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González-Bueno, Manuela; Quintana-Lara, Marcela; Falah, Abdulrazzag M. – Applied Language Learning, 2018
Studies of the acquisition of the lenited allophones of Spanish voiced stops have traditionally focused on the production (Lord, 2010; Rogers & Alvord, 2014; Zampini, 1994), but not on the perception of these sounds. This pilot study examines relationships between (a) learner proficiency and perception of target sounds; (b) learner perception…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
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Baradaran, Abdollah – English Language Teaching, 2016
The current research aimed at inspecting the existence of a significant relationship between teachers' teaching styles and their Autonomy. For this reason, two questionnaires with regard to the main variables were given to 175 female English language teachers, teaching at advanced levels. Moreover, non-parametric Mann Whitney and Kruskal Wallis…
Descriptors: Correlation, Teaching Styles, Professional Autonomy, Statistical Analysis
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Yetis, Veda Aslim; Kurt, Çigdem – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
The aim of this study is to determine whether intercultural sensitivity levels vary among foreign language teacher candidates in terms of variables such as target language, year of study (grade), and gender in both intra and inters programs. Research sample consists of 1,049 Turkish freshmen, sophomore, junior, and senior foreign language teacher…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Foreign Countries, Universities
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Kusçu, Ertan – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2017
The purpose of this study is to determine the reasons of anxiety levels of high school students who learn French as a second foreign language. The sample of the study consisted of four hundred fifty-six students from two high schools in Denizli province in 2015-2016 academic year. In this study, the effects of variables such as learners' gender,…
Descriptors: French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Anxiety
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Asmali, Mehmet; Bilki, Ufuk; Duban, Carina Adriana – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2015
The present study attempts to offer a small-scale investigation of the willingness to communicate and its key antecedents, namely the self-perceived communication competence and the communication apprehension in Turkish and Romanian contexts. A total of 130 participants took part in this quantitative approach based study. The data suggested…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Anxiety
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Akay, Emel; Toraman, Çetin – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2015
Learning a language means not only studying four skills of proficiency, but also understanding the system of rules underlying. In this respect, learners' attitudes towards grammar are also of vital importance. The main objective of this descriptive study is to determine English language learners' attitudes towards grammar and to analyze these…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Grammar, Second Language Learning