Journal Archives
It is our great honour to be writing the introduction to this issue of the International Journal of TESOL Studies as the guest editors. This is an extra-large volume, reflecting some of the research managed despite one o…
Over the past 70 years, and in the past 40 years in particular, there has been tremendous growth in foreign-language teaching and research in China. While this growth has taken the teaching and associated research into a…
This is a personal-professional reflection on 20 years of doing Action Research (AR), based on which AR is positioned as being at three different interfaces: the personal-professional; the theory-practice; and the quanti…
This study examines the learning and related impact on classroom teaching of six EFL high school teachers' participation in collective lesson planning discussions (CLPDs) organised by a teaching research officer. Data we…
Numerous English training programs have sprung up in China for young learners aged between 5 and 12 as education technology companies and training schools have seen the huge commercial potential in children-oriented Engl…
In the field of computer-mediated communication (CMC), while many studies have focused on utilising various CMC-based tools (e.g. email, video conferencing and virtual worlds) to promote second language (L2) learning, sc…
This study aims to apply collaborative writing to the teaching practice of continuation tasks. More specifically, it attempts to explore: 1) The differences between texts produced by pairs and those finished by individua…
As mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) has become increasingly popular among learners of English, their motivation in using mobile technologies to learn the language has attracted the attention of researchers. This…
Assessment of pronunciation has long been established as an integral component of speaking assessment, usually combined with other dimensions such as fluency, lexico-grammatical resources and topic development to generat…
The purpose of this paper is to share options for language instruction and present opportunities for language learning based on what the literature says about what makes an effective learning task. The paper focuses spec…
The field of TESOL has seen paradigmatic shifts related to how language and language proficiency are conceptualized as well as how we approach teaching English as an additional language (EAL). Embedding the teaching of E…
Distance learning offers an affordable and convenient way to study and improve one’s knowledge in one’s spare time. This trend has been accelerated by information and communication technologies that have pushed to new bo…
