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Anna Stepanovna Borisova; Svetlana Alekseevna Moskvitcheva; Oksana Ivanovna Aleksandrova; Muhammad Arif Soomro – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
Foreign language anxiety (FLA), whose impact is often negative on learners' cognitive processing, happens when a learner pursues a foreign language as a non-native speaker. This study aimed to investigate anxiety in learning English as a foreign language and its influence on learners' cognitive processes. The sample comprised graduate and…
Descriptors: Likert Scales, Communication (Thought Transfer), Anxiety, Measures (Individuals)
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Jonathan Trace – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2023
The role of context in cloze tests has long been seen as both a benefit as well as a complication in their usefulness as a measure of second language comprehension (Brown, 2013). Passage cohesion, in particular, would seem to have a relevant and important effect on the degree to which cloze items function and the interpretability of performances…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Cloze Procedure, Connected Discourse, Test Items
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Samburskiy, Denis – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
The goal of this study is to examine differences in the interpretation of idioms by EFL learners in Russia and ESL learners living in the USA and analyze a facilitative effect of a dual-coding technique on interpretation of unfamiliar idioms. Firstly, the study investigates an impact that different levels of metaphorical competence may have on…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Vorozhbitova, Alexandra A.; Marchenko, Olga I.; Timofeyev, Alexander V.; Issina, Gaukhar I. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2018
The article substantiates the synergistic concept of complex linguistic and rhetorical (L&R) training necessary for the high-quality professional training of a future specialist of any direction and profile of higher school education; the specification is made on the example of a teacher of a foreign language (foreign languages). The…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Higher Education, Personality Traits, Second Language Learning
Kommers, Piet, Ed.; Issa, Tomayess, Ed.; Issa, Theodora, Ed.; McKay, Elspeth, Ed.; Isias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
These proceedings contain the papers and posters of the International Conferences on Internet Technologies & Society (ITS 2016), Educational Technologies (ICEduTech 2016) and Sustainability, Technology and Education (STE 2016), which have been organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Foreign Countries, Internet, Educational Technology