words and to switch between voices in different languages, or between foreign accents of the same voice. This note focuses on a Phonem...

The aim of this research was to explore the effect flipped classroom on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ reading skill and anxiety. For purpose, sample 44 Iranian EFL learners recruited randomly assigned group (N =23) non-flipped =21). Using quasi-experimental design, researchers employed an experimental that received instruction control were instructed based regular method for per...