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  1. Technological advancements have opened new avenues for English as a foreign language (EFL) learners to engage in self-directed learning beyond traditional classrooms. Informal digital learning of English (IDLE...

    Authors: Hao Zhang, Lingming Du, Shaoqian Luo, Hui Xun, Aiyan Yang and Yinjie Tang
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:45
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  2. Standard methods for assessing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing often prioritize top-down criteria that may overlook subtle patterns and styles employed by different learners. We demonstrate a syste...

    Authors: Dennis Tay and Dandan Xie
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:43
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  3. This study investigated the effects of dialogue journal writing on writing anxiety and attitude among first-year students at Hawassa university, Ethiopia. A quasi-experimental design was employed, involving tw...

    Authors: Abebe Tilahun Mogesse, Hailu Wubshet Degefu and Eskinder Getachew Degaga
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:39
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  4. With English viewed as the global language of education and research, universities around the world are increasingly adopting English as the medium of instruction (EMI). One context in which EMI has long been ...

    Authors: Reema Abouzeid, Cassi Liardet and Victor Khachan
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:47
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  5. Several factors influence the acquisition of L2 reading, including similarities and differences between the L1 and L2 orthographies, orthographic depth and consistency, and the method of reading instruction pr...

    Authors: Christine Brennan and Emily Heneman-Lee
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:41
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  6. Academic writing presents significant challenges for L2 English-speaking students in EMI contexts. This study investigates Indonesian graduate students’ writing strategies for academic essay assignments in suc...

    Authors: Dedy Subandowo, Csilla Sárdi and Fenny Thresia
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:38
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  7. Multimodality, the integration of verbal, gestural, and contextual cues, is critical for teacher-student interaction in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms; however, existing frameworks fail to syst...

    Authors: Siyu Wang and Yi Dai
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:37
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  8. Rapid changes in people’s digital practices have significantly influenced the concept of literacy and literacy education, particularly in higher education worldwide. Amid these changes, second language teachin...

    Authors: Santosh Mahapatra and Svetlana Koltovskaia
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:44
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  10. Syntactic priming, wherein prior exposure to a linguistic structure influences subsequent processing, has been less extensively explored for ditransitive structures (double-object and prepositional-object) amo...

    Authors: Meiqi Li
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:42
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  11. While the relative effects of Processing instruction (PI) and various types of output-based instruction have been widely examined, the types of L2 knowledge generated after receiving instruction are under-rese...

    Authors: Yan Liang and Lawrence Jun Zhang
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:34
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  12. Visual Management (VM), tool of Lean Philosophy, facilitates operation optimisation by improving procedural communication and efficiency while enhancing team accountability and coordination. This paper explore...

    Authors: Sugandha Bhatnagar, Pushp Lata and Kuldip Singh Sangwan
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:32
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  13. Reflective practice (RP) by EFL teachers has been found to have the potential to improve teachers’ pedagogical and professional competencies. This study reports the implementation of a contextualized RP model ...

    Authors: Yenni Rozimela, Sitti Fatimah and Nora Fudhla
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:35
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  14. Microlearning, with its potential to deliver focused, engaging, and learner-centred instruction, has become an innovative strategy in English as a foreign language (EFL) instruction. However, its practical imp...

    Authors: Mohammad Hamad Al-khresheh, Rim Al Basheer Ben Ali, Mayez Almayez, Shatha Fahad Alruwaili and Aisha Fadl Almola Mohammed Alimam
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:33
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  15. The present study examined any possible relationship between teachers’ emotional contagion and their learners’ achievement and motivation for learning English as a foreign language (EFL). In addition, it explo...

    Authors: Yahya Gordani, Mahnaz Ezhdehakosh, Arash Saharkhiz Arabani and Davood Taghipour Bazargani
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:31
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  16. This research explores the use of reflective writing as a pedagogical tool to support Vietnamese EFL tertiary-level learners in improving their English pronunciation by gaining deeper insights into their indiv...

    Authors: Ton Nu My Nhat and Hoang Thi Thu Hien
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:25
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  18. The concept of culture is intricate, and there is ongoing debate regarding which cultural categories should be emphasised in language instruction. This research examines the cultura franca, inspired by the notion...

    Authors: Eko Widianto and Tina-Karen Pusse
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:30
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  19. This study investigated the effects of flipped learning on student grammar test scores and student perceptions in a South Korean university general English class. Fifty-eight lower-intermediate students from f...

    Authors: Michael Fraser Harrison
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:29
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  20. Teacher professional identity is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon shaped by socio-cultural and institutional contexts, yet it remains underexplored in university settings. This study investigates how earl...

    Authors: Erguvan Uras Eren and Derin Atay
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:22
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  22. The burgeoning field of Positive Psychology in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) has underscored the importance of emotions in foreign language learning, predominantly focusing on anxiety, enjoyment, and bored...

    Authors: Yanlin Zhao, Samantha Curle and Lianrui Yang
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:17
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  23. This study investigated the difficulty students encounter when trying to translate polysemous words, as polysemy is often overlooked by teachers of translation and by the curriculum itself. This practice natur...

    Authors: Omar A. Alkhonini
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:28
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  24. The English for Academic Purposes (EAP) is pivotal for scholarly communication; however, it poses significant challenges for non-native English speakers. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have been extens...

    Authors: Zhendong Du and Kenji Hashimoto
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:27
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  25. This study explores the potential of a pedagogical model based on Flipped Learning (FL) to support the development of speaking interaction skills in Spanish as a foreign language (SFL). A preliminary instructi...

    Authors: Sofía Sooyeon Choi, Cristina Herrero-Fernández and Ocarina Masid Blanco
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:19
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  30. In the context of a global reliance on the English language for communication and commerce, Vietnam’s national foreign languages project seeks to improve graduates’ English competencies, with a key focus on im...

    Authors: Thuc Anh Nguyen
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:24
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  31. Despite the growing prevalence of Self-Regulated Learning in education, its application in writing contexts to enhance students’ academic writing skills still needs to be explored and warrants urgent attention...

    Authors: Candradewi Wahyu Anggraeni, Januarius Mujiyanto, Katharina Rustipa and Widhiyanto
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:15
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  32. Teacher identity exploration in English language teacher education has taken on a heightened level of significance. Despite extensive research on pre-service English teachers’ initial pedagogical experiences, ...

    Authors: Jiahua Ye, Wenbo Fan and Yongxiang Wang
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:11
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  33. Given the importance of teaching quality in the education of students, especially adolescents in the critical stage of identity formation, emotions arising from sensory experiences play a significant role in t...

    Authors: Reza Pishghadam, Shima Ebrahimi and Zahra Jahani
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:9
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  34. Pre-service EFL (henceforth, L2) teacher training often involves significant emotional and motivational challenges. The present study investigates the relationship between pre-service EFL teachers’ (1) grit to...

    Authors: Puput Arfiandhani and Osamu Takeuchi
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:23
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  35. This study adopts a cross-disciplinary standpoint to center around the interactive discourse in Modern Chinese classrooms, which is predominantly intended to explore the interactive pattern between teachers an...

    Authors: Xiaoyu Yang and Anchalee Jansem
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:20
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  36. Despite the recent interest in the emotions of language teachers, there is limited research on the emotions experienced by teacher educators during their identity transition from being teachers to teacher educ...

    Authors: Zia Tajeddin and Zahra Keshvari
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:14
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  37. Despite its feasibility and potential, technology-supported peer feedback in foreign language speaking classrooms has been under-researched. The present study aimed to extend this line of research by modeling ...

    Authors: Yan Ding and Jing Zhu
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:10
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  39. This study aims to examine the attitudes, self-efficacy and perceived school environment of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers in primary schools in China. Additionally, it seeks to explore the poten...

    Authors: Jie Song, Jahirul Mullick and Tao Jiang
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:18
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  40. This study explores the impact of sociocultural theory-based instruction on enhancing L2 learners’ writing skills including grammatical accuracy, coherence, cohesion, task response, and lexical resources for t...

    Authors: Hamid Allami, Boshra Najari and Zia Tajeddin
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:7
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  41. The present study investigates the correlations between socio-biographical variables (such as age, gender, years of studying English language, and educational environment) and foreign language anxiety learning...

    Authors: Anna Stepanovna Borisova, Oksana Ivanovna Aleksandrova, Svetlana Alekseevna Moskvitcheva and Muhammad Arif Soomro
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:6
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  42. Although research interest in second language (L2) teachers has grown, novice L2 teachers remain understudied, especially writing teachers. Existing research on L2 writing teachers has largely centred on cogni...

    Authors: Mingyu Li
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:5
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  43. This study examined whether students’ perceived social interactions within different learning activities predicted their willingness to communicate (WTC) in second language (L2) classrooms. The sample was 932 ...

    Authors: He Han and Bing Li
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:4
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  44. English-medium instruction (EMI) is gaining popularity in higher education (HE) worldwide, with the aim of enhancing students’ English proficiency and professional abilities. However, many students still strug...

    Authors: Vararin Charoenpornsook and Athip Thumvichit
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:3
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  45. The field of second language acquisition (SLA) research had long been governed by a paradigm that prioritized cognition over emotion. Recently, increased attention has been drawn to the role of perezhivanie in la...

    Authors: Wei Li
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:2
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  46. Studies of EFL teachers’ professional identity have experienced a sociological turn. As a result, much research attention has been showered upon exploring EFL teachers’ identity construction under the multiple...

    Authors: Han Shi, Yunsong Wang and Yongliang Wang
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2025 10:1
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  47. As the traditional teaching paradigm is reversed in Flipped Classroom Model (FCM), it has the potential to empower the teacher to allocate more valuable face-to-face classroom time for productive language task...

    Authors: Nalan Şan
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:77
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  48. The current study explores error fossilization in the academic writing of Saudi English as a Foreign Language (EFL) undergraduate learners. A manual textual analysis approach, employing corpus content analysis...

    Authors: Hani Hamad M. Albelihi and Arif Al-Ahdal
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:75
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  49. Teaching language has challenges for many reasons, including learners’ backgrounds, learning styles, motivation, and socio-economic status. However, EFL students can benefit from differentiation across the lea...

    Authors: Omid Tajik, Shagofah Noor and Jawad Golzar
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:74
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  50. Joining the tide of global internationalisation of higher education, Chinese universities have embraced English-medium instruction (EMI) as a strategic response. The adoption of EMI is to comply with governmen...

    Authors: Qun Zheng and Tae-Hee Choi
    Citation: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2024 9:76
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