Computer technology has influenced the realm of language teaching and testing so drastically that no language teaching program could be imagined nowadays without the use digitized software and mul- timedia. This study aims at investigating Iranian EFL learners' performance on paper-based test com- pared with their performance on computer-based test while considering their attitudes towards the ...

Abstract The present article examines the importance of language attitudes and ideologies for studying motivation to learn minority languages by adults. In contemporary globalised world, proficiency not only in English, but also other languages, is necessary order communicate internationally find employment. These may be ‘major’ state such as French or Spanish. However, many linguistically dive...

Attitudes or social affects are strongly implied in interaction processing, and specifically to socio-cultural aspects of language. This paper presents the modeling of attitude to apply in expressive speech synthesis in Vietnamese, an under-resourced tonal language. A prosodic model for Vietnamese attitude is proposed based on the concept of “rendez-vous” between linguistic levels and prosodic ...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the language attitudes of Japanese university students toward Japanese English in comparison to their attitudes toward Chinese English and American English. Voiced Guise Technique and questionnaires were used as methodology, having 80 students as participants. The study found that their evaluation of Japanese English was intermediate in terms of solid...

Abstract The role of EFL lecturers’ first language (L1) in the EFL courses has been an ongoing debate. A monolingual approach to EFL suggests that the use of the target language solely in foreign language (FL) classroom improves learning of the target language. Accordingly, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the attitude of Iranian lecturers and EFL learners towards using L1 as...

Abstract British Sign Language (BSL) has been shown to have a high degree of regional variation especially at the lexical level. This study explores awareness and attitudes deaf community towards this variation. We studied interview data from BSL Corpus ( http://bslcorpusproject.org/data ) 121 deaf, signers six regions across UK including Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, London Manchester...

This study embarks upon uncovering the probable relationships between Iranian parents’ attitudes, motivations, and home literacy practices (HLP) towards bilingualism, Persian and English. To undertake the study, sixty-eight parents of young language learners (YLLs) were asked to fill up a survey questionnaire. The questionnaire aimed to uncover parental attitudes, motivation, and the types of H...

Global changes in eating attitudes were examined prospectively across pregnancy and 4 months postpartum in a sample of 90 women. In addition, specific changes in dieting behavior and weight/shape satisfaction were assessed at 4 months postpartum for concurrent and retrospective time points. Measures included the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT) and weight/shape satisfaction in pregnancy and at 4 mon...