Foreign language enjoyment and speaking anxiety in the classroom are two potential emotion-inducing factors for foreign language learning. This sequential mixed methods study investigated whether and to what extent Iranian EFL students experienced foreign language enjoyment and public speaking anxiety in their English classrooms, and how they characterize the sources of the enjoyment and speaki...

teaching foreign languages has a long, extended history. ever since man needed to communicate with other nations, the teaching of a foreign language gained a marked significance. by the end of the 18th century, after the industrial revolution, learning a foreign language and therefore teaching it became even more important. as in teaching a language the main goal is to enable learners to read, ...

abstract the role of l1 in second/foreign language learning has been the subject of much debate and controversy. this article reports on a piece of research carried out in a junior high school in isfahan, iran. this study was conducted to examine the effect of using translation from l1 to l2 on the improvement of efl learners' language accuracy. to fulfill the purpose of the study, 62 stud...

This demonstration will illustrate an interactive immersive computer game, POMY, designed to help Korean speakers learn English. This system allows learners to exercise their visual and aural senses, receiving a full immersion experience to increase their memory and concentration abilities to a greatest extent. In POMY, learners can have free conversations with game characters and receive corre...

The effects of bilingual education on reading and math achievement were examined by comparing test scores across different elementary-school programs. Results revealed that bilingual Two-Way Immersion programs benefited both minority-language and majority-language students. Minority-language students in Two-Way Immersion outperformed their peers in Transitional Programs of Instruction, while ma...

a foreign language teaching method is supposed to take into account the real communicative needs of the foreign language learner. using literary texts is a suitable way not only to teach a foreign language but to consider particular facts that relate to human and cultural needs of learners. using the humanistic-oriented literary texts as an authentic document in the foreign language course allo...

Diffusion tensor imaging was used to compare white matter structure between American monolingual and Spanish-English bilingual adults living in the United States. In the bilingual group, relationships between white matter structure and naturalistic immersive experience in listening to and speaking English were additionally explored. White matter structural differences between groups were found ...

Abstract When the earliest Irish language immersion schools outside Irish-speaking (Gaeltacht) areas were established, students likely to come from relatively high socioeconomic backgrounds. While research has shown positive outcomes for these students, less is known about of education social disadvantage. Of 145 primary in Republic Ireland 2016, 13 (8%) served low status (SES) communities. The...

Many individuals will think that children are only able to learn how speak and listen when they can experience things themselves. However, is not the case, Infants hear begin understand languages starting from birth. Learning a language in advance provide advantages for child. They see watch different perspectives Children have critical period quickly develop particular so does learning foreign...