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Navigating the Flow: The Dynamic Nature of Language Learners’ Well-Being in Directed Motivational Currents 导流：语言学习者在定向动机流中幸福感的动态本质

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International Journal of Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1111/ijal.12716

Arkadiusz Pietluch, Mehmet Sak

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Unpacking the Association Between Growth Mindset, L2 Grit, Conscientiousness, and Foreign Language Performance in a Chinese EFL Context 中国英语语境下成长心态、第二语言勇气、责任心与外语表现的关系

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International Journal of Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1111/ijal.12713

Hong Shi, Wei Sun

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Bilingual Development in the Tai-Vietnamese Multicultural Borderland 台越多元文化边疆地区的双语发展

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International Journal of Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1111/ijal.12719

Thi-Nham Le, Norbert Francis

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Linguistic (In)Directness in Complaints on an Online Discussion Forum for Chinese University Students 中国大学生网络论坛投诉的语言直观性

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International Journal of Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1111/ijal.12718

Jingye Guo, Yan Jiang

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Sticky Objects and Places: Entangled Emotions in an English-Medium University Educationscape 粘物与粘地：英语媒介大学教育景观中的纠缠情感

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International Journal of Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.1111/ijal.12704

Sarah Hopkyns

{"title":"Sticky Objects and Places: Entangled Emotions in an English-Medium University Educationscape","authors":"Sarah Hopkyns","doi":"10.1111/ijal.12704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijal.12704","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper explores entangled emotions in an Abu Dhabi English-medium university educationscape in relation to sticky objects and sticky places, which are objects/places saturated in affect through familiarity and repetition. Moving away from a lingua-centric approach to linguistic landscape research, this ethnographic study explores Emirati students’ emotions not only in relation to language as discourses but also in relation to semiotics, objects, and geopolitical meanings. Students’ interpretations of their semiotic and linguistic landscapes (LL) as “intertextual products” connected to emotions, identities, and levels of belonging were gained via virtual bulletin board posts and essays. Data were analyzed through thematic analysis and nexus analysis. Key findings revealed emotions of belonging in familiar and sentimental cultural and linguistic spaces and around sticky objects, comfort in “hidden places” as an escape from emotions of stress and pressure in the English-medium instruction university, and the importance of critical awareness in the educationscape. Based on the findings, the article provides practical suggestions for ways to enhance linguistic and cultural belonging in English-medium educationscapes and recognize emotional entanglements within multilingual university ecosystems.</p>","PeriodicalId":46851,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Linguistics","volume":"35 3","pages":"1019-1030"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijal.12704","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144782950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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L2 Lexical Alignment and Lexical Learning in Collaborative Continuation Writing 二语词汇对齐与合作接续写作中的词汇学习

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International Journal of Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-02-17 DOI: 10.1111/ijal.12710

Ruiying Niu, Wenjie Luo, Xiaoye You

{"title":"L2 Lexical Alignment and Lexical Learning in Collaborative Continuation Writing","authors":"Ruiying Niu, Wenjie Luo, Xiaoye You","doi":"10.1111/ijal.12710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijal.12710","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Recent studies have evidenced numerous benefits of continuation writing in supporting second language (L2) learning. However, research specifically addressing the impact of collaborative continuation writing on lexical learning is limited and has produced conflicting results, with no exploration of the relationship between lexical alignment and lexical learning. This study compares dyadic and individual continuation writing performed by L2 learners, examining lexical alignment, lexical learning, and the relation between lexical alignment and learning. Data analyses revealed that dyadic learners demonstrated superior lexical alignment and lexical learning over individual learners, that neither group's lexical alignment was significantly correlated with their word form or meaning retention on posttests, but that individual learners’ lexical alignment was correlated with their word use in posttests. These findings are discussed with reference to the collaborative dynamics in dyadic interactions, the lexical processing involved in collaborative writing, the different sources and nature of lexical alignment and learning, and transfer-appropriate processing. The study highlights the discrepancy between lexical processing and lexical alignment and their respective roles in lexical learning. The study concludes by suggesting that prioritizing lexical processing quality over lexical alignment enhances lexical learning in continuation writing.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46851,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Linguistics","volume":"35 3","pages":"1377-1387"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144782945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Language Attitudes in the Global South 全球南方的语言态度

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International Journal of Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-02-13 DOI: 10.1111/ijal.12709

Amna Brdarević-Čeljo, Vildana Dubravac, Sedina Selimović

{"title":"Language Attitudes in the Global South","authors":"Amna Brdarević-Čeljo, Vildana Dubravac, Sedina Selimović","doi":"10.1111/ijal.12709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijal.12709","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Research on attitudes toward English varieties has been identified as a crucial contextual issue that is relevant to the implementation of the <i>Teaching English as an International Language</i> approach. Thus, the current study explores the attitudes of 400 Bosnian respondents toward different English varieties, employing a verbal guise technique for attitude elicitation. It also examines the respondents’ perceived intelligibility of these varieties and their conative responses and recognition rates. The results consistently showed that inner-circle varieties, Standardised British in particular, were rated more favourably than expanding-circle varieties and were perceived as more desirable and better understood. Their correct recognition rates were also much higher than those for expanding-circle varieties. Expanding-circle varieties were rated much less favourably, with the exception of moderately accented Bosnian English. All the other expanding-circle varieties, heavily accented Bosnian English, Arabic and Turkish English, were not perceived as desirable. They were also considered less easily understood, and their recognition rates were low.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46851,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Linguistics","volume":"35 3","pages":"1362-1376"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144782910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Exploring Strategies to Connect Foreign Language Education With People Skills: Nurturing Intercultural Understanding Through the Rich Cultural Tapestry of Japanese Anime 探索将外语教育与人际交往能力联系起来的策略：通过日本动漫丰富的文化挂毯培养跨文化理解

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International Journal of Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1111/ijal.12708

Makiko Fukuda

{"title":"Exploring Strategies to Connect Foreign Language Education With People Skills: Nurturing Intercultural Understanding Through the Rich Cultural Tapestry of Japanese Anime","authors":"Makiko Fukuda","doi":"10.1111/ijal.12708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijal.12708","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In today's globalized world, the importance of intercultural understanding and interpersonal skills is increasingly emphasized. This study focuses on linking foreign language education with intercultural effectiveness and investigates the impact of using anime as a tool for cultural understanding and the development of intercultural competence. The course is an introductory Japanese culture course for non-Japanese learners, designed to introduce Japanese culture and values while encouraging students to deepen their understanding of their own thoughts, values, and culture. The intercultural effectiveness scale conducted before and after the 16-week anime course indicates significant changes in students' self-awareness, world orientation, relationship development, and emotional resilience—four of the six dimensions of the intercultural effectiveness scale. The results suggest that anime is not just a form of entertainment but also a valuable educational resource that enhances students' intercultural competence.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46851,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Linguistics","volume":"35 3","pages":"1351-1361"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144782732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Motivational Impact of GenAI Tools in Language Learning: a Quasi-Experiment Study 基因工具对语言学习的动机影响：一项准实验研究

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International Journal of Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-02-09 DOI: 10.1111/ijal.12701

Jiang Renfeng, Yang Gang, Shen Qi

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Language Teachers’ Development of Decision-Making and Pedagogical Reasoning: A Sociocultural Perspective on Peer Coaching 语言教师决策和教学推理能力的发展：同伴辅导的社会文化视角

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International Journal of Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-02-08 DOI: 10.1111/ijal.12705

Sam Saeedian, Ata Ghaderi, Minh Hue Nguyen

{"title":"Language Teachers’ Development of Decision-Making and Pedagogical Reasoning: A Sociocultural Perspective on Peer Coaching","authors":"Sam Saeedian, Ata Ghaderi, Minh Hue Nguyen","doi":"10.1111/ijal.12705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijal.12705","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Decision-making and pedagogical reasoning are two of the underlying skills in language teaching. Integrating sociocultural theory (SCT) into teachers’ classroom decisions can be one novel way to inform their decisions with pedagogical reasoning. This study adopted peer coaching as an SCT-oriented inquiry-based approach to professional development and drew on the concepts of the zone of proximal development and mediation. Two novice teachers of English participated in the study. The data were collected through documentation, classroom observation, teachers’ self-reflection, and video-stimulated recall within the context of online teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic. Conversation analysis and qualitative content analysis of the data showed that the peers scaffolded each other's decisions, actively applying the key tenets of mediation using each other, the video recordings, and the metalanguage they had mastered as mediational resources to achieve their goals in language teacher learning. The findings offer practical implications for teacher educators to implement this mediational approach to professional development in their teacher education programs.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46851,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Linguistics","volume":"35 3","pages":"1326-1337"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144782642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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