Volume 58
Motivation and Attitudes toward Learning English in an Internet-Based Informal Context: Perceptions of Iranian University Students
The present study examines how Iranian university students are motivated to learn L2 in informal contexts and whether they have integrativeness and attitudes toward the Internet-based informal context as necessary attitudinal foundations to sustain motivation.
Initiation of World Englishes into EFL Writing Classrooms in Japanese Secondary School
This paper focuses primarily on the potential for the teaching of writing which incorporates the concept of varieties of English into writing classes in Japanese secondary school. The purpose of this paper is to identify the issue of teaching writing in Japanese junior and senior high school and to discuss the possibility of initiating the concept of World Englishes (WEs) in this context.