12 articles in this issue
Luo Shaoqian,YI Baoshu10.17509/ijal.v2i2.161 Abstract views: 1665 PDF downloads: 1116
Abstract: With the reform of English education in China since 2001, a communicative and task-based language teaching has emerged into Chinese English classroom. To understand task-based language teaching (TBLT) practice in China, a synthesis study was con... see more
Rie Adachi10.17509/ijal.v2i2.162 Abstract views: 382 PDF downloads: 373
Abstract: This study focuses on Japanese pupils’ motivation with other attitudinal attitudes about learning English. The writer surveyed the 5th and 6th grade pupils’ motivation and its effect factors at an elementary school in Japan at the end of the sch... see more
Joseph Foley10.17509/ijal.v2i2.163 Abstract views: 669 PDF downloads: 578
Abstract: This research investigated the development of language choices in the Academic writing of students at an English medium university in Thailand. The first part involved looking at the writing in the first semester of their English program at the ... see more
David Dirkwen Wei10.17509/ijal.v2i2.164 Abstract views: 989 PDF downloads: 513
Abstract: The implementation of English-only policy in the English classes at Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages in Taiwan has continued for nearly 40 years. Its advantages and disadvantages have also been debated and challenged because of the rising de... see more
Joseph Ernest Mambu10.17509/ijal.v2i2.165 Abstract views: 596 PDF downloads: 409
Abstract: This paper investigates narrative structures of the same story told three times by an advanced male EFL (i.e., English as a foreign language) learner. By narrative structures in this paper, I mean the sequence of narrative, especially in the lig... see more
Ying Tang10.17509/ijal.v2i2.166 Abstract views: 609 PDF downloads: 614
Abstract: Nowadays in China, high school assessment is based solely on academic examination scores, which take the place of well-rounded assessments that should be given to students. The present assessment ignores the differences among individuals and goe... see more
Raden Intansari10.17509/ijal.v2i2.167 Abstract views: 2341 PDF downloads: 1374
Abstract: This study is a part of a bigger study investigating teachers’ personal theories (beliefs) regarding English teaching and learning. Involving forty-two English teachers of fifteen Junior High Schools in the city of Sukabumi, West Java, this cro... see more
Eri Kurniawan10.17509/ijal.v2i2.168 Abstract views: 780 PDF downloads: 635
Abstract: This paper investigates the acquisition of English multiple interrogatives suchas Who did what? by advanced learners of English whose first language is Indonesian. Theunderlying functional feature of multiple interrogatives is multiple focus fea... see more
Riesky Riesky10.17509/ijal.v2i2.169 Abstract views: 778 PDF downloads: 732
Abstract: In the process of becoming professional, every single teacher will normallygo through a series of experiences that are cognitively, physically, and emotionallychallenging. One of the first steps they have to go through is a form of first teachin... see more
Roma Ulinnuha10.17509/ijal.v2i2.170 Abstract views: 2906 PDF downloads: 2399
Abstract: Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) serves as one of the tools to analyzethe linguistic and the social. This article aims at investigating the relevance of ideasamongst CDA figures—Fairclough, Van Dijk, Wodak, and Kristeva—to both socialand litera... see more
Lulu Laela Amalia,Ernie Imperiani10.17509/ijal.v2i2.171 Abstract views: 1195 PDF downloads: 928
Abstract: This paper investigates how mentor coaching, which is intended to prepare preserviceteachers of English as a Foreign Language in facing their teaching practices, help themdesign lesson plans. A lesson plan, as Farrell (2002) stated, is a collect... see more
Dian Muniroh10.17509/ijal.v2i2.172 Abstract views: 394 PDF downloads: 503
Abstract: The study is aimed at investigating strategies of follow-up responses torefusals performed by Indonesians learning English as a foreign language. Havingknown that his/her desire or want is refused by his/her hearer, a speaker may providea follow... see more