This paper discusses issues related to language beliefs held by teachers and students of English in China; namely, the status of English, the learners' expectations of English and the focus of English teaching and learning in China. These beliefs are examined in the context of globalization and China's ever-deepening integration into the global…

In recent years, the number of Spanish-speaking Latinos in Britain and London has grown considerably. Estimates from different sources put the population in London as high as 300,000. Unfortunately, this growing ethnolinguistic group is an underresearched minority, and information of any kind is hard to come by. In this article, my aim is to…

Problematizes the use of the interview for research on second language acquisition and second language teaching. (Author/VWL)

Suggests that in applied linguistics there has been a collective ignorance of the social constraints operating on exchanges between research interviews and informant interviewees. The article discusses literature from sociology and social psychology that has dealt with this aspect of research interviews. (Author/CK)

Introduces the term "meta-pedagogical" and presents two case studies of English-as-a-foreign-language learners describing and evaluating their lessons, making the point that in the course of face-to-face interviews carried out over a 10-week period, these two individuals manifested a great deal of knowledge about teaching practice. (Author/VWL)

Contrasts student evaluation of a course by the conventional method of final evaluation form with a less conventional approach in which the learner is interviewed on a number of occasions throughout the course. Reveals weaknesses with the end-of-course evaluation form. (Author/VWL)

Describes the author's personal version of the action research cycle, focusing on two research experiences to point out what can be learned from research involving listening to language learners. Suggests that one can learn in two different and equally important ways; one can learn about the research question studied and about how to improve the…