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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. Reading is an essential skill for students to perform effectively and successfully in any academic setting. This skill is vital for foreign language learners as it provides chances for students to be exposed t...

    Authors: Zulfiquar Ali, Sarala Thulasi Palpanadan, Muhammad Mujtaba Asad, Prathamesh Churi and Ehsan Namaziandost
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2022 7:28
  29. A new wave of developing English textbooks for compulsory education in China demands for more attention on the integration of textbook research and practice. While increasing research has investigated the desi...

    Authors: Molly Xie Pan and Yan Zhu
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2022 7:30
  30. During the coronavirus pandemic, online education continued to expand across varied educational factors. Therefore, the teachers had to develop and change some of the strategies used in their classes previousl...

    Authors: Zahra Akbarzade Farkhani, Ghazal Badiei and Farzad Rostami
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2022 7:25
  31. For me, language policy and planning (LPP) is both a field of practical enquiry and a field of theoretical enquiry. As a practical field, LPP is about actions; actions that are taken by various agents and agen...

    Authors: Li Wei
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2022 7:43
  32. This special issue sets out to revisit major bilingual and multilingual education policy and planning issues in key cities across the dynamic Greater Bay Area (GBA) of China (including Guangdong, Hong Kong, an...

    Authors: Zhisheng (Edward) Wen, Lili Han, Guangwei Hu and Mark Feng Teng
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2022 7:42
  33. Hong Kong’s ‘trilingual and biliterate’ language policy (TaB, 三語兩文) is almost as old as the special administrative region (SAR) itself. Through free education and language support measures in school, students are...

    Authors: David C. S. Li
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2022 7:41
  34. Research and practice in task-based language teaching (TBLT) as a cognitively oriented second language (L2) pedagogy have grown substantially over the last three decades. A concurrent development in language e...

    Authors: Gavin Bui and Kevin W. H. Tai
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2022 7:40
  35. The present study investigated effective techniques of teaching vocabulary in an Afghan EFL setting. It also attempts to determine the impacts of the participants’ demographic profile ((i.e., gender, age, firs...

    Authors: Sayeed Asif Akramy, Abdul Qawi Noori, Sayeed Naqibullah Orfan and Aminuddin Hashemi
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2022 7:23
  36. This qualitative study analyzes the use of translanguaging in co-learning activities involving four junior-one students in an English remedial class. The school advocates a policy of English immersion in the r...

    Authors: Brian Hok-Shing Chan and Chris Ion-Pang Chou
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2022 7:37
  37. A decade ago, an online survey resulted in the “Protecting Cantonese Movement” (PCM) in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, around which some articles were produced. Based on the bibliometric analysis of dat...

    Authors: Yaling Li, Yeqin Kang, Dan Ding and Nianqing Zhang
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2022 7:36
  38. The development of English as a global language has urged the field of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) to implement some reforms in relation to textbook design and curriculum developmen...

    Authors: Fan Fang, Limin Yuan, Hongchen Xu and Xueyi Wang
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2022 7:35
  39. The pivotal role of communication in second language (L2) learning has triggered plethoric research to identify factors that may influence learners’ willingness to communicate (L2 WTC). However, there is a dea...

    Authors: Faramarz Ebn-Abbasi and Musa Nushi
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2022 7:24
  40. In order to have a better understanding of the nature of reading behavior, it is quite essential to scrutinize the underlying assumptions of the two competing theories: the componential approach and unitary hy...

    Authors: Wendiyfraw Wanna
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2022 7:22

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