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Kassem, Mohamed Ali Mohamed – English Language Teaching, 2017
The present study aimed at investigating the effect of using wikis on developing business writing skills and reducing writing anxiety of Business Administration students at Prince Sattam bin Abdul Aziz University, KSA. Sixty students, who were randomly chosen and divided into two equivalent groups: control and experimental, participated in the…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Writing Skills, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Shamsudin, Mardziah; Othman, Moomala; Jahedi, Maryam; Aralas, Dalia – English Language Teaching, 2017
The present study investigated the impact of two instructional methods, Debate and Philosophy Inquiry (PI), in enhancing Willingness to Communicate (WTC) among two groups of English as a Second Language (ESL) learners who were randomly selected. In each group there were sixteen participants. The researchers used independent samples t-test and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Philosophy
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Rahimi, Mehrak; Soleymani, Elham – English Language Teaching, 2015
This study aimed at investigating the impact of mobile learning on EFL learners' listening anxiety and listening comprehension. Fifty students of two intermediate English courses were selected and sampled as the experimental (n = 25) and control (n = 25) groups. Students' entry level of listening anxiety was assessed by foreign language listening…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods
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Çapan, Seyit Ahmet; Pektas, Rumeysa – English Language Teaching, 2013
Anxiety is a psychological factor commonly associated with such feelings as fear, apprehension and uneasiness. It is an individual's affective reaction to a perceived or a real threat (MacIntyre, 1995). Foreign language reading anxiety (FLRA) refers to one's negative attitudes which may, to some extent, account for the inhibition that s/he suffers…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Second Language Learning, Correlation, Reading Achievement
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Khan, Zaved Ahmed; Zafar, Shahila – English Language Teaching, 2010
Language anxiety is a prevalent phenomenon in second language learning. This experiment examines the arousal of anxiety caused by the introduction of a video camera at various points in a vocabulary learning task. Two hundred sixteen students of 1st-year university English language course were randomly assigned to one of four groups: (a) one group…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction