Promoting communicative interactions, while simultaneously drawing students’ attention to language form, is considered as a potentially significant area of research in second language acquisition. This study focuses on the effect of transcribing task, as an autonomous noticing activity, on intermediate and advanced EFL learners' grammatical accuracy. The study was conducted in two advanced and ...

SoHee Kim, Korea University Since online educational technology can support a ubiquitous language learning environment, there are many ways to develop English learners’ autonomy through selfaccess learning. This study investigates whether English as a second language (ESL) learners can improve their oral proficiency through independent study by using online self-study resources, online recordin...

The purpose of this article is to describe a language-learning environment for beginning Chinese learners in Australia in which technology plays a crucial role in the overall planning of the curriculum. In this curriculum priority had been given to listening and speaking skills rather than helping learners to learn through reading romanization of the Chinese language. The integration of compute...

Autonomous learning is a complex and multi-faceted construct. It can be defined as the learners’ capacity to self-direct their own learning, which means taking responsibility for the decisions concerning the different aspects of the learning process. In self-directed learning, learners’ choices remain mainly on the learning management level, i.e. behavioral level of learning, and it relates to ...

Learner autonomy has become the area of interest by many researchers of foreign language learning in the recent years. However, few studies have been done concerning the case of Kurdish learners` autonomy in learning languages. For this reason, the current study addresses this gap. It intends to investigate to what extent Kurdish learners are autonomous in learning English language. The study i...

The purpose of this paper is to report the development a web-based learning community system called 'the Robot Studio,' in which learners are helped to create autonomous robots. As an online robot contest is held in the Robot Studio, learners upload some still and moving graphics, as well as program files of their robots, and participate in a competition where they can interact and rate their w...

This article presents the attitude of ESP learners towards the role of Self-Access Language Learning Centres in improving their reading comprehension. It provides an evaluation of the success of these contents as well as an interpretation of students’ understanding of the related concepts. Finally it identifies factors that enhance or hinder the successful implementation of Self-Access Language...

The aim of this study is to examine the advantages of Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL), especially vocabulary learning of English as a foreign or second language (L2) in terms of the two strands: automatization and learner autonomy. Previous studies articulate that technology-enhanced L2 learning could bring about some positive effects. The use of technological functions in a mobile dev...

While listening plays an important role in the process of foreign/second language learning, different factors can affect this process. This study was designed to assess the relationship between listening anxiety and metacognitive strategy awareness with a special interest in the role of gender and proficiency level. In order to conduct this survey, two instruments including the Metacognitive Aw...