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Ngoc, Bui My; Barrot, Jessie S. – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
This study sought to provide a comprehensive analysis of English language teaching (ELT) research in Southeast Asia (SEA) using both quantitative and qualitative data. Specifically, this paper sought to describe the characteristics, growth, impact, trajectory, and distribution of ELT research in the SEA region, determine the research themes that…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Li, Hang; Yao, Yao – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
The present study examined the effect of language background and topic on productive formulaic competence. Guided by usage-based theory of language learning, this study used a distribution-based approach to the examination of the native-likeness of formulaic usage in English timed argumentative writing. Six indices informed by a large-scale native…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Mukhopadhyay, Kankana; Chang-Koh, Sue; Har, Jie Ren Gerald – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2022
Educational experiences rooted in community engagement offer a powerful and effective method by which to prepare students as the next generation of active citizens. This study critically analyzes and illustrates the potential of using community engagement as the focus of an informal curriculum in an Asian university's living-and-learning…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Citizen Participation, Longitudinal Studies, Informal Education
Lam, Si Man; Zhou, Yisu – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2022
Widening achievement gaps driven by socioeconomic disparity have become a global concern. Yet, few studies have been able to track the changes and developments of socioeconomic-achievement gaps (SES-achievement gaps henceforward) across time. Using PISA data from 2003 to 2018, we estimated family SES-achievement gaps in seven Asian education…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Achievement Gap, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests
Chiao, Chi; Chiu, Chiung-Hui – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2018
To find out if information and communication technology (ICT) could narrow the achievement gaps among students caused by variations in their socioeconomic status, this study examines the mediating mechanism of ICT use between students' socioeconomic status (SES) and achievement. Data from the 2012 East Asia Program for International Student…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Socioeconomic Status, Academic Achievement
Chau, Salott; Cheung, Catherine – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2017
Active learning connects students to the real life situations they will encounter in their future jobs. In hospitality education, active learning implements various lively, fun activities to introduce practical scenarios students may experience in their hospitality careers. This study identifies 18 essential active-learning items of hospitality…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Hospitality Occupations, Teaching Methods, Literature Reviews
Bernardo, Allan B. I.; Salanga, Maria Guadalupe C.; Khan, Aqeel; Yeung, Susanna S. – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2016
Positive education emphasizes the role of hope in student achievement and in buffering the effects of students' difficulties in school. In this study, we demonstrate how internal and external loci-of-hope relate to students' use of different learning strategies in school. We asked 967 university students from four cities to answer the…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, College Students, Cooperative Learning, Independent Study
Kim, Hyejin – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2016
The last decade has witnessed the emergence of a new type of player in primary and secondary education in the Asia Pacific. This type is the transnational corporation (TNC) specializing in schools. I refer to these organizations as Education TNCs, which I define as private firms that operate for-profit schools in multiple countries. This paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Corporations, International Schools, Proprietary Schools
Kung, Fan-Wei – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2016
This study aims to examine whether the development of media literacy could effectively promote learners' second language (L2) oral communicative competence. Although media literacy has been revealed to have several positive effects for language learning, research regarding its use for effective L2 oral communicative competence has been lacking…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Media Literacy, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
Martin, Andrew J. – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2016
Positive education is the application of positive psychology principles to the education domain. Relative to positive psychology, positive education has not received a great deal of theoretical and empirical attention. In addition, there is a significant dearth of positive education theory and research focusing on students in the Asian region.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Psychology, Positive Attitudes
Koh, Elizabeth; Cho, Young Hoan; Caleon, Imelda – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2015
Although research from the Asia-Pacific region has been increasing, much is unknown about research trends, authors, and institutions in the region, especially in relation to learning and instruction. It is important to have an understanding of current research to identify its strengths and weaknesses and to chart future research directions. It is…
Descriptors: Network Analysis, Multivariate Analysis, Learning, Instruction
Chang, Yuwen – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2015
The relationships among future-oriented motivation, self-efficacy, task values of science, and achievement outcomes were investigated among 15-year-olds across four Asian nations who participated in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The factor structure of…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Self Efficacy, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries
Barrot, Jessie S. – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2015
The current developments in second language (L2) pedagogy and the introduction of twenty-first century education compel scholars, educators, and leading education agencies in the Asia Pacific region to revisit their respective curriculum and framework for designing and preparing their English language teaching materials. However, after surveying…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Second Language Instruction, Social Cognition, Transformative Learning
Harris, Alma; Jones, Michelle S.; Adams, Donnie; Perera, Corinne Jacqueline; Sharma, Sailesh – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2014
This article looks at high-performing education systems in Asia through the lens of leadership and leadership development. It proposes that the top-performing education systems systematically build the leadership capacity for improvement and that this is part of an implementation science geared to maximizing performance. Drawing upon initial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Effectiveness, Leadership Effectiveness, Leadership Training