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Volume 24 Issue 6 November 2020

Volume 24 Issue 6 November 2020

| October 31, 2020

Welcome to the November issue of Asian EFL Journal in 2020, which contains 4 articles and 2 book reviews written by teachers of English as a Foreign Language and researchers in the field. The book reviews were focused on East Asian perspectives on silence in English language education and the marginalized status of minority languages in educational projects.

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Volume 24 Issue 5 September 2020

Volume 24 Issue 5 September 2020

| August 30, 2020
  1. Linh T. Thao Nguyen and Yuah V. Chon
    Ideologies of English and English Teaching in Vietnamese Private Language Institutions’ Facebook Adverts
  2. Benedict C. Totanes and Arceli M. Amarles
    Critical Scaffolding Method: A Proposed Instructional Strategy on Critical Literacy in Reading English Literary Texts
  3. Simon Park and Mengjiao Wu
    Instagram as a Learning and Motivational Tool for Freshmen English Classes at a Private Japanese University

Book Reviews

  1. Martin Andrew
    Book Review: Globalisation and its Effects on Team-teaching, by Naoki Fujimoto-Adamson. Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 2020. pp viii + 268.
  2. Thiri Soe
    Book Revıew: Quantitative Research Methods for Linguists: A Questions and Answers Approach for Students, by Dave Pollard, Garry Plappert, Gertrud Reershemius, Sarah Hayes, Tim Grant, and Urszula Clark. Routledge, New York, 2017, Pp. xi +152.

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Volume 24 Issue 4 July 2020

Volume 24 Issue 4 July 2020

| July 7, 2020

Foreword by Dr. Jun (Scott) Chen Hsieh

  1. Aunurrahman, Fuad Abdul Hamied, & Emi Emilia
    Teaching critical thinking through academic writing to tertiary EFL Students in Pontianak Indonesia: An utilization of a genre-based approach
  2. Sami Al-Mubireek
    An Attitude/Motivation Test Battery (AMTB) of English language learning among students across genders, tracks and proficiency levels at a leading Saudi university
  3. Waliyadin & Eleni Petraki
    Teaching compliments and compliment responses: An evaluation of Indonesian English Language Teaching (ELT) textbooks
  4. Noraini Zulkepli, Noor Alhusna Madzlan, Hema Vanita Kesevan, &
    Siti Nor Amalina Ahmad Tajuddin
    L2 motivational self system as predictors of in-class and out-of-class willingness to communicate in a multicultural context
  5. Leah Gustilo, Maria Isabel Vergel, & Aillen Valle
    Digital writing and English teachers’ attitudes towards its non-standard conventions
  6. Hossein Vafadar & Thomas Chow Voon Foo
    The effects of communication strategies instruction on Iranian intermediate EFL learners’ willingness to communicate

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Volume 24 Issue 3 May 2020

Volume 24 Issue 3 May 2020

| April 6, 2020

Main Articles

  1. Amer Ahmed and Iryna Lenchuk
    Making Sense of Task-Based Language Teaching in the Omani EFL Context
  2. Marzieh Bagherkazemi
    Individual/Collaborative Output vs. Input Enhancement and Metapragmatic Awareness Raising: Impacts on Immediate and Delayed Speech Act Production
  3. Chieh-Hsiang Chuang
    Causes of English Majors’ EFL Anxiety: Tertiary Teachers’ Perceptions 
  4. Hyang-Il Kim and Hyekyeng Kim
    The Mediating Effects of Self-Efficacy on Learners’ Reading Strategy Use and Reading Proficiency
  5. Mahmood Safari & Leila Niknasab
    Interlanguage Pragmatic Development: Input-providing or Output-prompting Tasks?
  6. Yimin Zhang & Issra Pramoolsook
    Beyond the Argument: Generic Diversity in Instruction-based Writing by Chinese EFL Undergraduate Students

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Volume 24 Issue 2 March 2020

Volume 24 Issue 2 March 2020

| February 22, 2020

Main Articles

  1. George Skuse
    The Talk Skills Project: Improving Dialogic Interaction in the Korean Adult Foreign Language Classroom
  2. Nguyen Van Loi
    Vietnamese EFL Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices of Alternative Assessment in Teaching English at Secondary School
  3. Ngan Nguyen and Francis Godwyll
    Why we are not where we want to be: Dilemmas of English language teachers and learners in Vietnam
  4. Seth Pederson
    Target Language Use and Support for Comprehension by Japanese Primary Teachers in English Classes: A Quantitative Perspective
  5. Chalida Janenoppakarn and Saneh Thongrin
    Enhancing Medical and Health Science Students’ Writing Development Through a Modified Process-Genre Approach
  6. Richard Janosy and Michael Thomas
    Self-Taught Language Learners in China and Their Learning Strategies: A Multiple, Instrumental Case Study of Approaches in Contextual Situations

Book Reviews

  1. Yangmen Liu
    Learner Corpora and Language Teaching
  2. Derek Bell
    Language Assessment: Principles and Classroom Practices (Third Edition)

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Volume 24 Issue 1 January 2020

Volume 24 Issue 1 January 2020

| January 1, 2020

Foreword by Copy Editor

Main Articles

  1. Reza Taghizadeh
    Pragmatic Competence in the Target Language: A Study of Iranian Learners of English 
  2. Miguel Lorenzo B. Garcia
    Formal Features of Filipino ESL Research Papers
  3. Lan Phuong Le, Margaret Kettle and Hitendra Pillay
    Using Corpus Analysis in a Needs Analysis of Key English Vocabulary for Petroleum Engineers in Vietnam
  4. Dukhayel Aldukhayel
    Enhancing L2 Listeners’ Lexical Segmentation through Partial Dictation: A Bottom-Up Approach
  5. Han-Yi Lin
    The Impact of Global English: Perceptions of English Promotion, English Education and the ELT Industry in Taiwan
  6. Alexander Nanni and Kerry Pusey
    Leveraging Students’ Digital Literacy through Project-Based Learning

Book Reviews

  1. Waheeb S. Albiladi
    Exploring English language teaching: Language in action (2nd ed.)
  2. Xiaolei Ruan
    Agency at Work: An Agentic Perspective on Professional Learning and Development

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