This study aimed to explore the relationships between foreign language learners’ self-identity changes, motivation types, and Foreign Language proficiency associated with learning English in private language schools in Iranian context. Based on a stratified sampling, 204 English as a foreign language learners from three language schools in Tehran were selected to participate in the study. The i...

The current pretest-posttest quasi-experimental study attempts, firstly, to probe the effects of teaching formulaic sequences (FSs) on the second or foreign language (L2)  learners' oral proficiency improvement and secondly, to examine whether teaching FSs through different resources (i.e. animation vs. text-based readings) have any differentially influential effects in augmenting L2  l...

Foreign language learners without an immersion experience are advised to partake in activities that enhance their learning outside the classroom. The objectives of this study were explore which forms practice English as a Language (EFL) engage classroom and whether increases proficiency. results showed most frequent academic (e.g., reading textbooks) recreational watching movies). In study, EFL...

Language classrooms are occasionally anxiety-breeding situations. Foreign language classroom anxiety which negatively affects foreign language learning is typically associated with productive activities mainly speaking skill. To cope with the issue and overcome language learning difficulties, the present study was conducted to explore the impact of mobile-assisted language learning on enhancing...

Socio-cultural immersion is an integral part of every student's learning. Integration to unfamiliar community crucial particularly for students who choose study overseas. The researchers employed a qualitative research approach. Descriptive and phenomenological designs were used observe the behavior participants semi-structured interview narrate respondents’ lived-experiences. Findings revealed...

Most of the world's population has knowledge of at least two languages. Many of these bilinguals are also exposed to and identify with at least two cultures. Because language knowledge enables participation in cultural practices and expression of cultural beliefs, bilingual experience and cultural identity are interconnected. However, the specific links between bilingualism and cultural identit...

This qualitative study analyzes the reasons of college students for learning English as a foreign language (EFL) in Costa Rica and the reasons of high school students for learning German as a foreign language (GFL) in the US. It asks to what extent the learners’ reasons align with or deviate from neoliberal discourses that commodify foreign languages. The analysis of 27 interviews in a US high ...

First language acquisition requires relatively little effort compared to foreign language acquisition and happens more naturally through informal learning. Informal exposure can also benefit foreign language learning, although evidence for this has been limited to speech perception and production. An important question is whether informal exposure to spoken foreign language also leads to vocabu...

With the development of internationalization and globalization, Chinese-foreign cooperative universities are established to attract more international scholars students, provide chances for Chinese students experience English Medium Instruction (EMI) courses. From universities’ official website pages, propaganda immersion education. In that case, learning academic content knowledge requires stu...

The following study investigated a rare case of adult immersion in second language context without prior exposure to the language. It aimed investigate whether Length Residence (LoR) acts as strong index L2 speech performance when coupled with daily and interaction first speakers. Twenty-two females from Africa Asia who worked Foreign Domestic Helpers (FDH) Omani homes varying LoRs performed an...