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  1. This research addressed the critical gap in understanding the procedure of professional identity reconstruction among university lecturers in Iran during the pandemic. Over the course of two academic semesters...

    Authors: Maria Shobeiry
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:13
  2. The role of pedagogical love in second language (L2) education has long remained under-explored due to dogmatic religious and cultural beliefs. There is insufficient scholarship on this construct at undergradu...

    Authors: Farhad Ghiasvand and Pardis Sharifpour
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:14
  3. Given the inherent association of interpreting with feelings of anxiousness, the subject of interpreting poses a formidable challenge for students in this field. A large number of prospective interpreters asse...

    Authors: Sima Ferdowsi and Mohammad Hasan Razmi
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:38
  4. Based on the related literature, both self-evaluation (SE) and reflective thinking (RT) play an important role in English language learning among EFL learners. Therefore, in this study, the effects of SE and R...

    Authors: Anwar Hammad Al-Rashidi and Amhara Aberash
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:44
  5. Given that Iran is the host of a variety of cultures characterized with diverse languages, viewpoints, and customs, the empty place of multiculturalism in its ELT system is deeply felt. The present study sough...

    Authors: Esmaeel Ali Salimi and Mostafa Rahimi Rad
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:9
  6. This study investigated the impact of techno-competence workshops on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ language achievement, technostress, academic enjoyment, and autonomy in a large university in ...

    Authors: Khaled Ahmed Abdel-Al Ibrahim and Arash Hashemifardnia
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:33
  7. Engagement is a core issue in language teaching and learning. Without the students’ active involvement in the teaching–learning process, educational objectives could not be achieved. Accordingly, the concept o...

    Authors: Amare Tesfie Birhan and Yenus Nurie
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:11
  8. This phenomenological study aimed to investigate the most common emotions experienced by expatriate EFL instructors and identify the factors that affect their emotional labor in the Turkish educational context...

    Authors: Kaveh Jalilzadeh, Atena Attaran and Christine Coombe
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:40
  9. Studying determinant factors for effective learning communities has become a priority for sustainable education in Yemen. Yet, comprehensive knowledge of academic self-efficacy (ASE), academic commitment (AC),...

    Authors: Abdo Hasan AL-Qadri, Samia Mouas, Nadia Saraa and Azzeddine Boudouaia
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:35
  10. Vocabulary is often considered as a key predictor of second language ability, and how teachers and learners’ beliefs and conceptualizations about vocabulary affect their teaching and learning has recently gain...

    Authors: Hassan A. Alshumrani
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:20
  11. It is crucial to study how L2 learners use technology when examining the lifespan technology in L2 pedagogy. Therefore, we adopted Gartner’s hype cycles to investigate the lifespan of CALL from the perspective...

    Authors: Hussein Meihami and Christopher Alexander
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:31
  12. With the growing concern for the issues and problems associated with static testing, dynamic assessment (DA) has been recently receiving increased attention as an alternative in educational settings. The prese...

    Authors: Hadiseh Salehi, Roya Khoii, Mojgan Rashtchi and Ali Akbar Arjmandnia
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:10
  13. This study explored the impact of feedback-supported tasks and peer-work activities on language learners’ engagement, self-esteem, and language growth in a university setting in Saudi Arabia. Employing a seque...

    Authors: Ali Ramadan Elbaioumi Shaddad and Biruk Jember
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:39
  14. Autonomous learning is extensively acknowledged as a desirable goal in undergraduate education as it is found to comply with learner-centered approaches and enable learners to pursue life-long learning. Howeve...

    Authors: Hashmatullah Tareen, BaoHui Zhang and Mohammad Tahir Haand
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:8
  15. Ignoring technology in teaching English language in EFL contexts persuaded the researchers to do this study. In fact, this research looked at how Saudi Arabian EFL learners' academic achievement (AA), creativi...

    Authors: Omar Abu Al-majd and Barana Belton
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:41
  16. Within the field of teacher education, the concept of self-efficacy—which includes teachers' self-perceptions of their competence and abilities in particular tasks—has attracted a lot of attention. It shows ho...

    Authors: Mohammadnasser Mossafaie, Goudarz Alibakhshi and Hossein Heidari Tabrizi
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:42
  17. This study investigated the effect of using Stoodle software program on Iranian EFL teachers’ autonomy, creativity, and work engagement in the light of teaching experience and gender. The participants comprise...

    Authors: Omid Salmanpour, Omid Tabatabaei, Hadi Salehi and Melor Md Yunus
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:7
  18. Despite the critical role of academic English writing proficiency in higher education, existing research has inadequately addressed the comparative impact of teacher-led and student-involved assessments on wri...

    Authors: Aisah Apridayani, Wei Han and Kanyanat Sakkanayok
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:37
  19. Positive psychology (PP) is the study of the role of positive emotions in optimizing performance. In response to a dearth of research on harnessing the potential of PP in enriching language teacher education, ...

    Authors: Elnaz Oladrostam, Teymour Rahmati and Musa Nushi
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:4
  20. In the current research, the impacts of portfolio assessment (PA) on the grit tendencies, motivation, and willingness to communicate (WTC) of Saudi Arabian EFL learners were examined. The population of this st...

    Authors: Khaled Ahmed AbdelAl Ibrahim and Yasha Rakhshani
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:36
  21. This study investigated the Performance-Based Assessment (PBA) impact on academic resilience (AR), motivation, teacher support (TS), and personal best goals (PBGs) in different learning environments, specifica...

    Authors: Alaa Aladini, Sania Bayat and Mohamed Sayed Abdellatif
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:5
  22. Reviewing the literature reveals that the role of teacher assessment literacy (TAL) in teacher job stress (TJS) and teacher job burnout (TJB) among English as foreign language (EFL) teachers in Iran has remain...

    Authors: Afsheen Rezai
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:3
  23. Given the importance of academic motivation, numerous inquiries have scrutinized the antecedents of this psycho-emotional variable in various educational environments. Nonetheless, the role of students’ attitu...

    Authors: Robert Kirkpatrick, Junko Kirkpatrick and Ali Derakhshan
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:23
  24. The advent of innovative online tools has ushered in new possibilities for enhancing the quality of language learning. This study delved into the influence of the flipped classroom approach on augmenting the c...

    Authors: Fatemeh Samadi, Manoocher Jafarigohar, Masood Saeedi, Mansoor Ganji and Farzaneh Khodabandeh
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:24
  25. The primary objective of this study is to enhance the English language proficiency of undergraduate students pursuing bachelor's degree programs. This is achieved through the development of a mandatory English...

    Authors: Yongkang Wang and Pengfei Chen
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:6
  26. Researchers have firm reason to unlock the potential of social networking technologies today because of the rapid development of these platforms, which may be used to enhance educational outcomes. Despite the ...

    Authors: Khaled Ahmed Abdel-Al Ibrahim and Nirvana Basim
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:2
  27. While gamified technology integration in vocabulary instruction within a flipped classroom has yielded beneficial teaching outcomes, specific studies have raised concerns about potential adverse effects linked...

    Authors: Damar Isti Pratiwi, Sri Wuli Fitriati, Issy Yuliasri and Budi Waluyo
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:1
  28. A professional training or staff development endeavor is known as an in-service program. During these programs, professionals get training and have the opportunity to discuss their work with others who are in ...

    Authors: Sayed M. Ismail and Iman Nikpoo
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:46
  29. Task-based instruction (TBI) is a pedagogical approach that centers on engaging learners in meaningful and communicative tasks to promote language acquisition, active participation, and practical language use....

    Authors: Sayed M. Ismail, Chuanli Wang and Radman Jamalyar
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:42
  30. Teachers' psychological wellbeing is defined as their evaluation and contentment with their own fulfillment, wellness, and profession as a concept best observable in positive psychology. Therefore, the psychol...

    Authors: Sayed M. Ismail, Indrajit Patra, HeXu Yang and Bemnet Ajanil
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:44
  31. Estimating the difficulty of reading tests is critical in second language education and assessment. This study was aimed at examining various text features that might influence the difficulty level of a high-s...

    Authors: Elaheh Rafatbakhsh and Alireza Ahmadi
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:41
  32. Textism, which refers to the special language used in text messaging, is widely used in several forms of communication, such as texting, online chatting and emails. This increased use of textism has alarmed th...

    Authors: Fatima Ambreen, Burhan Ozdemir and Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:38
  33. Over the past few years, there has been an increasing focus on innovative approaches to language instruction in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts. Task-supported language Instruction (TSLI) has emer...

    Authors: Marzieh Souzandehfar and Khaled Ahmed Abdel-Al Ibrahim
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:43
  34. The use of three-dimensional virtual worlds (3DVWs) in language education has been widely acknowledged in the field, and researchers have expressed a growing interest in their proliferation in second language ...

    Authors: Watcharapol Wiboolyasarin, Nattawut Jinowat, Kanokpan Wiboolyasarin, Ruedee Kamonsawad, Phornrat Tiranant and Poomipat Boonyakitanont
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:37
  35. Speaking constitutes one of the main goals of learning a second language (L2). Despite the increasing attention on the role of planning and language transfer in L2 learning, the combined effect of using differ...

    Authors: Yingsheng Liu and Pui-sze Yeung
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:35
  36. Writing across the curriculum (WAC) has been viewed as a movement that links several academic fields across various academic departments in different institutions. WAC has emerged as a powerful pedagogical too...

    Authors: Majed Abdullah Alharbi and Hani Hamd Albelihi
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:28
  37. In this study, an attempt was made to investigate the constraints encountered by student teachers during their practicum experiences at some selected colleges in Oromia, Ethiopia. Adopting a convergent mixed r...

    Authors: Hika Negash Galana, Adinew Tadesse Degago, Alemayehu Getachew Tsegaye and Abera Admasu Endashaw
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:39
  38. The process-genre approach, varied feedback types, and technology integration have been shown to improve students' writing skills, but there is little research on how these three variables interact when implem...

    Authors: Tipaya Peungcharoenkun and Budi Waluyo
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:34
  39. Teacher professional identity has been widely investigated in second/foreign language (L2) research in the past decade. However, the identity conflicts that English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers with va...

    Authors: Farhad Ghiasvand, Maryam Kogani and Faezeh Nemati
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:45
  40. Reflection in education has seen an upsurge in research interest since as reported by Dewey (How we think, Prometheus Books, Buffalo, 1991) ground-breaking work, which plays an integral role in fostering stude...

    Authors: Hailay Tesfay Gebremariam and Dagnew Mache Asgede
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:30
  41. Although TBLT has been the subject of many prior studies, no research has addressed the impact of TBLT through social media (SM), specifically the Telegram app, on academic engagement, emotion regulation, will...

    Authors: Asmaa Falah Theiyab Alazemi, Asma Gheisari and Indrajit Patra
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:47
  42. Teacher decision-making and pedagogical reasoning have been extensively investigated in the last two decades. However, there is a scarcity of research that examines the two constructs together in one single st...

    Authors: Sam Saeedian and Ata Ghaderi
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:36
  43. Given the importance of specialized vocabulary in scientific communication and academic discourse, there is a growing need to create wordlists to address the vocabulary-learning needs of university students an...

    Authors: Ismail Xodabande, Mahmood Reza Atai, Mohammad R. Hashemi and Paul Thompson
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:32
  44. Indonesian aviation cadets’ complex and multi-faceted tasks have directed them to exhaustion and less learning focus. Their motivation and self-efficacy in learning Aviation English are hampered so their anxie...

    Authors: Laila Rochmawati, Fatmawati and Meita Maharani Sukma
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:40
  45. This study investigates the perception of the three Mandarin high vowels /i, u, y/ after dental, retroflex, and palatal fricatives and affricates (/s/-/ʦ/-/ʦʰ/; /ʂ/-/tʂ/-/tʂʰ/, and /ʨ/, /ʨʰ/, /ɕ/) by native En...

    Authors: Wenhui Zhu, Sun-Hee Lee and Xinting Zhang
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:31
  46. This study investigates the effects of teacher-focused feedback (TF) and automatic writing evaluation (AWE) on global writing performance as well as syntactic complexity, accuracy, lexical diversity, and fluen...

    Authors: Zahra Fakher Ajabshir and Saman Ebadi
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:26
  47. The current study aims at unpacking the language ideologies of the STEM + Business graduates in relation to English medium instruction (EMI) and how they perceive the contribution of EMI towards English profic...

    Authors: Abdul Karim, Md. Shaiful Islam, M. Obaidul Hamid, Mohammad Mosiur Rahman and Evita Umama Amin
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:27
  48. In recent years, more attention has been paid to the psychological and physical well-being of educators. Nevertheless, inadequate attention has been paid to the mediator function of teacher immunity (TI), teac...

    Authors: Ehsan Namaziandost and Tahereh Heydarnejad
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:33
  49. This study investigates how reflection-supported learning of writing affects students' writing attitudes and writing achievement goal orientations. First-year natural sciences students from Jimma University we...

    Authors: Taddese Deti, Tekle Ferede and Dagne Tiruneh
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:29

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