6 articles in this issue
Sri Puji Astuti
This multiple case study investigated how teachers implemented motivational teaching strategies and the impact of these strategies on students’ motivation in an Indonesian high school context. The participants were four teachers and four groups of their s... see more
Lottie L. Baker
The spread of globalization means an accompanying growth in the importance of English as a lingua franca. Efforts to increase English proficiency are especially pronounced in Southeast Asia with the opening of the ASEAN Economic Community in 2015. A commo... see more
Feng-Ru Chang
Numerous studies have been conducted to explore issues surrounding non-native speakers (NNS) English teachers and native speaker (NS) teachers which concern, among others, the comparison between the two, the self-perceptions of NNS English teachers and th... see more
Yi-Ching Pan
There has been an increased level of attention devoted to the consequences of test use in recent years; however, the majority of washback studies focused on teaching. In fact, little research has addressed learners’ perspectives to analyze possible determ... see more
Rojab Siti Rodliyah
This study investigates how social media, in this case Facebook, can be incorporated in ELT through e-dialogue journal writing shared in a Facebook closed group. Fifteen EFL students participated in this case study. They were second, third, and fourth yea... see more
Ribut Wahyudi
This article discusses the second-language literacy practice of an ESL student in Australia. It firstly explores the literacy practices (reading and writing) exercised both in China (the subject’s home country) and in Sydney, Australia, where the subject ... see more