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Editorial Note: List of reviewers in 2020- Acknowledgments with Deep Appreciation
Although 2020 was a year of unpredictability due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and we have been faced with a great deal of challenges, on behalf of the publisher, Springer Nature, and the editorial board of the Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, we are deeply grateful to the reviewers of the journal in 2020. As it is rightly endorsed, peer review is the building block of journal publication. Without distinguished and committed scholars who voluntarily review the submissions, no journal can keep publishing high quality and timely research papers and we are not an exception too.
Read MoreCall for papers: Technology in the teaching and assessment of writing
The teaching and assessment of writing is considered one of the most demanding tasks for the language teacher. Technology has played a significant role in facilitating these tasks, for example through the use of electronic dictionaries, automated writing evaluation, the use of corpora and numerous innovations over the last four decades. However, more recent technological developments have not been investigated for their affordances to the field of writing instruction to the same degree. For example, whereas the potential befits of mobile technologies, digital gaming, learning analytics and digital storytelling (to name only a few) have been widely documented for other domains, the same cannot be said for the teaching and assessment of writing. This special issue thus calls for papers that will fill this gap.
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The pedagogical efficacy of ESP courses for Iranian students of engineering from students’ and instructors’ perspectives
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Comparative study of the effect of face-to-face and computer mediated conversation modalities on student engagement: speaking skill in focus
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Using inquiry-based writing instruction to develop students’ academic writing skills
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25 years on, the written error correction debate continues: an interview with John Truscott
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EFL learners’ perceptions and preferences of written corrective feedback: a case study of university students from Mainland China
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Student engagement and foreign language learning through online social networks
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Pragmatic functions of emoji in internet-based communication---a corpus-based study
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The role of EFL learners’ demotivation, perceptions of classroom activities, and mastery goal in predicting their language achievement and burnout
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An investigation of cross-linguistic transfer between Chinese and English: a meta-analysis
Aims and scope
Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education is an interdisciplinary journal of second and foreign language education studies, a peer-reviewed journal of international scope. It provides a forum for high-quality linguistic and experimental research on topics which investigate applied linguistic theories,second and foreign language learning and teaching. It offers new insights not only into applied linguistics but also into a wide variety of second and foreign language education phenomena. The disciplines covered include applied linguistics, educational linguistics, second language acquisition, foreign language learning and teaching, etc.
The journal welcomes authoritative, innovative applied linguistic scholarship from all viewpoints and practices, centered on topics such as:
- applied linguistics and educational linguistics
- current approaches to second and foreign language education: topics such as task-based instruction, content-based instruction, big-data-based instruction, and professional communication
- second and foreign language learning: topics such as motivation, process and mechanism of learning, language aptitude, learning styles and strategies, learning approaches and skills, language transfer, interlanguage, neurobiology of language learning
- second and foreign language teaching: topics such as teaching methodology, skills for teachers, teacher education, teacher cognition, teacher preparation and professional development, second language assessment, bilingual education
- course and syllabus design
- language planning and policy
- the role of technology in second and foreign language education
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- ISSN: 2363-5169 (electronic)
