8 articles in this issue
Flora Debora Floris
Péter Medgyes, CBE, is Professor Emeritus of Applied Linguistics and Language Pedagogy. During his career he was a schoolteacher, teacher trainer, vice rector, vice president of IATEFL, deputy state secretary and ambassador of Hungary. He was a plenary sp... see more
Safia Mujtaba Alsied
This article attempts to explore the use of first language (Arabic) in the Libyan EFL classrooms as well as teachers' and students' attitudes towards using it. To this end, 5 Libyan EFL teachers and 143 Libyan EFL undergraduate students from the English d... see more
Fitriah Fitriah
This study investigates teachers’ views on the role of technology in building their creativity during teaching practices within the context of Indonesian higher education. An exploratory mixed methods design was employed by interviewing 20 EFL teachers ab... see more
Sahiruddin Sahiruddin
Sentence-level grammar skills are of the important foundations in the mastery of reading skills in second language (L2). Previous studies showed inconclusive findings about the effect of grammar knowledge on L2 reading. This study examines the relationshi... see more
Adaninggar Septi Subekti
Despite the importance of teachers’ roles in helping learners overcome their foreign language anxiety (FLA), a number of studies found that there were some mismatches between learners’ views and those of the teachers in regard with learners’ FLA. These mi... see more
I. G. A. Lokita Purnamika Utami,Sarah Prestridge
Professional Development (PD) and Professional Learning (PL) are established terms which are used interchangeably but theoretically have notable differences. The former is formally and externally designed while the latter is more informal and self-directe... see more
Thao Vu,Yusnita Febrianti
The prominent role of visual resources in language classrooms has long been advocated, as many argued that images could go beyond providing students with a visual background of the context or arousing motivation (Unsworth & Ngo, 2014). This article explor... see more
Alberth Alberth,Mursalim Mursalim,Siam Siam,I Ketut Suardika,La Ino
It is generally accepted that effective teacher professional development is critical to effective educational improvements and reforms of any educational institution. However, a conventional form of teacher professional development is constrained by time ... see more