The study investigates Vietnamese non-English-majored freshmen's speaking anxiety. 297 freshmen enrolled at a public university in Vietnam answered the Questionnaire of Speaking Anxiety. results show that participants had moderate level English-speaking anxiety, with female students having higher anxiety than male students. To provide insights into sources anxiety-provoking situations and strat...

The present study concentrated on the relationship between self-concept and language learning strategies. Participants of the study were 157 students from one University in Shandong, China. Quantitative data was collected through two questionnaires. The first one was the revised Chinese version of self-concept scale modified by Pan (2003) from Marsh’s (1992) SQDII. Another inventory based on Ox...

Brazilian foreign policy paradigms and changes in the global scenario since the Cold War created conditions for stronger ties between Brazil and Portuguese-speaking African countries. Recently, Brazil took the lead in regional integration processes and in South-South cooperation initiatives. These strategies and Fiocruz's acknowledged technical expertise resulted in its direct involvement in Br...

speaking is one of the most important skills to be developed and enhanced as means of effective communication. speaking skill is regarded one of the most difficult aspects of language learning. many language learners find it difficult to express themselves in spoken language. they are generally facing problems to use the foreign language to express their thoughts effectively. they stop talking ...

background as a developing country, iran has not had a substantial share in global science production activities; however, this country has recently been the forth country in the world regarding research output publications, and biomedical research has played a crucial role in achieving this honorable position. objectives in this paper, we aimed to introduce the strategies employed at baqiyatal...

Referring to the success of MiawAug, many novice creators have created YouTube channels with same theme (video game reviews). One most important parts creating content about video reviews is way speaking strategies. With good techniques, communication style spoken by creator will be more focused and conceptualized. Therefore, this study aims describe speech form MiawAug as a Video Game Youtuber...

the present study was conducted to compare the effect of individual and group pre-task planning on efl learners’ accuracy and complexity in speaking. to fulfill the purpose of the study, 60 intermediate female learners at the first grade of high school were chosen by means of a sample preliminary english test (pet) and randomly divided into two experimental groups of 30 students; the individual...