Because a significant proportion of real-life L2 communication is problematic, L2 learners might benefit from instruction on how to cope with performance problems. Such instruction could include the specific teaching of’ communication strategies, which involve various verbal and nonverbal means of dealing with difficulties and breakdowns that occur in everyday communication. Opinions on the tea...

Foreign language anxiety (FLA) plays an indispensable role in students’ second (L2) learning. This paper briefly reviewed the relevant research based on foreign classroom scale (FLCAS) terms of effects FLA L2 skill performance and debate The indicated that served as a confounding affective variable influencing achievement differently among individuals. Furthermore, from perspectives cognitive p...

The present study examines the coordination of lexical and paralinguistic F0 in second language (henceforth L2) production. We tested how L2 learners manage to handle F0 when F0 in their first language (henceforth L1) carries a paralinguistic function, but a lexical one in their L2 and vice versa. Participants (fifteen L1 Japanese speakers and fifteen L1 German speakers, proficient also in thei...

The online learning mode has dramatically altered the manner of way how communication is conducted in at higher education or schools for past two years. It led to a considerable change carried out, transferring it from an offline setting that permits long distance connection and communication. However, this effect on students’ engagement class as many them exhibit passive unresponsive behavior ...

The main purpose of this study is to examine the potential impact self-reported test anxiety on L2 academic achievement. sample consisted eighty-five students from ten different state secondary schools in. Majorca. Data were collected using Spanish version Cognitive Test Anxiety Scale (CTAS). results show that participants suffer moderate high levels, regardless actual English proficiency. find...

BACKGROUND No study has yet assessed the impact of physicians' skills acquisition after a communication skills training programme on the evolution of patients' anxiety following a medical consultation. This study aimed to compare the impact, on patients' anxiety, of a basic communication skills training programme (BT) and the same programme consolidated by consolidation workshops (CW), and to i...

Due to the participatory nature of Web 2.0, polite communication on social media and news sites can stand side by with uncivil comments. Research online incivility has been conducted users reading in their mother tongues (L1), while potential effects a second language (L2) have largely under-explored. This paper analyzes comments written an L2 attitudes around emerging technologies. Accordingly...