This study was carried out to investigate the relationship between foreign language listening anxiety and listening comprehension. The study employed correlational study design. Participants of the study were 40 grade 11 students who attended the listening class in 2015/2016. Foreign language listening anxiety questionnaire and listening comprehension tests were used as data gathering instrumen...

in teaching a foreign language (fl), some cultural specificities (defined under the rubric of ‘little-c culture’) may totally conflict with the cultural norms of the learners’ first language (l1). to prevent such imminent problems, this paper recommended that the fl syllabus be designed in a way so as to equip learners with an intimate knowledge of the target language culture, and that language...

In teaching a foreign language (FL), some cultural specificities (defined under the rubric of ‘little-c culture’) may totally conflict with the cultural norms of the learners’ first language (L1). To prevent such imminent problems, this paper recommended that the FL syllabus be designed in a way so as to equip learners with an intimate knowledge of the target language culture, and that la...

This paper presents a study of comprehension monitoring of Chinese lower intermediate EFL (English as a foreign language) learners in first language (L1) and foreign language (FL) reading. It investigates the outcome of comprehension monitoring in L1 and FL reading, as well as the separate contributions of L1 reading proficiency and FL comprehension monitoring to FL reading proficiency. 126 stu...

This study aimed to compare the underlying measures of male and female high- school students’ social capital in terms of regional variations and gender and investigate the relationship between those measures and the students' foreign language (FL) achievement. To this end, a number of 904 third-grader high school students (278 male and 626 female) from two educational district...

A foreign language (a language not spoken in one's community) is difficult to master completely. Early introduction of foreign-language (FL) education during childhood is becoming a standard in many countries. However, the neural process of child FL learning still remains largely unknown. We longitudinally followed 322 school-age children with diverse FL proficiency for three consecutive years,...

The general purpose was to make senior secondary school teachers of English as a foreign language and their students aware of the possibilities of some pedagogical applications of Information Technology in foreign language (FL) teaching. The specific purpose was to study how computer-mediated, foreign language referential communication, carried out via communications networks and electronic mai...