Journal Archives
Apart from being an established researcher, Jock Wong has been known to me as a diligent, knowledgeable, responsible, and reflective teacher. I can feel he has a passion for teaching. Thus I was not surprised when he pro…
The idea of care was, until recently, new to me too. For a long time, as a university writing teacher, I was fixated on how to methodologically develop writing skills in my students and unleash their potential to make th…
This article makes the argument that institutions of higher education are responsible for showing care to faculty and students and must offer support for well-being within the policies and practices of the institution. T…
In Japan there has recently been a national movement to include students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) in mainstream education. In recent years, Japanese universities have seen a rise in SEN student numbers. As En…
COVID-19 evidenced the need for emotional support and care by a generation of students widely exposed to information and communication technologies. This study aimed to explore professors' practices of caring for student…
Recently, in light of the global pandemic and calls for a shift in teaching with care (e.g. Bovill, 2020; Gravett, 2021), research has focused on the kinds of classroom discourse that create a supportive environment and…
This reflective paper draws on my experience in caring for students as a lecturer in the English Language (EL) department of the National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. My ca…
Welcome to the International Journal of TESOL Studies (IJTS) special column for the 2022 Global English Education China Assembly (henceforth “the Assembly”). This is the first of the three special columns of the 2022 Ass…
The study explored the relationship between foreign language anxiety, motivation and intercultural communication competence of Chinese university students in top-notch programs. 223 undergraduate students from a leading…
Plagiarism is becoming more widespread at Canadian universities, but what are English-as-asecond-language (ESL) student perspectives on their challenges to avoid plagiarism and university strategies to support students?…
Most learners of a second or foreign language fall short of necessary academic vocabulary, and the problem has become increasingly evident in the context of technical fields such as mechanical engineering. This paper rep…
This article presents an interview with Professor Wang, a renowned researcher in statistics and language education. He shares his research journey, from choosing English as his major to becoming passionate about statisti…
