Yang, Shizhou Reynolds, Barry Lee
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Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics
Although much is known about the benefits of providing creative writing courses to English learners, little research is available on Chinese ethnolinguistic minority learners’ creative writing in formal education. In response, this ethnographic study explored three ethnolinguistic minority learners’ engagement with a three-month elective English cr...
Ma, Wen
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Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics
Wang, Meiling Deng, Liming
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Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics
China-Africa corporate advertising is emerging as an example of the corporate advertising genre in response to the specific rhetorical context of China-Africa win-win cooperation. Drawing on Bhatia’s Critical Genre Analysis (2017), this study explores the text-internal and text-external generic features of China-Africa corporate advertising by anal...
Wei, Mengxuan Chen, Yaping
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Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics
This quantitative-oriented study investigates junior middle school EFL teachers’ beliefs about motivational practices in the language teaching process. Grounded in self-determination theory, the study examined teachers’ beliefs in three basic psychological needs (relatedness, competence and autonomy) and the effect of their teaching experience on t...
Sun, Haiyang QI, Wenbo
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Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics
Set at the interface between second language acquisition and second language writing, this study examines how different types of written corrective feedback (WCF) influence the writing accuracy of Chinese college students learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and whether WCF facilitates the students’ grasp of the focused linguistic knowledge...
Yue, Mei Fan, Xujie
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Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics
Recent research has emphasized that attitude is key to language learners’ learning outcomes. More specifically, language learners’ feelings about languages and language learning may affect their study behavior and willingness to engage with a second or foreign language. Few studies on language attitudes have been conducted with ethnic minority grou...
Liu, Yi
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Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics
With the development of world globalization, English works as a lingua franca for intercultural communication among different cultures in the world. This shift implies that introducing solely English native speaking cultures to students is not sufficient for their needs. This paper depicts the reflective teaching process of my ten years of experien...
Liu, Yujun Wu, Junjie (Gavin)
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Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics
Wu, Baiyinna
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Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics
Teachers’ beliefs toward multilingual awareness in target language learning play a significant role in shaping learners’ attitudes to language awareness, affect learners’ linguistic behavior and teachers’ teaching practice. Therefore, the present study was aimed to explore English teachers’ beliefs about Inner Mongolian university students’ multili...
Li, Guofang Yin, Xiaorong Ji, Xuejun (Ryan)
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Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics
Vocabulary knowledge is one of the most important aspects of language development. For bilingual students, early vocabulary development often predicts their future bilingual success. This paper examines early bilingual receptive vocabulary knowledge of ethnic minority children (N=135) from two large ethnic language communities (Uyghur and Kazak) in...
