Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching  

 

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Miroslaw Pawlak

The first 2013 issue of Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching brings together six contributions from scholars from different parts the world, five of which constitute reports of original research studies. As many as four of the papers are devot... see more

Annie Morris,Marc Lafontaine,François Pichette,Linda de Serres

This study investigated the relationships between various affective variables and two measures of competence in English, for 190 South Korean high school students. A 55-item questionnaire was used to measure attitudes (Attitudes toward English Speakers an... see more

Jean-Marc Dewaele,Tsui Shan Ip

Previous research has suggested that high levels of Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety (FLCA) have a negative effect on foreign language learning (Horwitz, 2001; Lu & Liu, 2011) while moderate levels of Second Language Tolerance of Ambiguity (SLTA) are be... see more

Reza Barzegar,Sajjad Aref Sadr

This article reports a study investigating the effect of emotional intelligence (EI) awareness-raising on Iranian university students’ overall as well as variable-specific L2 motivation. The 136 participants (107 males, 29 females) were divided into a con... see more

Zainab Abolfazli Khonbi,Karim Sadeghi

Student-directed teaching and assessment techniques are gradually dominating educational systems almost all over the world. This study investigated a cohort of male and female Iranian EFL students’ attitudes toward self-, peer-, and teacher-assessment exp... see more

Colleen A. Neary-Sundquist

This study examines the use of cohesive devices (pragmatic markers and conjunctions) in a 24,000-word corpus of transcribed oral data from 47 learners and native speakers of English. Both of these cohesive devices increase with proficiency level, but not ... see more

Elisabetta Pavan

My point of departure for this paper is that translation, so long neglected in foreign language teaching, can not only improve students’ linguistic competences in both a foreign language and their mother tongue, but also their awareness of cultural and in... see more