Intellectual (cognitive) development, the emergence of increasingly sophisticated forms or levels of understanding, reasoning, and rationality is an ongoing process of reflection, coordination, and social interaction that begins in early childhood and continues, at least in some cases, long into adulthood (Moshman, 2003). In this process, language…

The main purposes of this study are: (a) to identify the constructs that may generate communication apprehension and to investigate how they influence communication apprehension and reduce the level of willingness to communicate; and (b) to explore the basic mentality underlying these constructs. The data were obtained from semi-structured…

Any curriculum consists of several components: objectives, attitudes, time, students and teachers, needs analysis, classroom activities, materials, study skills, language skills, vocabulary, grammar and assessment. Before setting up a program or course of study, these components should be determined and described in detail. In fact, these elements…

The purpose of this paper is to reconsider the concept of the native speaker of English in light of the heightened status of English as a global language. The broadening and acceptance of criteria regarding who is a native speaker is historically discussed and placed in a modern context. In particular, perceptions towards the English native…

Applied Skehan's (1998) processing perspective on language use to evaluate intermediate to advanced English-as-a-Second-Language learners' competence in telling a story based on visual prompts. The purpose was to find out how the test takers' proficiency profiles vary according to three areas of competence: accuracy, complexity, and fluency across…

Investigates how socioaffective strategies used by language learners affect reading comprehension. Participants were 50 Korean English-as-a-Foreign-Language college students. (Author/VWL)

Focuses on learners' language in interactions between nonnative speakers (NNSs). Investigated features of nonnative speakers' interaction with NNSs from different cultural backgrounds in a second language learning context. Explores what types of misleading expressions and questions are generated in NNS/NNS interactions. (Author/VWL)

Analyzes the occurrence of silent pauses n monologues, especially in modified speech, such as in public address, caretaker talk, and foreigner talk. Discusses speech rate, articulation rate, pause unit length, individual pause length, and pause percentage to overall speech time. (Author/VWL)

Presents issues in English-as-a-Foreign-Language conversation textbook development. Explores the content of the textbooks and the emphases on teaching cultural items for meaningful communicative competence. Suggests that some cultural items be considered to be themes of each unit at a macro level; at a micro level, detailed activities and tasks…

Examines Japanese English-as-a-Foreign-Language learners' requestive strategies. Data were obtained through the Situation Assessment Questionnaire and the Discourse Completion test and analyzed in terms of the relationship of the subjects' awareness of situation and frequency of the word "please," characteristics of subjects' strategies in English…

Compared the effectiveness of three different learning strategies on Korean English-as-a-Foreign-Language learners' vocabulary comprehension: context, semantic mapping, and word lists. University students were randomly assigned to one of three treatments of vocabulary instruction and examined on various levels of vocabulary knowledge using three…

Studied the extent to which first language and second language (l2) writing proficiency can predict performance in L2 writing. Findings suggest that writing in a foreign or second language context is necessarily a language problem, not a writing problem. (Author/VWL)

Aims to integrate culture in the English-as-a-Foreign-Language classroom using the World Wide Web. Korean college students in pre-service teacher training were assigned group projects that consisted of gathering information on the culture of an English-speaking country through an Internet search and presenting the results of their projects in…

Significant, real-life instances of cross-cultural miscommunication or conflict are presented and categorized into verbal and non-verbal parts. each case is discussed and analyzed for the possible causes and feasible solutions. (Author/VWL)

Investigates Korean speakers' interlanguage system of English intonation and analyzes it as a result of interaction of constraints that determine prosodic phrasing and tone placement. (Author/VWL)