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Gi-Zen Liu; Jalil Fathi; Masoud Rahimi – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
Intercultural communicative competence (ICC) has recently attracted the researchers' attention in the English as a foreign language (EFL) context; however, insufficient studies seem to have examined the role of online programmes in enhancing EFL learners' ICC. The current study, therefore, employed a mixed-methods approach to explore EFL learners'…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Tavakoli, Hossein; Lotfi, Ahmad Reza; Biria, Reza – Cogent Education, 2019
Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has been drawing researchers' and practitioners' interest since its early onset in the 1980s. In a task-based approach, students learn language by doing interesting, relevant, and hands-on pedagogic tasks that raise their interest and keep their involvement. The rich and still developing literature on TBLT is…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Reading Instruction
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Abdolrezapour, Parisa – ReCALL, 2017
Previous studies have shown that emotional intelligence (henceforth, EI) has a significant impact on important life outcomes (e.g., mental and physical health, academic achievement, work performance, and social relationships). This study aimed to see whether there is any relationship between EI and English as a foreign language (EFL) learners'…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Oral Language, Language Fluency, Correlation
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Sadaghian, Shirin; Marandi, S. Susan – Research-publishing.net, 2016
The concept of language learner autonomy has influenced Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) to the extent that Schwienhorst (2012) informs us of a paradigm change in CALL design in the light of learner autonomy. CALL is not considered a tool anymore, but a learner environment available to language learners anywhere in the world. Based on a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Online Courses, Web Based Instruction