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Sedigheh Karimpour; Roya Jafari; Mostafa Nazari – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2024
This study drew on a community of practice (CoP) perspective and examined the role of religious ideology in 10 Iranian English language teachers' identity construction. The study was situated within a narrative inquiry methodology. Data were collected from semi-structured interviews and narrative frames to capture how Islamic principles contribute…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Religion
Delin Kong; Rui Yuan; Min Zou – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2024
Despite a clarion call to cultivate EFL teachers' intercultural competence (IC) in supporting their classroom practice, there is a lack of empirical research on how pre-service EFL teachers develop their IC. To fill the gap, the study examined two pre-service EFL teachers' IC development during a service-learning programme in China. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Xiaosa Li; Ping Ke – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2024
Teacher feedback literacy (TFL) is an important aspect of teacher professional development and can exert a huge impact upon student learning. However, it has not received sufficient attention from higher education researchers or feedback researchers. This study reports a novice Chinese university EFL teacher's efforts to develop her feedback…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Feedback (Response)
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
Hsu, Liwei; Chen, Yen-Jung – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
The integration of technology in teachers' pedagogical practices has become the norm within various educational settings including the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) praxis. Although the technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge (TPACK) of EFL teachers has been explored previously, the contextual effects of the diffusion of technology at…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, English (Second Language)
Trent, John; Nguyen, Chinh Duc – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2021
Set against a background of international concern about teacher stress and attrition, this paper reports the results of a qualitative study which investigated the experiences of one group of primary school English language teachers in Vietnam. Drawing upon positioning theory and Bakhtin's dialogism, results suggest that the professional…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Elementary School Teachers
Jiang, Lianjiang; Yuan, Kaihao; Yu, Shulin – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2021
While it has been well noted that novice EFL teachers are subject to identity change when transitioning from pre-service to novice stage, the nuanced process of such change remains underexplored. Based on data gathered from four novice EFL teachers in Macau, this paper examines such process using the constructs of imagined identities and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
Taghizadeh, Mahboubeh; Hajhosseini, Fatemeh – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2021
The level of learner satisfaction, according to Chen and Yao (J Educ Res 4(7):1667-1671, 2016), has a main role in measuring the effectiveness of blended learning, which is influenced by various factors. The purpose of this study was thus twofold: (a) to explore graduate students' attitudes, interaction patterns, and satisfaction with blended…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Student Satisfaction, Educational Quality
Yan, Qiaozhen; Zhang, Lawrence Jun; Cheng, Xiaolong – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2021
While there is extensive literature on how classroom-based assessment (CBA) can be effectively put into practice, little is known about its implementation in L2 contexts, especially in the young English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learner context. This study endeavored to investigate teachers' CBA practices and factors that might exert influences…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
Wu, Peng; Wang, Yanyan – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2021
This paper reports a study investigating business English teachers' belief about online assessment using Q methodology. To address the common practice that teachers had to conduct online assessment during COVID-19 period and with performance assessment as theoretical foundation, this paper studied 22 Chinese business English teachers' belief when…
Descriptors: Business English, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Electronic Learning
Pu, Shi; Xu, Hao – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2021
This paper reports on the results from a multiple-case study of how EFL school teachers in China coped with online assessment for 10 weeks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We looked into the online assessment practices of seven teachers from seven regions of China, through individual interview, teachers' journals, instructional designs for online…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
Mahapatra, Santosh Kumar – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2021
ESL/EFL teachers, especially those working in higher education, across the world were required to teach online after the spread on COVID-19. Many empirical studies have been conducted in the last 1 year to investigate various aspects of online teaching and learning of languages. However, online ESL teaching in South Asian contexts remains almost…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Peng, Yue; Xiong, Tao – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2021
This study examines how three Chinese as a second language (CSL) teachers in a Chinese university setting appropriated the communicative approach through influences from their past language experiences. Although communicative pedagogy has been in place for decades, research reports that it still largely challenges teachers' conceptions of teaching…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Instruction, College Faculty, Foreign Countries
Zhang, Hong; Yuan, Rui; He, Xiaoyan – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2020
This study investigates Chinese university EFL teachers' perceptions of critical thinking (CT) and its teaching through a questionnaire and follow-up interviews. The findings reveal that English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers in China strongly agreed that CT should be an integral part of the EFL curriculum and classroom teaching; however,…
Descriptors: College Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Marwan, Ardi; Sweeney, Trudy – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2019
This paper reports on a qualitative research project investigating the integration of technology by three English teachers in a public secondary school in Indonesia. Third generation activity theory and Engeström and Sannino's (J Organ Change Manag 24(3):368-387, 2011) methodological framework for the identification and analysis of different types…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction