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Volume 25 Issue 3 May 2021

Volume 25 Issue 3 May 2021

| May 3, 2021

Welcome to the May 2021 edition of the Asian EFL Journal. This edition has three notable articles and a book review that are of interest to educators and researchers in English as a foreign language.

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Volume 25 Issue 2 March 2021

Volume 25 Issue 2 March 2021

| March 3, 2021

Welcome to Asian EFL Journal’s March 2021 issue! We are pleased to present three research articles and two book reviews that are sure to be of interest to the Asian EFL Community. Keeping with the tradition and scope of the journal, the contents of this issue are sure to be of interest to both educators and researchers.

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Volume 25 Issue 1 January 2021

Volume 25 Issue 1 January 2021

| January 1, 2021

Welcome to the January edition of the Asian EFL Journal in 2021. This inspiring edition contains six articles and two book reviews of quality.

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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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Volume 23 Issue 6.3 November 2019

Volume 23 Issue 6.3 November 2019

| November 24, 2019

Main Articles

  1. Ramli, Endry Boeriswati and Emzir
    The Effect of Metaphorming Teaching Method on Field-Independent/Dependent Learners in Writing Essay
  2. Ikhfi Imaniah, Ilza Mayuni and Ninuk Lustyantie
    The Influence of Self Esteem and Reading Habits on Student’s English Essay Writing
  3. Irawinne Rizky Wahyu Kusuma, Rosvita Flaviana Osin and I Made Arry Anggabawa
    Impact of Tourism Industry- driven Media Communication in Students’ Speaking Ability
  4. Nor Yazi Khamis
    A New Competency-based Framework for English for Specific Engineering Purposes (ESEP) Practitioners
  5. Azwin Arif Abdul Rahim
    Development of Mobile Learning Framework for ESAP for Technical and Engineering Context
  6. Afif Rofii, Fathiaty Murtadho and Aceng Rahmat
    The Effectiveness of Contextual-Based Academic Writing Learning Model
  7. Kammer Tuahman Sipayung and Tagor Pangaribuan
    Developing Teaching Materials on English for Specific Purpose on Tourism Program of HKBP Grade Eleven
  8. Rafi’ah Nur, Ammang Latifa and Aqilah Luthfiah Busman
    Utilizing the Instagram Videos to Enhance the Students’ Language Acquisition on Writing Composition
  9. Elfiondri, Nova Rina, Zaitul, Faisal Mustafa, Mariati and Irma
    English and Indigenous Mentawai Tradition: The Case of Using English Phatic Communion Spoken by Ojek Drivers in Siberut Mentawai, Indonesia
  10. Lamhot Naibaho
    The Effectiveness of Independent Learning Method on Students’ Speaking Achievement at Christian University of Indonesia Jakarta
  11. Jennifer Yphantides
    Women in TESOL Leadership Roles in Japanese Higher Education
  12. Masruddin
    The Efficacy of Using Spelling Bee Game in Teaching Vocabulary to Indonesian English as Foreign Language (EFL) Students
  13. Maulina, Nurdin Noni and Muhammad Basri
    WhatsApp Audio and Video Chat-Based in Stimulating Students’ Self-Confidence and Motivation to Speak English

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