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Download full textGhafor, Omar Fouad; Ahmad, Hedayat Muhammad; Mustafa, Goran Omar – Arab World English Journal, 2022
This paper is an attempt to deal with language learners' beliefs. Researchers used Elaine Kolker Horwitz's model (1988), Beliefs about Language Learning Inventory, and they applied it to explore the views of Kurdish EFL university students concerning language learning. The study aims to investigate and expose their opinions regarding language…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), College Students, Student Attitudes
Direct linkLee, Sunjung – SAGE Open, 2020
This study examined the simultaneous effects of L2 individual difference (ID) variables (aptitude, motivation, strategy use, language processing experience, and gender) on English as a foreign language (EFL) breadth and depth of L2 vocabulary knowledge of 492 Korean university-level learners. Independent variable measures included the: (1) Korean…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Structural Equation Models
Véliz-Campos, Mauricio – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2018
The study aimed to establish whether there is a relationship between L2 aptitude, pronunciation learning strategies (PLSs), and pronunciation performance in pre-service English language teachers in Chile. In so doing, the study also uncovers PLS use by the participants. Through a correlational and statistically descriptive methodology, all…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pronunciation, Learning Strategies, Preservice Teachers
Zarei, Abbas Ali; Rahmani, Hanieh – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2015
The present study investigated the relationship between Iranian EFL learners' beliefs about language learning and language learning strategy use. A sample of 104 B.A and M.A Iranian EFL learners majoring in English participated in this study. Three instruments, the Michigan Test of English Language Proficiency (MTELP), Beliefs about Language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Attitudes
Reiterer, Susanne M., Ed. – English Language Education, 2018
This book presents original, empirical data from quantitative and qualitative research studies in the field of language learning aptitude, ability, and individual differences. It does so from the perspectives of Second Language Acquisition, psychology, neuroscience and sociolinguistics. All studies included in the book use a similar and uniform…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Multilingualism, Memory, Personality Traits
Mohebi, Sanaz Ghobadi; Khodadady, Ebrahim – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2011
The aim of the study is to investigate beliefs students usually held about language learning, based on the Beliefs About Language Learning Inventory (BALLI) questionnaire (Horwitz, 1988). For this purpose, 423 University learners of English in Iran were selected. Running descriptive statistics and the scree plot test, five factors were extracted:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Student Attitudes
Peer reviewedKasanga, Luanga A. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1996
Reports on empirical research on second-language (L2) Zairean multilingual students of English as a Second Language. Findings confirm the hypothesis of the differential effect of task type and the level of target language attainment on the amount of interaction; suggest a significant effect on L2 learning of oral peer interaction; and show a…
Descriptors: Class Activities, College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Wangsotorn, Achara; And Others – 1986
A study of the relationship of learner characteristics to success in beginning English examined the language aptitude, learning motivation and attitudes, spatial relations, study habits, and years of English instruction of 97 seventh-grade students in a Thai government school. The analysis focused on these variables as they related to the…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research, English (Second Language)
Thornton, Julie, Ed. – 1994
The Language Aptitude Symposium papers include: "Prognostication and Language Aptitude Testing, 1925-62" (Bernard Spolsky); "You, the Government, and Language Aptitude" (Government Roundtable; abstract only); "Styles of Thinking and Learning" (Robert Sternberg); "Current Research in Measuring Listening"…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Affective Objectives, Age Differences, Attitude Change
