Farkhani, Zahra Akbarzade Badiei, Ghazal Rostami, Farzad
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Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education
During the coronavirus pandemic, online education continued to expand across varied educational factors. Therefore, the teachers had to develop and change some of the strategies used in their classes previously. Online classroom management is a synchronous-based online learning environment in education that is worthwhile to modify. For this purpose...
Ebn-Abbasi, Faramarz Nushi, Musa
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Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education
The pivotal role of communication in second language (L2) learning has triggered plethoric research to identify factors that may influence learners’ willingness to communicate (L2 WTC). However, there is a dearth of comparative research on L2 WTC, especially among EFL learners studying English at different educational institutions. To this end, the...
Li, Yaling Kang, Yeqin Ding, Dan Zhang, Nianqing
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Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education
A decade ago, an online survey resulted in the “Protecting Cantonese Movement” (PCM) in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, around which some articles were produced. Based on the bibliometric analysis of data retrieved from the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) , the Web of Science , and Google Scholar keyword searches during 2010 an...
Beshir, Mohammed Yigzaw, Abiy
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Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education
This study aimed to evaluate whether or not students engage in self-help behavior when they encounter difficulties during their presentations. The participants were second year EFL college trainees; the data were obtained from their classroom presentations. The audio recorded data has been transcribed, coded, and categorized into quantitative and q...
Assi, Elham Rashtchi, Mojgan
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Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education
Although online learning has been studied extensively over the last two decades, students’ feedback toward such classes during the COVID-19 pandemic seems essential due to their effects on the education systems. The present exploratory sequential mixed methods study aimed to address university students’ affection, perception, and problems in online...
Alomaim, Thamir Issa Altameemi, Yaser Mohammed
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Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education
This is a mixed methodology study that explores language education policy (LEP) of using the first language (L1) in teaching the second language (L2). The literature points out that students’ perspective towards LEP of the preparatory year program (PYP) in Saudi universities has not been investigated before. This study engages with understanding st...
Huang, Min Kuang, Fangtao Ling, Ying
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Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education
With the blended learning widespread in higher education, the research on the factors which can influence the students’ engagement and their working mechanism has become more and more valuable. In this study, college students’ perception on three aspects, i.e. their cognitive engagement and emotional engagement in two different activities, the acti...
Al-Mwzaiji, Khaled Nasser Ali Alzubi, Ali Abbas Falah
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Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education
Students need more independent roles to evaluate their learning performance, especially in the absence of teachers’ feedback due to some constraints such as technology and poor experience. This study investigates the potential of online self-evaluation on students’ writing skills in English as a foreign language (EFL). It examines the preparatory y...
Pourdana, Natasha
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Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education
Diagnostic assessment (DIA) is under-researched in second/foreign language education despite its common practice across a wide range of professions such as medicine, mechanics, and information technology. This study aimed at exploring the impact of computer-assisted DIA on the sustainable improvement of English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) learners’...
Almalki, Nada Algethami, Ghazi
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Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education
Explicit pronunciation instruction has been shown to be effective in improving language learners’ pronunciation, yet it is not clear whether the same can be said about implicit pronunciation instruction. In addition, the role of orthography in improving language learners’ pronunciation is yet to be fully understood. Thus, this research examined the...
