Journal Archives
2020 · 4
Reflections on the 70-year Development of Foreign-Language Teaching and Research in China
Over the past 70 years, and in the past 40 years in particular, there has been tremendous growth in foreign-language teaching and research in China. While this growth has taken the teaching and associated research into a…
Action Research at the Interface: Personal-Professional Reflections on the First 20 Years
This is a personal-professional reflection on 20 years of doing Action Research (AR), based on which AR is positioned as being at three different interfaces: the personal-professional; the theory-practice; and the quanti…
Learning in Collective Lesson Planning Discussions: Shifts in EFL Teachers' Practices
This study examines the learning and related impact on classroom teaching of six EFL high school teachers' participation in collective lesson planning discussions (CLPDs) organised by a teaching research officer. Data we…
Assessing Young English Learners: Language Assessment Literacy of Chinese Primary School English Teachers
Numerous English training programs have sprung up in China for young learners aged between 5 and 12 as education technology companies and training schools have seen the huge commercial potential in children-oriented Engl…
The Effect of Combining Computer-Mediated Communication with Instruction on EFL Learners' Pragmatic Competence
In the field of computer-mediated communication (CMC), while many studies have focused on utilising various CMC-based tools (e.g. email, video conferencing and virtual worlds) to promote second language (L2) learning, sc…
The Impact of Collaborative Writing on English Continuation Tasks of Senior High School Students
This study aims to apply collaborative writing to the teaching practice of continuation tasks. More specifically, it attempts to explore: 1) The differences between texts produced by pairs and those finished by individua…
Factors Influencing Learners' Motivation in Mobile-Assisted Language Learning: A Case Study on Four Chinese EFL Learners
As mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) has become increasingly popular among learners of English, their motivation in using mobile technologies to learn the language has attracted the attention of researchers. This…
Development and Construct Validation of a Diagnostic Pronunciation Rating Scale by Many-Facet Rasch Analysis
Assessment of pronunciation has long been established as an integral component of speaking assessment, usually combined with other dimensions such as fluency, lexico-grammatical resources and topic development to generat…
Engagement, Technology, and Language Tasks: Optimizing Student Learning
The purpose of this paper is to share options for language instruction and present opportunities for language learning based on what the literature says about what makes an effective learning task. The paper focuses spec…
The Changing Landscape of English Teaching
The field of TESOL has seen paradigmatic shifts related to how language and language proficiency are conceptualized as well as how we approach teaching English as an additional language (EAL). Embedding the teaching of E…