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Fang Gao – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2024
To facilitate intercultural communicative competence, language learners are invited into the triadic capacity of Thirdness, where the social and critical interpretations of intercultural dialogue are explored. Little is known of the specific pedagogical stages to create such a terrain for the development of students' sustainable intercultural…
Descriptors: Humanism, Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Student Attitudes
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Russell, Victoria – Foreign Language Annals, 2020
Foreign language classroom anxiety is a construct that has been investigated since the 1980s, yet few studies have examined language anxiety in the context of the online learning environment. In this literature review, the following guiding questions were examined: (a) What is foreign language classroom anxiety? (b) What are the research findings…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Anxiety, Online Courses, Student Attitudes
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Oteir, Ibrahim Naser; Al-Otaibi, Abdullah Nijr – Arab World English Journal, 2019
Research in foreign language learning has notably revealed that foreign language anxiety has been a crucial area in applied linguistics. Therefore, this study tends to give a comprehensive review of literature on foreign language anxiety. This review also tries to add an additional explanation to the earlier studies of this issue. It clarifies the…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Applied Linguistics
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O'Dowd, Robert – Language Learning Journal, 2015
Telecollaboration, or "online intercultural exchange" (OIE), refers to the application of online communication tools to bring together classes of language learners in geographically distant locations with the aim to develop their foreign language skills and intercultural competence through collaborative tasks and project work. Many…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Learning, Language Skills, Intercultural Communication
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Liutkus, Darlene – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2012
A new paradigm in second language pedagogy has Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) playing a significant role. Much of the literature to-date claims that CALL can have a positive impact on students' second language acquisition (SLA). Mixed method of research produces data to investigate if CALL positively affects student language…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
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Dewaele, Jean-Marc – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2004
This paper investigates the perception of emotional force of swearwords and taboo words (S-T words) among 1039 multilinguals. It is based on data drawn from a large database collected through a web questionnaire on bilingualism and emotions. "t"-Tests revealed that the perceived emotional force of S-T words is highest in the L1 and gradually lower…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Multilingualism, Language Proficiency, Emotional Response