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Kazuya Saito – Language Teaching, 2023
In this paper, I first provide a brief review of how scholars have conceptualized, tested, and elaborated aptitude frameworks relevant to second language (L2) speech learning. Subsequently, I introduce an emerging paradigm that assigns a fundamental role to domain-general auditory processing (i.e., having a good ear) in L1 speech acquisition and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Aptitude
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Gong, Yang; Gao, Xuesong; Lyu, Boning – Language Teaching, 2020
This review involved 60 articles chosen from 336 empirical studies identified in five leading journals on the learning and teaching of Chinese as a second or foreign language in mainland China during the period 2014-2018. The selected studies document Chinese researchers' efforts to improve the teaching and learning of the Chinese language in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Chinese
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Lei, Lei; Qin, Jie – Language Teaching, 2022
This article reviews selected research on foreign language teaching and learning published in local, high-impact journals in China over the past ten years (2012-2021). A bibliometric analysis was conducted to elicit the most frequently researched topics in the field, which were grouped into four categories, that is, language learning and use,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods
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Li, Yingying; Han, Ye – Language Teaching, 2021
In her position article, Lee (2019) compellingly argues for focused written corrective feedback (FWCF) and offers clear guidelines for teachers to shift their feedback approach. As English language teaching practitioners in Chinese universities, we share Lee's view against any unthinking adherence to comprehensive written corrective feedback…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Guidelines, Foreign Countries
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Kirkpatrick, Andy; Liddicoat, Anthony J. – Language Teaching, 2017
East and Southeast Asia represents a linguistically and culturally diverse region. For example, more than 700 languages are spoken in Indonesia alone. It is against this backdrop of diversity that the ten countries that comprise Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) have recently signed the ASEAN Charter which, while calling for respect…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Second Language Learning
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Min, Shangchao; He, Lianzhen; Zhang, Jie – Language Teaching, 2020
This article reviews a selected sample of 70 empirical studies in journal articles and doctoral dissertations on language assessment in China between 2011 and 2018. Following a brief introduction to the history and current state of language assessment in China, the article presents a critical review of language assessment research on six themes…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Journal Articles
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Wen, Qiufang – Language Teaching, 2018
The production-oriented approach (POA) has been developed over ten years to overcome the weaknesses in English instruction in tertiary education in Mainland China. The POA tries to integrate the strengths of Western instructional approaches with Chinese contextual features and consists of three components: (a) teaching principles; (b) teaching…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Goh, Christine C. M. – Language Teaching, 2017
This article is a personal view of the application of results from three areas of research that I believe are relevant to developing second language speaking in the classroom: task repetition, pre-task planning and communication strategies. I will discuss these three areas in terms of level of research application--where research is not applied…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Second Language Learning, Communication Strategies, Oral Language
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Gao, Xuesong; Liao, Yanyi; Li, Yuxia – Language Teaching, 2014
In this review, we highlight 60 articles from 1,120 empirical studies in leading language learning and teaching journals published on the Chinese mainland during the years 2008-2011. In preparing the review, we have found Chinese researchers addressing a wide range of topics including language learners' cognitive processes, their language…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries