Journal Archives
2021 · 2
Using an Online Social Annotation Tool in a Content-Based Instruction (CBI) Classroom
Online social annotation (SA) tools like Hypothes.is offer students a means of working collaboratively on an online document like a webpage. Such collaborations involve multiple students making annotations on a single di…
The Impact of Scenario-based Settings on Cognitive Reading-to-write Processes
In Scenario-based assessment (SBA), a real-life scenario is created for students to do reading and writing tasks in a computer-mediated environment. It has been recognized that task authenticity will help strengthen asse…
Chinese University Students' Perceptions of the Use and Effectiveness of Turnitin in EAP Writing
Student plagiarism has been prevalent in academic discourse. This paper investigates through a questionnaire and interviews the use and effectiveness of Turnitin, a major plagiarism detection system, in Chinese universit…
Automatic Generation of Exercises for Second Language Learning from Parallel Corpus Data
Creating language learning exercises is a time-consuming task and made-up sample sentences frequently lack authenticity. Authentic samples can be obtained from corpora, but it is necessary to identify material that is su…
Automated Writing Evaluation: The Accuracy of Grammarly's Feedback on Form
Automated Writing Evaluation (AWE) is gaining more and more presence, with Grammarly being a prominent example of this kind of software, which provides automated feedback on essay writing. While the Grammarly advertiseme…
Polyseme Transfer in the Chinese to English Machine Translation Output and Chinese Students' English Writing
Machine translation (MT) systems such as Google Translate, Bing or Youdao are increasingly present in everyday life. Anecdotal evidence suggests that language students might use them to produce written work in the target…
Developing Practical, Useful Educational Technology Applications for Course Designers, Teachers and Language Learners: An Interview with Laurence Anthony
Professor Laurence Anthony is probably best known for his corpus tools – including the freeware concordancer called AntConc. He is also known for his contributions to fields of English for Specific Purposes (ESP), Natura…
Examining the Effects of Long-Term Study Abroad on the Listenership of Japanese EFL University Students
The purpose of this study is to measure the effect of study abroad on one aspect of learners' pragmatic competence, listenership. A total of 8 Japanese university students participated in this study (4 females and 4 male…
Reflections on Multilingual Grammatical Description: An Interview with J. R. Martin on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday
In this interview, after briefly summarising his contributions to Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) up to this point in his career, Martin addresses key issues in relation to multilingual grammatical description and…
English for Prospective English Teachers in Hong Kong: Classroom Language in English Lessons
Informed by Critical Genre Analysis (CGA), an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) lesson on classroom language is designed for prospective English teachers in Hong Kong to assist them in demystifying their discursive per…
Classroom Activities in Chinese Secondary EFL Classes: Teachers' Uptake of the Learner-centred Curriculum Reform
China’s 2001 curriculum reform aimed to shift the exam-oriented teacher-dominated instructional model to quality-oriented learner-centred education. Accordingly, China’s National English Curriculum Standards focus on stu…