Of the four language skills, speaking is usually considered an indicator of proficiency in a language. As EFL student, one should master skill (Nazara, 2012). Unfortunately, most Afghan undergraduates are not as good at they other three English skills (reading, writing and listening). Most undergraduate learners reading writing, but part oral communication, accurate fluent (Zia Sulan, 2015). He...

A lot of EFL students feel unconfident in performing their English-speaking performance and do not have a decent engagement self-reflection speaking development. Self-assessment is one the assessment techniques that requires students’ participation its process. The study was conducted to explore whether implementation self-assessment results significant difference performance. researcher quanti...

Although studies on L2 learning strategies are a major strand of second-language research, recent research interest has focussed on language learners’ metacognitive knowledge or awareness of strategies. Previous research has shed important light on the amelioration in L2 educational practices,but little researchis focused on EFL learners in input-poor environments. This paper reports on a study...

Abstract At the peak of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, synchronous online learning replaced physical classes worldwide. However, sustaining quality education during this transition was a challenge. Specifically, teaching and four English skills (listening, speaking, reading writing) among English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners contexts such as Saudi Arabia required greater adjustments to meet...

this study focuses on the relationship between lower-intermediate level efl learners’ metacognitive awareness and accuracy in self-assessment of a speaking test. we tried to raise the learners’ metacognitive awareness through practice in goal-setting and planning. to do so, 103 lower-intermediate level students took a pretest of speaking, completed a metacognitive awareness questionnaire, and h...

this study aimed to identify the portions of teaching materials for english classes in iran’s high schools. the efficiency of these materials was evaluated by (a) eliciting the teachers’ perception of the materials to identify their distribution portions and (b) studying the teachers’ satisfaction to identify whether the materials were successful to develop the efl teachers’ knowledge and skill...

Elderly people commonly suffer from dyspnoea, which may stem from expiratory flow limitation (EFL). The relationship between EFL, as assessed by the negative expiratory pressure method and spirometric indices, was investigated in an elderly French population. Subjects, aged 66-88 yrs, filled in socio-demographic and standardised questionnaires, which dealt with: medical history, smoking status ...

With the acceleration of educational informatization, blended teaching mode has developed rapidly. In this context, grounded in Bandura's self-efficacy theory, study investigated relationship among students’ satisfaction with EFL class, speaking and achievement by means factor analysis, correlation analysis regression analysis. The results showed that, first there was a significant positive bet...

Although previous studies on teacher agency have examined its manifestations and significance from the socio-cultural perspective, university English as a foreign language (EFL)-speaking instructors’ professional has been underrepresented in Chinese context. Based narrative inquiry approach cross-case analysis, this qualitative multiple case study explores how four EFL-speaking instructors exer...