This study traced changes in Chinese college English teachers' professional identities as a
result of participating in international professional development programs and examined …

In self-determination theory (SDT), the role of positive emotion in the motivational process is
undertheorized. Most previous research considered emotion as an outcome variable, rather …

There are 299 living languages in China (Ethnologue, 2017) and approximately 2000
different mutually unintelligible languages and dialects spoken in China at county and …

School children in China's remote Northwestern region are generally from poor farming
villages where English language education presents significant challenges, particularly …

This study explores the process of perspective shifting among female English language
learners who participated in an English project-based learning programme in rural Japan. In …

The global use of English in diverse cultural contexts calls into question the dominant
representations of Anglo-American culture in English language textbooks. To contribute to …

Traditionally, English language learning consists of two key components: teaching
approaches and teachers themselves. These two factors are considered significant and they …

Inspired by the author's personal experience of learning English in rural China, this study
explores the complexity of beyond-classroom learning environments where rural Chinese …

This study adopts narrative inquiry to report five English teachers' online teaching
experiences in a rural primary school in China during the COVID-19 pandemic. From a …

Background and Purpose–Based on English teaching situation and reform requirement, the
purpose of this paper is to explore how Deliberate Practice applies to Oral English learning …