Reflections on English Language Teaching
Volume 1
"Bo Cai Zhong Chang" - A Slogan for Effective ELT Methodology for College English Education
Feng Anwei
"You Dig Tree Tree to NUS": Understanding Singapore English from the Perspectives of International Students
Carissa Young
Strategy Training for English Language Learners from PRC
Susan Tan
Language Learning Strategies and English Language Proficiency: An Investigation of Chinese ESL Students at NUS
Zhang Mingyuan
Pronunciation Problems of PRC Students
Laina Ho
Empirical Errors in PRC Students' English Compositions
Tan Cheng Lim
Reflections of ESL and EFL Students Through Email
Happy Gob & Tan Kim Luan
Learner Diaries as a Tool to Heighten Chinese Students' Metacognitive Awareness of English Learning
Carissa Young & Fong Yoke Sim
Volume 2
Exploring Thematic Analysis as a Possible Self-Revision Method for ESL/EFL Writers
Deng Xudong
Exploring the Writer's Opinion in Two Undergraduates' Written Reports
Wu Siew Mei
Explicit Strategy Training for Teaching Reading: Some Classroom Findings
Chitra Varaprasad
A Two-way Mirror: Reflections of Learners and Teachers on Language Skills for Science Undergraduates
Fong Yoke Sim, Ho Poh Wai, & Judith Lindley
PRC Students' Language Learning Experiences
Lee Kooi Cheng & Janet Chan
Intercultural Competency for TESOL Professionals
Feng Anwei
Assessing the Response of Chinese Students to Self and Peer Evaluation of Oral Presentation Skills
Laina Ho
INTERACTIVE E-TEXTS
June Ngoh
Volume 3
Using ICT to Enhance Traditional Classroom Instruction for Computer Science Undergraduates
Lim Hwee Ling
Portfolios and Small Group Learning: Motivating Students in a Writing Class
Susan Lopez-Nerney & Carol A. Binder
Collocation Awareness in the Writing Process
Yang Ying & Ann Hendricks
Assessing Critical Thinking: Putting Discourse to the Test
Peggy Chan
Learning by Working Together: Analysing Student Responses to Collaboration in Small Teams
Rose Lu & Ulrike Murfett
Exploring EFL Learners' Response to One-to-one Tutoring Feedback
Laina Ho
To Each His Own
Chew Moh Leen
Volume 4
Language learning in China: The experience of four learners
Agnes Lam
The University of Hong Kong
The length approach to ELT
Wang Chuming
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
A case for using literature to teach business English
Lim Meng Choo
National University of Singapore
Using case-based learning to enhance awareness of communication principles: An exploratory study
Loong Yvonne Chi-Wan and Susan Lopez-Nerney
National University of Singapore
Peer evaluation in a Filipino L2 speech class: “Speaking the unspeakable?”
Mildred A. Rojo-Laurilla
De La Salle University-Manila, Philippines
The grammar we teach
James Mannes Bourke
University of Brunei
Using peer evaluation to promote independent learning in report writing
Norhayati Mohd Ismail, Ho Poh Wai, and T. Ruanni F. Tupas
National University of Singapore
Volume 5 No 1
Assessing EFL learners’ interlanguage pragmatic knowledge: Implications for testers and teachers
Liu Jianda
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
Sources of difficulties in cross-cultural communication and ELT: The case of the long-distance “but” in Chinese discourse
Hao Sun
Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne
Innovative Modes of Continual Assessment: Perspectives of undergraduate students
Tay-Koay Siew Luan
National Institute of Education, Singapore
June Ngoh
National University of Singapore
Appropriate formative assessment in a collectionist culture
Paul Stables
Hong Kong Shue Yan College
University language advising: Is it useful?
Hayo Reinders
University of Auckland
Methods and materials for motivation and learner autonomy
Phyllis Wachob
The American University in Cairo
The operation of value in undergraduate English language essays
Wu Siew Mei
National University of Singapore
Developing email exchange projects in the university classroom: Recommendations for successful implementation
Marlen Elliot Harrison
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Discussion forum as a secondary coach
Chien-Ching Lee
Nanyang Technological University
Volume 5 No 2
The Naturalized Role-play: An innovative methodology in cross-cultural and interlanguage pragmatics research
Giao Quynh Tran
The University of Melbourne
“Don’t worry a lot, dear!”: Reflections of PRC ESL learners on their English language learning experience
Fong Yoke Sim
National University of Singapore
Children using dictogloss to focus on form
Juliana Shak
Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Reading strategies: Caught or taught?
Chitra Varaprasad
National University of Singapore
Book clubs and extensive reading in a predominantly media-oriented world: Reflections on an experience in Croatia
Melanija Marusic
University of Split
Helping Chinese EFL students develop learner autonomy through portfolios
Zhenhui Rao
Jiangxi Normal University
English Prime: A pedagogical tool in teaching writing to law matriculation students in Kedah, Malaysia
Ho Chui Chui
Universiti Teknologi MARA Kedah
Volume 6 No 1
Investigating readiness for autonomy: A comparison of Malaysian ESL undergraduates of three public universities
Thang Siew Ming and Azarina Alias
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Applying metacognition in EFL writing instruction in China
Yuehai Xiao
Macau University of Science and Technology
Verbal complementation: A pedagogical challenge
James Mannes Bourke
University of Brunei Darussalam
Language learning beyond words: Incorporating body language into classroom activities
Tammy S. Gregersen
University of Northern Iowa
Learning communities in university classrooms
Sujata S. Kathpalia and Koo Swit Ling
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Volume 6 No 2
Blogs in English language teaching and learning: Pedagogical uses and student responses
Brad Blackstone
National University of Singapore
John Spiri
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Naeko Naganuma
Akita International University
Relatedness and learner autonomy: A case study of an adult refugee learning English in Ireland
Lorna Carson
Trinity College Dublin
English for maritime purposes: Communication apprehension and communicative competence among maritime students in the Philippines
Mildred A. Rojo-Laurilla
De La Salle University–Manila
Overcoming Asian stereotypes: Opportunities for enhancing student participation in Chinese ELT classes
Rebecca Belchamber
La Trobe University
Performance as kinesis: Facilitation and language teaching as activist performance
Gene Segarra Navera
National University of Singapore
Volume 7 No 1
Pedagogies for plainer talk: Reclaiming the commons of discourse
Everything has changed except our way of thinking—A. Einstein
Bill Templer
University of Malaya
Online study of frequency list vocabulary with the WordChamp website
John Spiri
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Elementary school EFL teachers’ beliefs and practices of multiple assessments
Yu-Ching Chan
National Taipei University of Education
Social presence and learner participation in a text chat
Pramela Krish
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Extensive reading in an ESL class in the United States: Some good points
Handoyo Puji Widodo
Politeknik Negeri Jember (Vocational College), East Java, Indonesia
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
Volume 7 No 2
Chinese graduate students’ perceptions of group size, efficiency and conflict in peer response
Lee Wai Ying
National University of Singapore
Co-teaching between native and non-native English teachers: An exploration of co-teaching models and strategies in the Chinese primary school context
Liwei Liu
Yunnan Nationalities University
Making a case for skills/strategies-based instruction for L2 listening development
Lawrence Jun Zhang
National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University
Interdisciplinary collaboration in English language teaching: Some observations from subject teachers’ reflections
Cynthia Lee
Hong Kong Baptist University
Re-educating our hearts: Reflections on teaching low-performing English language learners
Lim Meng Leng
National University of Singapore
Teaching appropriate text borrowing practices to law students in an Asian university
Ho Chui Chui
Universiti Teknologi MARA Kedah
Volume 8 No 1
Developing a critical ethos in Higher Education:
What undergraduate students gain from a Reader Response task
Ramona Tang
National Institute of Education, Singapore
Collocability as a problem in L2 production
Abbas Brashi
Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia
ELT games and teacher beliefs: The use of games in teacher education in Oman
Ali S.M. Al-Issa
Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
Reflections on using the Foxfire Approach as a collaborative strategy in avoiding plagiarism in academic writing
Paolo Niño Valdez
De La Salle University, Manila
Digital language labs with CALL facilities in India: Problems and possibilities
Seemita Mohanty
National Institute of Technology, Rourkela
Volume 8 No 2
"Try to describe the main point of your lesson.”: Student perception and identification of learning objectives in English lessons
Ruth M.H. Wong
The Hong Kong Institute of Education
The Haiku as language game, syllogism and montage
James Leslie Myers
Ming Chuan University, Taiwan
Oral presentations for English proficiency purposes
Richard Miles
Nanzan University, Japan
Outsourcing in-service education in Japan: Challenges and issues
Melodie Cook
University of Niigata Prefecture
ELT in Iranian high schools in Iran, Malaysia and Japan: Reflections on how tests influence use of prescribed textbooks
Mohammad Reza Ghorbani
University Putra Malaysia
Volume 9 No 1
A principled approach to incorporating second language acquisition research into a teacher education programme
Rod Ellis
University of Auckland and Shanghai International Studies University
Depth of academic vocabulary knowledge: Investigating depth of academic vocabulary knowledge among language-minority community college students
Maricel G. Santos
San Francisco State University, California, USA
“I wonder why they don’t talk to us more”: Exploring interdisciplinarity in Japanese higher education
John Adamson
University of Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Chinese ELT students in India: Some reflections on the use of instructionist and learner-centred activities
K. Meenakshi
Vellore Institute of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India
Volume 9 No 2
Investigating Raters’ Use of Analytic Descriptors in Assessing Writing
Wu Siew Mei
National University of Singapore
Learning Strategies for Vocabulary Development
Yongqi Gu
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Academic Writing Development of ESL/EFL Graduate Students in NUS
Deng Xudong, Lee Kooi Cheng, Chitra Varaprasad, and Lim Meng Leng
National University of Singapore
Effects of Dialogue Journals on L2 Students’ Writing Fluency, Reflections, Anxiety, and Motivation
Ming-Tzu Liao and Chia-Tzu Wong
National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
Applying Formal Vocabulary to Academic Writing: Is the Task Achievable?
Amy Man Lai Chi
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Volume 10 No 1
Socio-psychological Factors and Strategy Use in Singaporean Schoolchildren’s English Literacy Learning
Wengao Gong, Donglan Zhang, Lawrence Jun Zhang, and Tamas Kiss
English Language and Literature Academic Group, National Institute of Education,
Nanyang Technological University of Singapore
May Yin Ang-Tay
English Language Institute of Singapore
Investing in Learning English: A Case of Three Saudi Students in Singapore
Radhika Jaidev
Centre for English Language Communication, National University of Singapore
A Sociocultural Perspective on Second Language Acquisition: The Effect of High-structured Scaffolding versus Low-structured Scaffolding on the Writing Ability of EFL Learners
Sasan Baleghizadeh and Abbas Timcheh Memar
Shahid Beheshti University, G.C.
Hossein Timcheh Memar
Allameh Tabataba’i University
Representations of Self in Reflection Essays of Philippine University Students
Isabel Pefianco Martin
Ateneo de Manila University
L2 Learner Individual Differences: An Integrative and Contextualist Perspective
Zhengdong Gan
Hong Kong Institute of Education
Practice Makes Perfect Despite Imperfect Theory
Isagani R. Cruz
De La Salle University, Philippines
Genre Learning: Resources, Strategies, and Contexts
Deng Xudong
Centre for English Language Communication, National University of Singapore