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Leveraging Relational Agency: CLIL Teacher Collaboration in One Kazakhstani University RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 D. Philip Montgomery, Peter I. De Costa
Although numerous studies about the experiences of teachers in English-medium instruction (EMI) and Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) include calls for greater collaboration between content subject teachers and their English (or second language) teacher counterparts, few describe actual collaborative relationships. In this Kazakhstan-based qualitative study, we applied a teacher agency
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The Motivation of Uncertainty: Gamifying Vocabulary Learning RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Ali H Al-Hoorie, Othman Albijadi
As language learning is a long-term process, it is important to find ways of sustaining learning motivation over time. One approach for addressing this problem is gamifying learning tasks. Gamification refers to the incorporation of gaming elements, such as uncertainty, in the learning process so that motivation can be sustained. The present study reports an intervention investigating the effectiveness
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Scaffolding Summary Writing through the ‘Reading to Learn’ Pedagogy RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Huifang Li, Ingrid Wijeyewardene, Susan Stackhouse
Summary writing is a core competency for students pursuing university studies, but the demands of the reading-to-writing process can be fraught for those students new to the university context, particularly international students for whom English is an additional language. This paper reports on a study that investigated the effectiveness of using the Reading to Learn (R2L) pedagogy for students’ summary
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A Coherent Reflective Framework for Second-Language Writing Teacher Preparation RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Icy Lee
The second-language writing literature has focused a lot more on how students write and learn to write than how teachers teach and learn to teach writing. Even less literature has been devoted to how teacher educators prepare pre-service and in-service teachers to teach writing. This Viewpoint article serves to fill the void by proposing a three-pronged reflective framework for second-language writing
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Realizing Corrective Feedback in Task-Based Chatbots Engineered for Second Language Learning RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Dongkwang Shin, Jang Ho Lee, Wonjun Izac Noh
Building on the work of customized chatbots for language teaching and learning and the second-language acquisition literature on corrective feedback (CF), this article showcases an innovative practice for building a tailored and task-based chatbot to provide CF. Given that extant chatbots are generally not sensitive to learners’ grammatical errors, we illustrate a way to install a CF function by using
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Kialo Edu RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Bing Mei, Peipei Xiong, Hongyu Xu
Online discussion has been widely used as a tool to support language learning. However, to date, there still remain many challenges for language teachers to efficacy of online discussion. This technology review provides a quick view of Kialo Edu, an online debate platform. It emphasizes the platform’s utility in enhancing critical thinking, writing skills, and collaboration among language learners
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Using Call Annie as a Generative Artificial Intelligence Speaking Partner for Language Learners RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Yuwei Wan, Benjamin Luke Moorhouse
Developing English speaking skills can be challenging for many English language learners. The advent of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) has prompted the emergence of a growing number of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots designed to tackle these challenges. One popular tool is ‘Call Annie,’ a GAI video chatbot that can act as a virtual assistant, enabling users to engage in immersive
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“Whoa! Incredible!:” Language Learning Experiences in Virtual Reality RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Melinda Dooly, Tricia Thrasher, Randall Sadler
Recently, immersive virtual reality (VR) environments for language learning have garnered interest from researchers and practitioners alike, based on their realistic imitations of environments wher...
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Artificial Intelligence in English Language Teaching: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Nicky Hockly
The use of educational technologies in English language teaching (ELT) has become widely accepted in the post-pandemic era, and, for better or worse, some of these technologies rely on artificial i...
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Exploring the Challenges of Technology in Language Teaching in the Aftermath of the Pandemic RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Glenn Stockwell, Yijen Wang
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been varied, and while there was a clear upsurge in the use of technology in language and learning contexts during the worst lockdown periods, the long-term ...
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Academic Success in English Medium Courses: Exploring Student Challenges, Opinions, Language Proficiency and L2 Use RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Rifat Kamaşak, Kari Sahan
The growth of English medium instruction (EMI) programs at universities worldwide has raised questions about the implications of teaching through L2 English on students’ content learning outcomes. ...
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Narrative Identity and Positive Youth Development in Turkish Emerging Adults: The Moderating Role of Cultural Self-Construals RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Alp Aytuglu, Ayfer Dost-Gözkan, Pınar Şengül-Tığ, Burcu Buğan-Kısır, Geoffrey L. Brown
The current study examined the associations between narrative coherence, the 5Cs of positive youth development, and cultural self-construals among 91 Turkish emerging adults (48 females, 42 males, ...
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Innovative Qualitative Research in HRD: A New Design Framework RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Chad R. Lochmiller, Yonjoo Cho, Jessica Nina Lester
In the last few decades, there has been a proliferation of qualitative methodologies and methods. Within HRD, however, there has been a persistent use of particular kinds of qualitative methodologi...
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Emergent Total Endovascular Arch Repair for Contained Aortic Arch Rupture: Another Tool in the Box RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Nicole Kus, Justin A. Robinson, Michael R. Hall, Mehrdad Ghoreishi, Bradley Taylor, Shahab Toursavadkohi
To date, emergent total endovascular aortic arch repair has not been described in the literature. We present a 67-year-old female with a poorly differentiated posterior mediastinal sarcoma. Imaging...
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Tracking the Effects: Examining the Opportunity Stratification Hypothesis in Action RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Kristian Edosomwan, Jemimah L. Young, Bettie Ray Butler, Jamaal R. Young, John A. Williams, III
The relationship between academic tracking and exclusionary discipline actions has only been studied in a limited number of empirical studies. By placing students at the lower strata, schools depri...
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Evaluation of Naples Score for Long-Term Mortality in Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Undergoing Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Faysal Şaylık, Tufan Çınar, Murat Selçuk, Tayyar Akbulut, Mert İlker Hayıroğlu, İbrahim Halil Tanboğa
The Naples score (NS), which is a composite of cardiovascular adverse event predictors including neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio, lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio, albumin, and total cholesterol, has em...
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Cross-National Support for the Welfare State Under Wealth Inequality RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Amalie Sofie Jensen, Andreas Wiedemann
Wealth is often more unequally distributed than income, and there are considerable differences across countries. In this paper, we argue that wealth inequality helps explain cross-national variatio...
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Practices of disobedience and clandestine citizenships: A proposal towards an anarchist theory of art RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Pablo Angel Lugo
This article will analyse the relations between anarchism and artistic practices. The relationship between anarchy and art has been well documented ever since political anarchism was first defined ...
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Peer Attachment Style Moderates the Effect of Mood on Creativity RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Yingcong Chen, Suping Luo, Ling Wang, Huiting Miao, Rongrong Xi, Zheng Luo, Zhenhong Wang
The present study investigated the moderating role of peer attachment style in the relationship between mood and creativity. An experiment was conducted with a sample of 267 undergraduate students ...
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ChatGPT for Language Teaching and Learning RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Lucas Kohnke, Benjamin Luke Moorhouse, Di Zou
In this technology review, we explore the affordances of the generative AI chatbot ChatGPT for language teaching and learning. In addition to this, we also present debates and drawbacks of ChatGPT....
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Artificial Intelligence-Based Content Generator Technology for Young English-as-a-Foreign-Language Learners’ Reading Enjoyment RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Jang Ho Lee, Dongkwang Shin, Wonjun Noh
Artificial intelligence has recently seen tremendous growth, and been applied to several fields, including the second-language domain. In this article, we share an innovative practice based on one ...
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Miro: Promoting Collaboration through Online Whiteboard Interaction RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Thomas Anthony Chun Hun Chan, Jason Man-Bo Ho, Michael Tom
To create a more collaborative and communicative learning environment, digital tools are often looked to as possible solutions. Miro, an online whiteboard, is one such tool that allows students to ...
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Relationships Between Young/Older Japanese Women and Filipino/Western English Teachers: Age, Gender, Ethnicity and English-Speaker Status RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Yoko Kobayashi
Pre-pandemic studies indicate that East Asian students’ migration to ASEAN Outer Circle nations to study English by no means marks their departure from an idealized anglophone English world. Via re...
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Technology-enhanced Reflection and Teacher Development: A Student Teacher's Journey RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Yanna Li, Steve Walsh
This article reports on the findings from a technology-enhanced teacher learning project where the SETTVEO app (Self Evaluation of Teacher Talk through Video Enhanced Observation) was used to suppo...
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Virtual Distance in Project Work: What We Have Learned From the Pandemic RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Christoph A. Hafner, Sichen Xia
The Covid-19 pandemic posed novel challenges to language teachers and learners, as ‘emergency remote teaching' became a necessity in order for teachers and learners to isolate from one another. Muc...
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Digital Language Teaching 5.0: Technologies, Trends and Competencies RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Joel C. Meniado
Digital Language Teaching 5.0, a new language teaching paradigm that applies the digital pedagogies and technologies of the fifth Industrial Revolution (Industry 5.0), is expected to transform the ...
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Collaborative Materials Design: How a School Teacher, a University Researcher, and a Professional Textbook Writer Interact RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Hao Xu, Wei Ren, Shulin Yu
This paper reports on a study that examines how a school teacher, a university researcher, and a professional textbook writer interact when they collaborate in designing materials for English langu...
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Metacognition in Language Teaching and Research: A Conversation With Professor Lawrence Jun Zhang RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Zhiqing Xu
Professor Lawrence Jun Zhang is a leading scholar in the field of language education, especially in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL), who has published extensively on metacog...
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A Technology Report of Padlet RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Hye Min Oh
This article is about how language teachers can use Padlet to facilitate discussions and learning through research and collaboration.
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English as a Foreign Language Learners’ Guide to Argument–Counterargument Skills: ProCon.org RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Yan Zhang
A well-written argumentative essay requires a thorough analysis of the topic with sufficient supporting evidence. However, obtaining information on the topic, summarizing the reading materials, and...
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Digital Storytelling: A Literacy-Building Tool to Promote Willingness to Communicate in a Second Language RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Xiang Shen, Xunbing Shen, Jian-E Peng
Digital storytelling has made its way into second language classrooms due to its great potential in promoting linguistic and non-linguistic outcomes increasingly recognized by second language educa...
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Maximizing the Potential of Reflective Practice in Pre-Service Language Teacher Education: The Issue of Authenticity RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Rui Yuan
Reflective practice (RP) has been widely promoted in many second language teacher education programs to foster pre-service teachers’ pedagogical competence. However, the effectiveness of RP has oft...
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A Technology Report on Nearpod RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Analyn A Caroy
In the post-pandemic educational context where learning modalities are either hybrid flexible or purely face-to-face, the use of digital presentation tools remains valuable, particularly for educat...
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Exploratory Practice as a Professional Development Strategy for English-Language Teachers in Indonesia RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Junjun Muhamad Ramdani, Sally Baker, Xuesong (Andy) Gao
The COVID-19 pandemic forced university-based language teachers to rely on technology for teaching. While the challenges of the rushed move to online teaching have been well documented, less is kno...
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A Systematic Review of Technology Reviews in Language Teaching and Learning Journals RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Benjamin Luke Moorhouse, Lucas Kohnke, Yuwei Wan
Technology reviews are a specific article genre published in several language teaching and learning journals. Their emergence is likely due to the proliferation of technology that facilitates and s...
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Student Engagement with Written Feedback: Critical Issues and Way Forward RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Zhicheng Mao, Icy Lee
Although a surfeit of research has investigated the technicality and efficacy of feedback, much less attention has been directed towards student engagement with written feedback. In second-language...
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Willingness to Listen in English: Voices from Preservice English Teachers in Turkish Higher Education RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Ali Karakaş, Yusop Boonsuk
Willingness to communicate (WTC) in a target language is considered a critical variable impacting engagement when students learn the language. Notwithstanding the research conducted on WTC of stude...
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English-as-a-Foreign-Language Teachers’ Beliefs and Coursebook Adaptation Practices: A Latent Profile Analysis RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2022-12-25 Hong Zhang, Wei Liu, Huiqin Li
This study reports on English-as-a-foreign-language teachers’ beliefs about coursebooks and their adaptation profiles; it also unveils the demographic characteristics that differentiate the profile...
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Exploring a Collaborative Approach to Peer Feedback in EFL Writing: How Do Students Participate? RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Kai Guo, Xinyu Chen, Shen Qiao
Although prior studies have suggested the benefits of a collaborative approach to providing peer feedback in EFL writing, little is known about how students engage in collaborative peer feedback (C...
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Teaching Active Listening and Viewing in the Language Classroom: Subtitling through VisualSubSync RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2022-12-18 Ju Wen, Lan Yi
The rapid advancement in video technologies in recent years has made the creating and editing of subtitles for a video increasingly feasible. For a long time, however, the pedagogical potentials of...
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Designing Teaching for Transfer in English for Academic Purposes RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2022-11-27 Heon Jeon
Transfer of learning is an important goal of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) education where multilingual students learn knowledge and skills of academic literacy to use in other contexts of wr...
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Transformative Learning: English Language Teachers’ Experience of Engagement in Classroom Research in Singapore RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Susan Gwee, Hwee Leng Toh-Heng
This qualitative study, situated within an interpretivist paradigm, hypothesized that teachers who engage in their own classroom research are more likely to undergo changes to their habits of mind ...
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Directed Motivational Currents in Second Language: Investigating the Effects of Positive and Negative Feedback on Energy Investment and Goal Commitment RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Nourollah Zarrinabadi, Masoumeh Soleimani
This study examined the role of positive and negative feedback on goal commitment and energy investment among English as a foreign language learners who experienced directed motivational currents (...
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Improving Performance and Metacognitive Awareness in Listening through Metacognitive Instruction for Chinese Language Learners RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2022-10-09 Limei Zhang, Xiaoqin Yu, Christine CM Goh
This article introduces the use of the Metacognitive Awareness Listening Questionnaire (MALQ) in Chinese learning to improve Singapore secondary students’ Chinese listening ability. The practice ai...
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Revisiting Praise as Feedback in L2 Writing: Where are we Going? RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2022-09-25 Yu Zhou, Shulin Yu, Peisha Wu
While a plethora of studies have been conducted on corrective feedback in L2 writing, praise as feedback has received less attention in L2 writing despite its well-acknowledged motivating functions...
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Cognitive Diagnosis in Language Assessment: A Thematic Review RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Huan Mei, Huilin Chen
As a significant breakthrough in educational measurement, cognitive diagnostic assessment (CDA) has made up for the shortcomings of traditional assessment practice by providing fine-grained informa...
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Translanguaging in Language Teaching and Learning: Current Practices and Future Directions RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Fan Fang, Lawrence Jun Zhang, Pramod K Sah
The field of applied linguistics and teaching English to speakers of other languages has experienced various reforms in relation to the ontology and epistemology of English language education. From the early debate challenging the dichotomy of native and non-native speakers of English (Liu, 1999) and the development of World Englishes (Kachru, 1992), to the more recent acceleration of Global Englishes
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Translanguaging and Trans-Semiotizing for Critical Integration of Content and Language in Plurilingual Educational Settings RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Bong-gi Sohn, Pedro dos Santos, Angel M. Y. Lin
Arising in Europe in the early 1990s, content and language integrated learning (CLIL) has become a popular educational approach. CLIL involves a dual focus on content and language learning with an ...
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Emotions in Student Teachers’ L2 Learning Experiences: Do Language Ideologies Play a Role? RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Chit Cheung Matthew Sung
This paper reports on a qualitative study which investigated a group of student teachers’ emotions in their second language (L2) learning experiences, with particular attention to the mediating rol...
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Teacher Agency in Creating a Translingual Space in Nepal’s Multilingual English-Medium Schools RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Prem Phyak, Pramod K Sah, Nani Babu Ghimire, Anju Lama
This paper focuses on teacher agency in creating a ‘translanguaging space’ in Nepal’s multilingual public schools. Drawing on the ethnographic data from two public schools, we discuss how teachers ...
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Cultivating Critical Translingual Awareness: Challenges and Possibilities for Teachers and Teacher Educators RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Carlo Cinaglia, Peter I De Costa
Translanguaging has been put forth as an asset-based perspective to language education that recognizes the diverse communicative repertoires of plurilingual students. In this thematic review, we hi...
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Global Englishes Pedagogical Activities for English-as-a-Foreign Language Settings and Beyond: Understanding Thai Teachers’ Practices RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Yusop Boonsuk, Fa-ezah Wasoh, Eric A Ambele
As diverse linguacultural users of English use English in different contexts, the language has evolved into diverse varieties. With this transformation, traditional English-as-a-foreign-language-oriented pedagogies with strict compliance to native English norms are directly challenged by Global Englishes pedagogies. However, with fewer studies on Global Englishes-oriented activities in English-as-a-foreign-language
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Speeko: An Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Personal Public Speaking Coach RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Bing Mei, Wenya Qi, Xiao Huang, Shuo Huang
Recent years have witnessed the growing presence of artificial intelligence in language learning apps. Against this backdrop, this technology review provides an overview of the affordances of Speeko and discusses its potential in developing English-as-a-foreign-language students’ public speaking skills.
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Translingual Practices and English as an Additional Language: A Conversation with Professor Suresh Canagarajah RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Lawrence Jun Zhang
Suresh Canagarajah is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor and Director of the Migration Studies Project, Departments of Applied Linguistics and English, Pennsylvania State University, USA. Having a BA with a major in English from the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, and a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, Professor Canagarajah's personal history and lived experiences
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Using Multimodal Public Service Announcement Video Projects as Communicative Language Assessments RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Philip Greenblatt, Peter McDonald
Although multimodality has received vigorous attention and debate in English as a foreign language (EFL) research and classroom pedagogies, the practicality of using multimodal activities in curricula that are designed to teach language skills rather than multimodality is under researched. This paper contributes to the ongoing need for practical applications of multimodality in classroom contexts by
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Probing into Non-native Learners’ Written Accuracy: Does Feedback Type Matter? RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Karim Sadeghi, Maryam Esmaeeli
Corrective feedback (CF) has long been a hot topic in language education circles and has received extensive research attention. However, there is still controversy over the effectiveness of CF use and error correction in language classes. To address this discrepancy, the current study probed the effectiveness of different CF types in improving grammatical accuracy in writing. We recruited 74 female
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Gather.Town: A Gamification Tool to Promote Engagement and Establish Online Learning Communities for Language Learners RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Xin Zhao, Colin Derek McClure
The use of virtual learning communities has shown great potential for language education. Research suggests that video-conferencing technology can assist teachers in creating such communities for second-language teaching. Gather.Town is a gamified, video-conferencing platform that revolutionizes the traditional static video-conferencing experience for language learners. It provides users with a 2D
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Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technology for English Writing: Introducing Wordtune as a Digital Writing Assistant for EFL Writers RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2022-05-02 Xin Zhao
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have contributed significantly to the advancement of society. In recent years, AI-powered writing assistants have received increasing attention among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) communities. However, most of these digital writing tools focus on the revision and editing stages. Few digital tools are developed to help users during the writing process
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Language Teacher Education, Reading, and Curriculum Change in Southeast Asia: A Laotian Perspective RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 John Macalister, Say Phonekeo
This study was conducted to understand issues related to the current practice of English teacher education development in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic with a focus on reading. It recognizes that what pre-service teachers experience both prior to and during their teacher education are important and need to be understood if the goals of teacher education are to be achieved. Previous research
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Situating Shadowing in the Framework of Deliberate Practice: A Guide to Using 16 Techniques RELC Journal (IF 1.62) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Yo Hamada, Yuichi Suzuki
Shadowing is the act of vocalizing the speech one is listening to as simultaneously as possible. The primary function of shadowing is learners’ listening skill and pronunciation skill development. Despite the importance of second language (L2) listening skills, this pedagogical technique has not received focal attention in the field. In this paper, shadowing is situated in the framework of systematic