Category: ACLL2017
A Comparative Corpus Study on the Use of Academic Hedges and Boosters in Applied Linguistics
Hedges and boosters are two types of linguistically important strategies employed in academic writing. While hedges and boosters have been …
Analyses of Non-Native Preservice English Teacher Verbal Interactions on COLT Part B Scheme
This exploratory case study aimed to identify the characteristics of instruction by non-native preservice English teachers seeking to obtain an …
Blended Learning for In-service Teachers’ Professional Development: Lessons from the Experience of a Singaporean Chinese Language Teacher Educator
Traditional face-to-face workshop is a common avenue for the professional development (PD) of in-service teachers. Chinese Language (CL) teachers in …
Changing Writing Classrooms through Group Dynamics
Literature Circles in an EFL writing classroom is an under-explored area where learners, through collaborative learning, are able to enhance …
Cross Cultural Representation in Pakistani’s EFL Textbooks
The spread of English language as an international language has increased the numbers of its non-native speakers more than its …
Dealing with Unexpected Experiences: Transformative Learning of Japanese Pre-Service Teachers During the Teaching Practicum
In the current Teaching Licensing program accredited by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, students who plan to …
English as the World’s Lingua Franca and Task-based Strategic Competence
A common theme in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) research is to focus on pragmatics and accommodation with regards …
Expressing Jamaican Culture in the Foreign Language Classroom
We will present lessons learned and techniques developed over a period of twelve years teaching Japanese to West Indian university …
Factors Impacting on Teacher Cognition and Teachers’ Approaches to Language Teaching in Japanese High Schools
An investigation of cognitive factors that impact implementation of Communicative Approaches to Language Teaching, CALT, by public high school teachers …
Expressing Locality in Learning English: A Study of English Textbooks for Junior High School Year VII-IX in Indonesia Context
This paper intends to investigate the transfer of English language to Indonesian students of junior high school in a multicultural …
Developing Global Leadership Skills with Model United Nations (MUN)
This paper summarizes the symposium contributions as they were presented at the Asian Conference on Language Learning held in Kobe:…
I Am Afraid of Learning English: The Interplay between Anxiety and Learning Experience on Indonesian Senior High School Students Academic Performances
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of learning experience and anxiety on senior high school students’ …
Investigating ‘Interest’ Development of Indonesian Students in an MA TEFL Programme in Learning English as an L2
This study contributes to the understanding of interest development in second language learning. It describes the conditions which trigger students’ …
Japan Away from Japan: The Tehran Supplementary Japanese School
How can my multi-racial children maintain and even improve their competency in their heritage languages? This is a common struggle …
Learning Growth and Attitude of Students Exposed to Prolonged Non-Contractual English Intervention Program
This study is quasi-experimental in nature which utilized an intervention program sponsored by the US Embassy through the English Access …
Motivational Changes and Their Effects on Achievement: Japanese High School English Learners
This longitudinal study investigates (a) changes in Japanese high school English learners’ motivation over the 3 years of high school, …
Promoting Cross-Cultural Communication and Student Reflection Through Speaking Logs
Many Japanese students enter university having had little to no interaction with native or foreign speakers of English outside of …
Scaffolding L2 Readers: How Can We Grow Them Into Autonomous Life-Long Learners?
A critical component of L2 reading ability is reading fluency. One natural approach to L2 fluency development is to approximate …
Special Filipino Curriculum (SFC): A Technology Oriented Curriculum for Foreign Language Students
The technology-oriented curriculum aims to develop a program for foreign language speaking students of Filipino. Its objective is to look …
Syntactic Variety and Writing Quality: An Investigation on EFL Students’ Argumentative Writing
The variety of syntactic structure of sentences has regarded as an important indicator of sentence fluency and writing proficiency. However, …
Teachers’ Attitude toward Journal Writing
Teachers have many tasks that they should do. So, they must be professional in teaching. One of the ways to …
Teachers’ View on the Use of Portfolio Assessment in Secondary Schools In Indonesia
Having been undergoing several changes in a decade, the concept of students’ evaluation system in Indonesia has significantly transformed. In …
Teaching How to Think and How to Write: Realities and Suggestions on Writing Instruction in English Education in Japan
The current Course of Study of Japan manifests that an objective of “English Expression” is to evaluate facts and opinions …
Teaching Writing Through Clustering Technique
Teaching writing is considered as the most difficult skill. However, one of the objectives of teaching English in secondary school …
The Challenges of Teacher-Mediated vs Computer-Mediated ESL Instruction
Technology is changing at an unprecedented rate, and without the proper machinery in place, one stands the risk of being …
The Implementation of Teacher’s Motivational Strategy in EFL Classrooms
This study aims at describing how EFL (model) teachers in Junior High school, Senior High School, and Vocational High School …