IMMIGRANT PARENT vs. IMMIGRANT CHILDREN: ATTITUDES TOWARD LANGUAGE LEARNING IN THE US

Interlocutors who come from different cultural backgrounds often find themselves in need of a shared language in order to successfully communicate. Sometimes the language they share may be the native language of one and...

POOR AND GOOD LEARNERS’ LANGUAGE BELIEFS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THEIR LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGY USE

This study focuses on exploring poor and good learners’ language beliefs and their language strategy use in an attempt to see whether there is any significant relationship between the poor and good learners. This paper p...

BRIDGING THE SOCIO-COGNITIVE DIVIDE: RETHINKING THE WILLINGNESS TO COMMUNICATE CONCEPT FROM A CONVERSATION-BASED ELF PERSPECTIVE

Extending earlier research on the concept of Willingness to Communicate (WTC) (e.g., MacIntyre et al., 1998), this paper tests the WTC concept on a secondary school in Singapore where English is used as a lingua franca....

 ACQUISITION SEQUENCE OF FOUR CATEGORIES OF NON-GENERIC USE OF THE ENGLISH DEFINITE ARTICLE THE BY TURKISH SPEAKERS

 In all languages there are linguistic forms that seem simple to acquire, but difficulty in their acquisition can be posed by their function, which might be too complex to understand. The definite article the...

The Interplay between EFL High School Teachers' Beliefs<br /> and Their Instructional Practices Regarding Reading Strategies