This study attempted to examine the relationship between WTC and two types of speaking tasks:Dialogue and narrative/monologue. The significance of this study lies in its theoreticalcontributions to the WTC construct and the pedagogical implications in second languageteaching and learning. Sixty one intermediate female EFL learners were selected through anOxford Placement Test (OPT) from Tabares...

The research aims to study and experimentally verify the effectiveness of use Quizlet computer-based flashcard program for teaching future air traffic controllers (ATCs) profession-related vocabulary. In this research, we applied a mixed-method design. sample experiment participants was 57 first-year students majoring in “Aviation transport”. To evaluate efficiency incorporation into aviation E...

People are constrained by their culture and social life when telling stories. A second language learner then cannot be expected to tell stories in the target language without cross-cultural effects that influence the way of narration. The present study examined the role of the first language (L1) and second language (L2) in the organization of narratives by focusing on Persian speakers’ and EFL...

This study compared the effect of information gap and opinion gap tasks on introvert and extrovert EFL learners’ speaking. Accordingly, 138 learners out of 180 intermediate learners were chosen through their scores on a sample Preliminary English Test (PET). These learners further responded to the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) which categorized them into introverts and extroverts. Altoget...

How do people respond to voice user interfaces (VUIs) that use first-person pronouns as opposed to those that use thepassive voice? We addressed this question in the context of a phone-based auction via a 2 (first person vs. passive voice) X 2 (recorded vs. synthesized speech) between-participants experiment (N=48). There were significant cross-over interactions with respect to user relaxation,...

Building on previous research on the bei construction in Chinese and similar forms in other East Asian languages in Huang (1999) and other works, this paper offers a further comparative perspective on Chinese-type passives and their parametric variation with a consideration of passive structures in Vietnamese, an Austroasiatic language which has received much historical influence from Chinese. ...

This study was set out to shed light on the efficacy of pushed output directed by scaffolding on 41 (24 female and 17 male) upper-intermediate EFL learners’ speaking fluency and accuracy. A public version of IELTS speaking test was held to measure learners’ entrance behavior. Then, they were randomly assigned into symmetrical, asymmetrical, and control group. The experimental and control groups...

The study was conducted with the aim of examining the rate of foreign language anxiety in male and female language learners. FLCAS (Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale) was administered to two groups of male and female learners. The mean scores of FLCAS indicated a significant difference with females having considerably higher levels of anxiety than males. From 38 female learners,...