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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)
Qianying Xuan; Alan Cheung; Hongbiao Yin; Xiaoxiao Yu; Ruifang Huang – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2024
The production-oriented approach (POA) is a nascent language-teaching approach that considers the aptitudes of Chinese learners. This study compared POA with task-based language teaching (TBLT) and presentation-practice-production (PPP) theoretically and empirically. A four-quadrant model and a theoretical comparison table are proposed to clarify…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Second Language Learning
Wang, Jing; Song, Baomei – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
To motivate learners to engage in writing courses and help to improve their writing performance, a mobile-game-based collaborative prewriting approach was proposed in this study. A quasi-experiment was implemented by recruiting two classes of non-English major students from a university in northeastern China. Class 1 learned to write under the…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Collaborative Writing, Prewriting, Foreign Countries
Syairofi, Ahmad; Mujahid, Zainul; Mustofa, Mutmainnah; Ubaidillah, M. Faruq; Namaziandost, Ehsan – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
Much empirical research on textbook analysis has been undertaken. However, little evidence with regard to the adoption of SLA findings in the textbook analysis was reported, particularly for the Indonesian EFL textbooks. To fill this void, this study aimed at analyzing a textbook endorsed by the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Textbooks
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)
Wu, Wen-Chi Vivian; Hsieh, Jun Chen; Yang, Jie Chi – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
This mixed-methods research explored the affordances of a writing instruction featuring constructivist learning, reading-writing connection, flipped learning, and online intercultural exchanges with regard to English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners' writing performance and intercultural sensitivity. Forty-eight Taiwanese English-major…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Constructivism (Learning), Reading Writing Relationship, Flipped Classroom
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
Chen, Chen; Du, Xiangyun – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2022
This study explores project-based online intercultural collaborative learning for non-native beginners' CFL learning (Chinese as a Foreign Language) in Denmark. Adopting a quasi-experimental design, two parallel classes were involved in the study wherein the same learning contents and project-based learning was used in both. An additional element…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning
Li, Jiao; Cui, Xuehai – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2021
The increasing importance of English academic writing (EAW) in China requires concerted efforts to explore how to enhance the experience and quality of students' learning of EAW skills. This paper reports on a study that examined the perceived usefulness of College English (CE) textbooks for Chinese college students' EAW development. The study…
Descriptors: Textbooks, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Academic 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
Zhan, Ying; Jiang, Yushan; Wan, Zhi Hong; Guo, Jin Jun – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2021
Drawing from Expectancy-Value Theory, this study explored the extent to which the interaction between learning motives for and self-efficacy in learning English as a foreign language (EFL) predicted deep language learning strategies by involving 693 undergraduates from mainland China in a survey. Stepwise multiple regression indicated that (i) as…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Learning Strategies, Learning Theories, Second Language Learning
Mirza Suzani, Samad – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2021
The present study sought to investigate the effect of podcasting on the listening comprehension skill of Iranian TEFL students at the Islamic Azad University of Shiraz. It also aimed to examine students' motivation towards the use of podcasts as a learning tool. To this end, two groups, an experimental and a control group (n = 30 in each group)…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Audio Equipment, Pretests Posttests, Comparative Analysis
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