Relationship among Iranian EFL students’ foreign language anxiety, foreign language listening anxiety and their listening comprehension.

Anxiety is an influential factor in a foreign language learning domain and plays a crucial role in language learners’ performance. The following study was conducted to explore the possible impact of Foreign Language Anxiety and Foreign Language Listening Anxiety on language learners’ listening skill. The researcher was interested to know the correlation that could exist among the three variables: Listening Comprehension, Foreign Language Anxiety and Foreign Language Listening Anxiety. The participants of the study were 210 Iranian EFL students in Iran. The study revealed that there was -.414 correlations between FLLA and listening comprehension and -.214 correlations between FLA and listening comprehension whereas FLA and FLLA enjoyed a .513 correlation. It can be concluded that the relationship between Foreign Language Anxiety and Foreign Language Listening Anxiety of the participants are in accordance with each other. Furthermore the result shows that the impact of FLLA on Iranian students’ listening comprehension skill is significantly more problematic. Therefore it is recommended that FL teachers and learners should be more aware of the hindering effect of FLA and FLLA in particular on the process of teaching and learning the listening comprehension

Feedback’s Efficiency: To what extent does the teacher-student relationship affect ESL student’s writing using conference feedback

Teachers’ understandings of feedback probably influence the type and quality of feedback that they provide and also enhances teacher-student relationship in the classroom setting. A qualitative study design was adopted, whereby six undergraduates participated in focus group interviews. Participants were first asked to write an argumentative essay. They then submitted the draft for the teacher’s feedback. After two days of correcting the papers, conference feedback was provided by the teacher. The focus group interview was audio-taped and transcribed, as well as written performance scores from students’ writing samples, and audio-taped teacher-student writing conferences. Teachers’ understandings of feedback were strongly focused on enhancing relationship with the student instead of improving learning. Similar factors are expected in other contexts, though agreement rates should reflect local policy priorities and cultural values. Emerging themes provided insights into value of conference feedback in academic writing

Investigating EFL students’ EAP needs on productive skills in Malaysian universities

Many international students are currently pursuing their post-secondary studies in Malaysia. At the beginning of each study programme in Malaysian universities, international students typically attend EAP courses for a better performance on campus. However, it is believed that these courses do not satisfactorily meet the EFL international students’ needs, and this is probably because such courses do not take into consideration a comprehensive need analysis. This survey is one of the forerunning efforts to find out what tasks of English writing and speaking skills are actually needed by EFL international students in order to improve their ability of English as these two skills have been reported to be the most essential ones in academic settings. To this end, a Need Analysis questionnaire was employed to examine EFL international students’ needs over productive skills. The questionnaire was sent to respondents via email and 60 post-secondary students responded and returned the questionnaire. The data analysis revealed that the majority of the participants considered speaking as the most important language skill that they needed to improve. Also, they reported that Explaining Ideas, Giving a Presentation, Giving Reasons, and Discussing in Meetings ranked on top of their speaking needs. In addition, the most needed writing tasks in EAP classes included Taking Lecture Notes and Writing Journal Papers/Articles. Moreover, gender was found to be significant in determining speaking tasks needed by EFL international students. Finally, PhD students reported to have different speaking needs compared to students studying Master and Bachelor programmes. Findings of this study are majorly congruent with other studies on international students’ needs in academic settings, which can be of worth for the current EAP/ESP courses offered in Malaysia for EFL international students

Promotional tool in Guardian SS 15 / Lailatul Noreen Md Noordin

The purpose of study this study is to explain about the application of marketing communication tools that mostly Guardian SS15 Subang Jaya used for January 2009 until October 2009 that generate their income. Conclusion suggest that the company should apply more to personal selling more accurately that will give them benefit to use the method as combine to the 4 element also