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Children\u0027s Foreign Language Anxiety Scale: Preliminary Tests of Reliability and Validity Image
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Children's Foreign Language Anxiety Scale: Preliminary Tests of Reliability and Validity

Foreign language anxiety (FLA), which constitutes a serious problem in the foreign language learning process, has been mainly seen as a research issue regarding adult language learners, while it has been overlooked in children. This is because there is a lack of appropriate tools to measure FLA among children, whereas there are many studies on the scales that aim to measure anxiety levels among adult learners. Thus, the current study aims to conduct the preliminary tests of reliability and validity of the Children's Foreign Language Anxiety Scale (CFLAS) and to report on the pilot examination of reliability, validity and factor structure of the CFLAS. The findings of the pilot study show that CFLAS is a reliable and valid tool to measure FLA levels among children who learn English as a foreign language (EFL) within the age range of 7-12 in a Turkish EFL context.
Turkish EFL Teachers\u0027 and Administrators\u0027 Perceptions of Short Teacher Training Courses: the Case of CELTA Image
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Turkish EFL Teachers' and Administrators' Perceptions of Short Teacher Training Courses: the Case of CELTA

The purpose of this study was to investigate the applicability of Certificate of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CELTA) in the Turkish context and the necessity for Turkish teachers to obtain it. For this qualitative study, the data was collected by means of three tools: A CELTA survey, semi-structured interviews with teachers and the administrators and classroom observations in order to validate the data. The findings suggest that teachers are glad to take it; they admit that it contributed to them in many ways. However, they agree that it is nearly impossible to apply all the CELTA techniques in their classrooms. From the employers' perspectives, it can be inferred that CELTA is an efficient tool for professional development,but it is not must.
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The Role of Pragmatic Competence in Foreign Language Education

Pragmatic competence has become, especially in the last few decades, one of the issues that attracted attention in the field as an essential part of language competence. The realization that having a good command of linguistic knowledge in target language would not be enough to master the language has created the need to investigate the value and effect of pragmatic competence in language education. This review is intended to provide a brief overview of pragmatics and pragmatic competence, the pedagogic significance of pragmatic competence highlighting the relevant theoretical components of pragmatics. For the purposes of this review, relevant literature covering definitions of pragmatics and pragmatic competence and research carried out on pragmatic competence is presented.
A Snapshot of Signature Dynamics in an English Class in Brazil: From a Motivational Attractor Basin Towards an Attractor State Image
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A Snapshot of Signature Dynamics in an English Class in Brazil: From a Motivational Attractor Basin Towards an Attractor State

Considering the dynamic nature of the foreign language acquisition process, it seems that some components of the learning experience are competing motivational forces that directly influence the teaching and learning outcomes within the relational context of the English class. As the behavior of a complex system is by definition unpredictable and random, documenting nonlinear changes - its signature dynamics, is considered a possible way of researching it. In this perspective, this article aims to outline motivational signature dynamics of an English class using the retrodictive qualitative modelling. Firstly, the teacher's class plan plus the information from a semi-structured interview were used to recover most of the initial motivational conditions of the system - its attractor basin. After that, from the teacher's description of this class, it was possible to study the ecology of the teaching experience in interrelation with the students' motivation. An outline of a motivational change in the system state seems to indicate one of the system's possible attractor state. This result demonstrates that it is possible to document signature dynamics by properly eliciting and exploring the teaching experience.
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Dear Colleagues\u003B Image
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Dear Colleagues;

Kyung\u002DSook Cho Image
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Book Review: English Language Learning and Technology Image
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