The teaching of Chinese as a second or foreign language: A systematic review of the literature 2005–2015

X Ma, Y Gong, X Gao, Y Xiang - Journal of Multilingual and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This paper reports the results of a review of research articles on the teaching of Chinese as
a second or foreign language published in four leading mainland Chinese journals during …

A self system perspective on young adolescents' motivation to learn English in urban and rural settings

M Lamb - Language learning, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This study examined the motivation to learn English of Indonesian junior high school pupils,
13–14 years of age, in three distinct contexts: a metropolitan city, a provincial town, and a …

Teaching Chinese as a second or foreign language to non-Chinese learners in mainland China (2014–2018)

YF Gong, XA Gao, B Lyu - Language Teaching, 2020 - cambridge.org
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 …

Characteristics, issues, and future directions in Chinese multicultural education: A review of selected research 2000–2018

Q Liu, FZ Colak, O Agirdag - Asia Pacific Education Review, 2020 - Springer
Multicultural education has aroused extensive international attention and has been
promoted by a large body of advocates due to its significance for the achievement of social …

English language education in East Asia: Some recent developments

G Hu, SL McKay - Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
This article presents an overview of the perceived importance and accelerated spread of
English language education, both formal and informal, in three East Asian countries (ie …

English language teaching curriculum in Iran: Planning and practice

MR Atai, F Mazlum - The Curriculum Journal, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The present study investigates English language teaching (ELT) curriculum planning in
Iran's Ministry of Education and its implementation by teachers. We studied programme …

A sociocultural perspective on English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) teachers' cognitions about form-focused instruction

Q Sun, LJ Zhang - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
There has been much research into teacher beliefs about teaching and learning as seen in
the general teacher education literature. In the field of language teacher education, this line …

Motivational beliefs of urban and rural students in English as a foreign language learning: The case of China

L Ma, L Xiao, J Liu - Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
With the widening urban-rural gap caused by urbanisation, the equity of urban-rural
education has become a research hotspot. This study explored the differences in …

Effect size reporting practices in applied linguistics research: A study of one major journal

R Wei, Y Hu, J Xiong - Sage Open, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Many surveys of effect size (ES) reporting practices have been conducted in social science
fields such as psychology and education, but few such studies are available in applied …

Development of syntactic complexity in Chinese university students' L2 argumentative writing

Y Li, L Nikitina, PN Riget - Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2022 - Elsevier
This study examines how syntactic complexity evolves in argumentative L2 writing by
Chinese first-year university students (N= 102). The participants were at either a low-or …