Publishing in the midst of the coronavirus

Heng-Tsung Danny Huang - Publishing in the midst of the coronavirus.

Beyond the washback of the English National Exam on learning: Subsequent impact on language learning strategies of first-year English majors

Minh Huu Thanh Nguyen - The study aims to investigate washback of the English National Exam (ENE) on learning and…

English writing anxiety and preservice teacher’s written corrective feedback

Qin Xie , Junting Yuan - This study investigated the English writing anxiety experienced by preservice English as second/foreign language…

Editorial: In 2020 and beyond

Kasumi Yamazaki - Editorial: In 2020 and beyond.

The effect of mobile-assisted language learning on speaking accuracy of EFL learners

Mahnaz Moayeri , Mohammad Reza Khodareza - As a type of technology-enhanced learning tool, mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) provides a…

Engagement in PC-based, smartphone-based, and paper-based materials: Learning vocabulary through Chinese Stories

Yijen Wang - Various studies have discussed learners' attitudes and achievement in CALL and MALL (Kiernan & Aizawa, 2004; Lu,…

Impact of using blogs on summary writing skills of EFL university students

Mashael Alqahtani, Sultan Altalhab - This study examines the impact of using blogs on developing students' summary writing skills and…

Note from the editors

Sang Hwan Seong , Eva Maria Luef - Note from the editors.

Multicultural education: How are ethnic minorities labelled and educated in post-handover Hong Kong?

Fang Gao , Jan Gube - Using multicultural education as a lens, this article details the discursive formation of Hong…

Towards sustainable internationalization in post-COVID higher education: Voices from non-native English-speaking international students in Canada

Phoebe Kang - International students have been a dominant topic in Canadian government and institutional strategies in recent years (Tamtik,…

Gender-inclusivity and gender-neutrality in foreign language teaching: The case of French

Hugues Peters - This is a secondary research discussion paper on the issue of non-conforming gender-inclusivity or neutrality in foreign…

Intelligibility of L2 speech in ELF

Paul Lochland - This paper investigates the phonology of L2 speech and its impact on intelligibility in English as a…

Formulation processes of monolingual, bilingual, and biliterate writers: Effects of biliteracy

Elaine Ng - By looking beyond their written products into what they do as they write, this mixed methods study…

Teaching semantic considerations of ablative and locative cases in Turkish-to-English translated texts

Cuneyt Demir - Translation aims to transmit the original tone of the source text both syntactically and semantically accurate without…

In pursuit of intercultural competence: Exploring self-awareness of EFL pupils in a lower-secondary school in Norway

Anastasia Khanukaeva - This paper focuses on self-awareness as an integral component of intercultural competence (IC) in the English as…

Engagement beyond a tour guide approach: Korean and US elementary school students’ intercultural telecollaboration

Soojin Kim - This paper reports findings from a case study of intercultural telecollaboration between elementary school students in South…

Storyboarding-based collaborative narratives on Google Docs: Fostering EFL learners’ writing fluency, syntactic complexity, and overall performance

Marwa Hafour , Al-Shaimaa M. Al-Rashidy - This study examined the impact of storyboarding- based collaborative narrative writing using Google…

The effects of digital scaffolding on adolescent English reading in Japan: An experimental study on visual-syntactic text formatting

Sachiko Ozaki , Isao Ueda - This experimental study examined how VSTF (Visual-Syntactic Text Formatting)-based text benefits reading speed, reading…

Virtual reality in education: The promise, progress, and challenge

Ryan Lege , Euan Bonner - Virtual Reality (VR) has made significant inroads into both the consumer and professional sectors.

Officer reports

JALT CALL SIG - Officer reports.