In this article, I explore growing scholarship in various sub-fields of Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition (SLA) that explore the use of English in an increasingly globalized and multilingual world. With different, yet overlapping, conceptual frameworks to guide research, scholarship in various fields provide a growing evidence…

This study investigates the effects of online instructors' use of initiation and maintenance rapport-building strategies (RBS) on Chinese EFL learners' CALL motivation and cognitive load management. Mixed methods research was used to concurrently triangulate different strands of data on the effects of RBS on 86 randomly sampled EFL learners. The…

The purpose of this research is to examine how instructors' levels of emotional intelligence mediate the interaction between their tacit and explicit knowledge-sharing behaviors, as well as self-efficacy in academic work. Previous studies on emotional intelligence and self-efficacy are somewhat scarce in educational context; hence, this work…