Skip to main content
Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education
Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education Cover Image

Articles

Page 2 of 6

  1. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  2. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  3. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  4. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  5. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  6. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  7. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  8. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  9. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  10. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  11. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  12. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  13. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  14. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  15. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  16. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  17. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  18. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  19. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  20. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  21. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  22. The extensive use of automated speech scoring in large-scale speaking assessment can be revolutionary not only to test design and rating, but also to the learning and instruction of speaking based on how stude...

    Authors: Kaixuan Gong
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:25
    Content type: Research Published on:

  24. The present mixed-methods study investigated the factors that build Iranian bilingual Azeri-Persian English as a foreign language teacher resilience (TR) in non-profit and state schools. To do so, 205 male and...

    Authors: Khadijeh Rezazadeh, Mostafa Janebi Enayat and Fatemeh Poorebrahim
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:23
    Content type: Research Published on:

  25. Reading strategies and cognitive styles have been the objective of many researchers. However, the relation between these two concepts remains unclear. This paper is focusing on three goals. Firstly, we verify ...

    Authors: Wei-lun Lu, Nicol Dostálová, David Lacko, Alžběta Šašinková and Čeněk Šašinka
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:22
    Content type: Research Published on:

  26. Research on the relationship between students’ language learning motivation (LLM), language learning strategies (LLS), self-efficacy beliefs (SEB), and achievement in non-European languages has been both limit...

    Authors: Raees Calafato
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:20
    Content type: Research Published on:

  27. At the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, synchronous online learning replaced physical classes worldwide. However, sustaining the quality of education during this transition was a challenge. Specifically,...

    Authors: Siham Mousa Alhaider
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:19
    Content type: Research Published on:

  28. This study examines the learning patterns of intermediate and advanced Korean learners in the acquisition of causative expressions according to their proficiency and the causative sentence type. We measured th...

    Authors: Hyeyun Jeong and Hojung Kim
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:21
    Content type: Research Published on:

  29. Previous research has explored how L2 students with one specific level of English proficiency engage with teacher written corrective feedback (WCF) underpinned by a tripartite dimensional construct of student ...

    Authors: Jie Pan, Huimei Chen and Surong Yuan
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:18
    Content type: Research Published on:

  31. Entering the age of globalization and multi-cultures, the education system has become more accountable to provide a positive and productive learning atmosphere in which both life skills and academic skills are...

    Authors: Zahra Bakhtiari Moghadam, Mehry Haddad Narafshan and Massoud Tajadini
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:15
    Content type: Research Published on:

  32. This paper looks at the role of English in Brunei and the sociocultural structure of Bahasa/language in Brunei Darussalam. The aim of this research is to critically analyse sociocultural theory from Vygotsky’s...

    Authors: Roshan K. Morve, Xu Wen and Nasser Mansour
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:14
    Content type: Research Published on:

  33. The field experience in teacher education programs is limited to the formal teaching at assigned schools. However, there is a need for opportunities for pre-service teachers to practice teaching in other learn...

    Authors: Cemil Gökhan Karacan and Aynur Kesen Mutlu
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:12
    Content type: Research Published on:

  35. Especially over the last decades, the use of cinema in the English as a foreign language (EFL) class has been gaining momentum. Although this interest has resulted in a complex body of research, no review to d...

    Authors: Estefanía Sánchez-Auñón, Pedro Antonio Férez-Mora and Fuensanta Monroy-Hernández
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:10
    Content type: Review Published on:

  36. Within the last two decades, researchers have begun to investigate how L2 learners process syntactic, morpho-syntactic, and lexical information during the comprehension of L2 sentences. The present study aimed...

    Authors: Masoomeh Taghizadeh
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:9
    Content type: Research Published on:

  37. This paper considers the issues facing expatriate instructors teaching English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) graduation seminars (commonly known as the “zemi” in Japan) in Japanese universities and aims to ...

    Authors: Martin Hawkes and Calum Adamson
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:7
    Content type: Research Published on:

  38. Although studies on written feedback have confirmed the effectiveness of multiple sources of feedback in promoting learners’ accuracy, much remains to be discovered about its impact on other aspects of languag...

    Authors: Nang Kham Thi and Marianne Nikolov
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:6
    Content type: Research Published on:

  39. This study explored the effects of concurrent group dynamic assessment (G-DA) and cumulative G-DA on Iranian pre-intermediate English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ interlanguage pragmatic comprehension...

    Authors: Afsheen Rezai
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:8
    Content type: Research Published on:

  40. Since the 1990s, the emphasis on intelligibility as a goal in pronunciation teaching rather than near-native or nativelike competence has been reinforced by the increasing use of English as a lingua franca. Th...

    Authors: Ying Wang and Xu Wen
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:17
    Content type: Research Published on:

  41. With increasing attention being paid to teacher education, various theoretical perspectives have been adopted to study on how pre-service teachers learn to teach. This study employed complexity theory as conce...

    Authors: Ming Li, Fangtao Kuang and Wei Dan
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:13
    Content type: Research Published on:

  42. The present quasi-experimental study investigated which component of processing instruction (PI) is responsible for its beneficial effects and whether EFL learners with different learning styles similarly bene...

    Authors: Mastaneh Haghani and Mojgan Rashtchi
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:3
    Content type: Research Published on:

  43. Intercultural communicative competence (ICC) has been widely acknowledged as a core element of today’s foreign language education. However, even though the importance of intercultural language teaching is comm...

    Authors: Tzu-Yin Lee, Yun-Chi Ho and Che-Han Chen
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:4
    Content type: Research Published on:

  45. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) designed according to the First Principles of Instruction (FPI). A 15-h Japanese CLIL course was implemented....

    Authors: Hao Hao, Hitoshi Susono, Xuewang Geng, Li Chen and Masanori Yamada
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2023 8:2
    Content type: Research Published on:

  48. The role of internet technology in higher education and particularly in teaching English as a Foreign language is increasingly prominent because of the interest in the ways in which technology can be applied t...

    Authors: Huimei Chen and Jie Pan
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2022 7:34
    Content type: Research Published on:

  49. The current study aimed to compare the influence of explicit versus implicit instruction on EFL learners’ use of interactional metadiscourse markers in their writing. The study also aimed to explore the percep...

    Authors: Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs, Noorchaya Yahya and Miroslaw Pawlak
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2022 7:44
    Content type: Research Published on:

  50. This qualitative study explores Korean high school students’ exercising of agency in processing and producing L2 writing. Data were collected from off-line and online interviews, field notes, and other written...

    Authors: Jinsil Jang
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2022 7:31
    Content type: Research Published on:
Submit manuscript

Annual Journal Metrics

  • Citation Impact 2023
    Journal Impact Factor: 1.5
    5-year Journal Impact Factor: 1.7
    Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.382
    SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.530

    Speed 2023
    Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 7
    Submission to acceptance (median days): 113

    Usage 2023
    Downloads: 465,548
    Altmetric mentions: 59

This journal is indexed by

  • Emerging Sources Citation Index
  • Scopus
  • Google Scholar
  • DOAJ
  • EBSCO Discovery Service
  • EBSCO TOC Premier
  • EBSCO Education Source 
  • ERIC
  • OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  • ProQuest-ExLibris Summon
  • ISSN: 2363-5169 (electronic)