Describes research concerning the facilitation of pronunciation accuracy of sixty-one non-native speakers of English. The sample consisted of Arabic, Japanese, Persian, and Thai speakers. Twenty variables were considered. (Author/POP)

Earlier version of this paper presented at the Modern Language Center, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Canada. (RS)

To mark the 40th anniversary of "Language Learning," the journal's first article is reprinted and identifies five motives for studying foreign languages: (1) "knowledge of a foreign language is the sign of a cultivated man"; (2) foreign insularism; (3) necessity of creating a political fusion; (4) trade and colonization; and (5) scientific and…

This study applied social psychological constructs to examine the linguistic attitudes and motivations of 301 Hungarian high school students learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Factor and correlational analyses of the results of a survey questionnaire revealed that xenophilic, sociocultural, instrumental, and media-use reasons were most…