At the Crossroads: Challenges of Foreign Language Learning

Part I. On Mental Processes and L1 Interference in L2 Learning

1. Treating Errors in Learners’ Writing: Techniques and Processing of Corrective Feedback
Francesca La Russa

2. Mind, Language and Experience: Improving the Understanding of Figurative Language in EFL
Tomasz Piotr Krawczyk

3. Basic Features of Conceptual Sphere “Geopolitics” in Modern English-Speaking Worldview
Tetiana Kurbatova

4. On the Mongolian Students’ Difficulties in Acquiring English Relative Clauses, Due to Syntactic Structure Difference
Namsrai Munkhtsetseg

Part II. On Individual Learner Differences

5. Individual Difference Variables as Mediating Influences on Success or Failure in Form-Focused Instruction
Mirosław Pawlak

6. Extraverts and Introverts in the FL Classroom Setting
Katarzyna Ożańska-Ponikwia

7. FL Pronunciation Anxiety and Motivation: Results of a Mixed-Method Study
Małgorzata Baran-Łucarz

8. L2 Motivational Strategies that Do not Work: Students’ Evaluations and Suggestions
Tim S.O. Lee

Part III. On Linguistic Challenges in Various Socio-cultural Contexts

9. Challenges of Interdisciplinary University Programs of Studies: The Case of English in Public Communication
Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska

10. Assessing SLLs with SpLDs: Challenges and Opportunities for Equity in Education
Dina Tsagari, Ines Sperling

11. The Formation of a Modern Translation Competence in Translator Training
Larysa Mosiyevych

Keywords: Education, Language Education, Applied Linguistics