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Durmaz, Büsra Nur; Asik, Asuman – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2022
The present study aims to investigate the relationship between listening metacognitive awareness and listening anxiety with relation to the ambiguity tolerance in foreign language teaching. Participants included 374 participants studying at the School of Foreign Languages from three different universities in Turkey. With sequential explanatory…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ghavamnia, Maedeh – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2022
The aim of this study was to examine the effect of instruction of self-regulatory strategies on the L2 reading comprehension of Iranian EFL learners on the one hand and improve the students' self-regulated learning on the other hand. In this research, the experimental group (N=35) received instruction on self-regulatory strategies whereas the…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Jalilzadeh, Kaveh; Yeganehpour, Parisa – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2021
The purpose of this research was to examine the connection between intermediate EFL students' oral performance and their emotional intelligence (EI) as well as desire to communicate (WTC). The main objectives of this research were to examine how willing English-language learners were to communicate, in order to discover whether there was a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Communication (Thought Transfer), Anxiety
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Mullins, L. Aaron – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2019
Self-efficacy is one's belief in one's capacity to organize and execute a course of action and serves as a motivating factor, since people tend to seek opportunities in areas where they feel efficacious and avoid areas where they believe they might fail (Bandura, 1997). Furthermore, as language learners' feelings of efficacy increase, so does the…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Comprehension
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Ekmekçi, Emrah – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2018
This study specifically focuses on foreign language writing anxiety in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context in Turkey. The participants of the study are 126 prospective teachers of English attending an ELT department of a state university in Turkey. The aim of the study is to find out the levels and types of foreign language writing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Anxiety