A self system perspective on young adolescents' motivation to learn English in urban and rural settings

M Lamb - Language learning, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This study examined the motivation to learn English of Indonesian junior high school pupils,
13–14 years of age, in three distinct contexts: a metropolitan city, a provincial town, and a …

Willingness to communicate in English: A model in the Chinese EFL classroom context

JE Peng, L Woodrow - Language learning, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
This study involves a large‐scale investigation of willingness to communicate (WTC) in
Chinese English‐as‐a‐foreign‐language (EFL) classrooms. A hypothesized model …

[图书][B] Materials and methods in ELT: A teacher's guide

J McDonough, C Shaw, H Masuhara - 2013 - books.google.com
Featuring extensive updates and revisions, the 3rd edition of Materials and Methods in ELT
offers a comprehensive and useful introduction to the principles and practice of teaching …

EFFECTS OF FORM-FOCUSED PRACTICE AND FEEDBACK ON CHINESE EFL LEARNERS'ACQUISITION OF REGULAR AND IRREGULAR PAST TENSE FORMS

Y Yang, R Lyster - Studies in second language acquisition, 2010 - cambridge.org
Conducted in English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) classrooms at the university level in
China, this quasi-experimental study compared the effects of three different corrective …

EFL learners' perceptions and preferences of written corrective feedback: a case study of university students from Mainland China

S Chen, H Nassaji, Q Liu - Asian-Pacific journal of second and foreign …, 2016 - Springer
Although a growing body of research has examined the effectiveness of written corrective
feedback (WCF) for improving L2 learners' grammatical accuracy, fewer studies have …

English language education in China: Policies, progress, and problems

G Hu - Language policy, 2005 - Springer
Abstract English language education has been accorded much importance in the People's
Republic of China in the last quarter century. This paper presents an overview of basic …

[图书][B] Strategic language learning: The roles of agency and context

XA Gao - 2010 - books.google.com
This monograph reports on a longitudinal inquiry into mainland Chinese undergraduates'
language learning experiences in an English medium university in a multilingual setting with …

A dynamic metacognitive systems account of Chinese university students' knowledge about EFL reading

LJ Zhang - Tesol Quarterly, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Metacognition, conceptualized as a set of dynamic systems, has been recognized as an
important area of academic and pedagogical inquiry in applied linguistics from both …

Teaching oral English in higher education: Challenges to EFL teachers

Z Chen, C Goh - Teaching in higher education, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
This paper investigates difficulties that teachers encounter in teaching oral English in higher
education in the English as a foreign language (EFL) context. Open-ended question surveys …

Corrective feedback preferences and learner repair among advanced ESL students

EJE Lee - System, 2013 - Elsevier
The present study investigates the patterns of corrective feedback and learner repair present
in advanced-level adult ESL classrooms, and examines both teacher and student …