The ability of cognitive, affective, personality, and demographic variables to predict second-language acqui sition among college students was investigated. An all possible subsets regression analysis was used to compare the propor tion of variance in foreign-language achievement explained by each variable. The analysis revealed that variables from each of the 4 domains were important predictor...

listening skill and speaking skill, according language didactics, have close interaction in lingual communications. therefore, measuring listening comprehension without considering other language skills seems to be difficult. the present study is an effort to compare the effectiveness of oral and written multiple-choice listening tests for persian language learners. in fact, this study answers ...

Infants acquire language with remarkable speed, although little is known about the mechanisms that underlie the acquisition process. Studies of the phonetic units of language have shown that early in life, infants are capable of discerning differences among the phonetic units of all languages, including native- and foreign-language sounds. Between 6 and 12 mo of age, the ability to discriminate...

The present study was an attempt to determine a relationship between foreign language reading anxiety and reading strategy use among a group of EFL Iranian readers (no = 100) with low vs. high proficiency levels. To this end, FLRAS (Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale) developed by Saito, Horwitz, and Garza, (1999) was used in order to measure the participants’ level of anxiety in reading an...

Performing sudden and uncertain distance learning can be difficult complicated experiences for students as they may suffer from anxiety. The study of anxiety in Indonesia typically concentrated on the relation with speech production (Anandari, 2015), gender differences (Nurhaeni, 2019), four basic skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening) (Male, 2018) its impact language (Budiman, Ngadiso,...

Although the importance of listening metacognitive awareness in foreign language has been widely accepted, so far, there little research on its relationship with enjoyment (FLE) and performance. Since is an important input skill primary stage learning, this study examines relationships among awareness, FLE performance 331 Chinese senior high school students through Metacognitive Awareness Liste...