To succeed in today’s competitive job market and globalized world, multilingual education has become a popular trend in developed and developing countries. Asia is a multilingual place with more than 2, 200 languages...
This preliminary study sets out to examine the extent to which authentic materials affect Japanese university students' classroom motivation, seeking an effective way to teach mixed-level language classes at universi...
The research investigated the relationship between students' motivation, autonomy, self-concept and their performance in CALL listening, and the effectiveness of CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning). A questionn...
After reviewing the main theoretical researches in second/foreign language learning motivation, this paper presents a case study of motivation. In this study, a questionnaire is conducted twice among 156 college stude...
This paper introduces process writing approach, and theories of learner motivation and learner autonomy. A fieldwork experiment is conducted on the comparison of on-line learning and traditional face-to-face learning ...
Through questionnaire investigation, three major motivation types have been identified in less successful second year students (judged by the state exam CET4) in Hainan University: type A — integrative/intrinsic moti...
English, has not only become the international language as it is spoken by a large number of native speakers of other languages and severs as a language of wider communication but also has achieved a genuinely global ...
The dissertation is to try to convey some of language recognition and understanding problems as it viewedfrom psychological perspective. It mainly discusses some kinds of theoretical problems that involve in secondlan...
Acquaintance with learners' cultural frame of reference can help second language teachers adjust and extend patterns of communication and create the optimal classroom conditions for acquisition of target language. Thi...
Motivation is one of the most important factors in successful language learning and to a large extent it is the teachers' responsibility to foster students' motivation. This paper reports on the adoption of interactiv...