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System Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2025.103630

Nils Jaekel , Michael Schurig , Patricia Uhl , Anja Steinlen , Thorsten Piske

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Mediating across the sustainable ecology: Researchers and practitioners as collaborating epistemic arbiters in developing a Global Englishes-informed coursebook 在可持续生态中进行调解：研究人员和实践者在开发全球英语教材中作为合作的认知仲裁者

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System Pub Date : 2025-03-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2025.103639

Denchai Prabjandee , Kristof Savski

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“Go lang, teach!”: Understanding the motivations of Filipino migrant English teachers in Taiwan “去吧，老师！”：了解菲律宾移民在台英语教师的动机

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System Pub Date : 2025-03-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2025.103650

Aiden Yeh

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The relationship between resilience and second language learning achievement: A meta-analytic review 心理弹性与第二语言学习成绩的关系：一项元分析综述

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System Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2025.103640

Xinjie Chen , Zhenyi Zhou , Zhihui Cai

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Reporting practices in applied linguistics quantitative research articles across a decade: A methodological synthesis 十年来应用语言学定量研究文章的报告实践：方法论综合

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System Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2025.103627

Fahimeh Marefat , Mohammad Hassanzadeh , Sina Noureddini , Mostafa Ranjbar

{"title":"Reporting practices in applied linguistics quantitative research articles across a decade: A methodological synthesis","authors":"Fahimeh Marefat , Mohammad Hassanzadeh , Sina Noureddini , Mostafa Ranjbar","doi":"10.1016/j.system.2025.103627","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.system.2025.103627","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The standards for quantitative second language (L2) research paradigm are becoming increasingly stringent. Meanwhile, the purpose of methodological synthesis is to describe, examine, and appraise field-wide practices to augment the quality of future research. The current study strove to follow this line of inquiry by examining study quality and reporting practices in 382 experimental research articles (RAs) from seven international journals with an eye to any evolving pattern over time. In so doing, an integrated-moderated coding scheme was created. Then, the frequency counts and all related practices for the period between 2011 and 2021 were documented. The overall analysis revealed substantial adherence to methodological quality standards, including the reporting of sample size, pretesting, as well as descriptive and inferential statistics. Nevertheless, issues such as inadequate integration of probability sampling, delayed posttesting, advanced statistical techniques, and data-accountable graphs were evident as well, albeit slightly improving over time. Findings are expected to enhance the methodological awareness of L2 researchers as well as those who aspire to adopt a holistic and collaborative approach to methodological syntheses.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48185,"journal":{"name":"System","volume":"131 ","pages":"Article 103627"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143511844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Cultivating the nexus of research and practice in language teacher education: A duoethnographic exploration 培养语言教师教育研究与实践的联系：多民族志探索

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System Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2025.103642

Anwar Ahmed , Brian Morgan

{"title":"Cultivating the nexus of research and practice in language teacher education: A duoethnographic exploration","authors":"Anwar Ahmed , Brian Morgan","doi":"10.1016/j.system.2025.103642","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.system.2025.103642","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article addresses the research-practice divide in education, with a particular focus on language teacher education. In line with this special issue, we see disciplinary value in the concept of “nexus” to describe the dynamic relationship between research and practice, offering a more nuanced framework than traditional dichotomies. After introducing the notion of nexus, we briefly explore the distinction between education and education<em>al</em> research before outlining duoethnography as our methodology. Our central aim is to challenge the prevailing positivistic approaches to research, which prioritize causal generalizations and “what works” models, and to advocate instead for duoethnography – a more conversational and interpretive approach in support of research utilization. Duoethnography is a dialogic and iterative methodology, which enables us to juxtapose our life histories and lived experiences to interrogate our shared topic of interest. This approach generates multiple, often contested understandings of phenomena, foregrounding difference and multivocality. Through our duoethnographic analysis, we argue for the development of critical research literacy among prospective teachers to foster a sustainable and pedagogically meaningful nexus of research and practice. Rather than providing a prescriptive blueprint, we invite readers to engage actively and critically with research by embracing its complexity and interpretive nature.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48185,"journal":{"name":"System","volume":"131 ","pages":"Article 103642"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143551699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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System Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2025.103628

Milltin Hanming Tian, Ying Chen

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Becoming teacher-researchers through action research: The experiences of Chinese language teacher candidates in a cross-cultural context 通过行动研究成为教师研究者：跨文化背景下汉语教师候选人的经验

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System Pub Date : 2025-02-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2025.103632

Suling Yang , Jinghe Han

{"title":"Becoming teacher-researchers through action research: The experiences of Chinese language teacher candidates in a cross-cultural context","authors":"Suling Yang , Jinghe Han","doi":"10.1016/j.system.2025.103632","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.system.2025.103632","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study is situated in the problematic context where research and practice are divisive due to the dominant epistemological positioning of school teachers being trained for teaching and tertiary academics for research. It explores the experiences of two teacher candidates' becoming teacher-researchers through action research in a cross-cultural context. This is retrospective research. The participants were enrolled in a Sino-Australian language teacher-researcher education program for their Master of Education Degree. The data were collected from them through multiple interviews and documentation at the stage of their early career teaching after the completion of their degree study. The researchers took an integrated lens of narrative psychology and ecological approach as theoretical stance. Through thematic analysis, a few key findings emerged. First, the teacher candidates’ identity-agency in becoming teacher-researchers experienced emerging, strengthening, and sustaining phases. Second, experiences central to the development of their teacher-researcher identity-agency encompassed their educational background, the benefits of action research internalized through the program, and their engagement in knowledge communities. Third, internal and external forces intertwined and influenced their involvement in knowledge communities, thereby steering the evolution of their identity-agency. This research is expected to provide insight into the landscapes of future language teacher-researcher education.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48185,"journal":{"name":"System","volume":"131 ","pages":"Article 103632"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143527095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Conceptualising the actual L2 self into the L2 motivational self system 将实际的第二语言自我概念化为第二语言动机自我系统

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System Pub Date : 2025-02-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2025.103620

Xiao Hu , Yuying Zhang , Mairin Hennebry-Leung

{"title":"Conceptualising the actual L2 self into the L2 motivational self system","authors":"Xiao Hu , Yuying Zhang , Mairin Hennebry-Leung","doi":"10.1016/j.system.2025.103620","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.system.2025.103620","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>L2 motivation research has given considerable attention to possible L2 selves. The actual L2 self also plays a significant role in shaping L2 motivation, yet the concept of the actual L2 self is still not clearly defined. The present study examined the nature of the actual L2 self and its relationship with possible L2 selves through the person-in-context relational (PCR) view (Ushioda, 2009). Employing the visual methods (Magid & Chan, 2012), this study gathered picture-drawings that captured the L2 selves of 179 Chinese secondary year one English as foreign language learners from diverse instructional contexts, the majority of whom were 13 years old. Classroom observations, stimulated recall interviews, and semi-structured interviews were then conducted among 18 focal participants in one academic year to investigate their L2 selves and the contextual influences on their L2-self perceptions. The findings indicate that students’ actual L2 selves mainly consist of (i) English competence; (ii) identity; and (iii) attitudes towards English learning. The construction of the actual L2 selves vary across diverse learning experiences and instructional contexts. The study discusses the implications for theorising the actual L2 self and ways to support L2 learners by fostering the development of their actual L2 selves.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48185,"journal":{"name":"System","volume":"130 ","pages":"Article 103620"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143471595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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“I am feeling alive again”: Transformative learning between two female transnational scholars of color through duoethnography “我又活过来了”：两位有色人种女性跨国学者通过多元人种学进行的变革性学习

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System Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2025.103631

Gyewon Jang , Mahboubeh Rakhshandehroo

{"title":"“I am feeling alive again”: Transformative learning between two female transnational scholars of color through duoethnography","authors":"Gyewon Jang , Mahboubeh Rakhshandehroo","doi":"10.1016/j.system.2025.103631","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.system.2025.103631","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this study, we, two transnational female scholars of color, explore the dynamics of intercultural interactions initiated through pedagogical collaboration in teaching Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) courses. Initially focused on our students, our collaboration evolved into a profound exchange as we developed a genuine desire to connect and learn from each other, despite being strangers. From July 2022 to March 2024, we engaged in duoethnographic dialogues, examining our intersecting identities and experiences across time, space, and context. Drawing on critical interculturality, we explored how these conversations deepened our understanding of selves in relation to diverse others, including colleagues, students, and the broader global society. Our findings reveal that these conversations, serving as a site for critical friendship and co-mentorship, enabled us to develop critical reflexive approaches to confront our disparities, inequalities, and vulnerabilities within and across our identities as women and ‘non-native’ English speakers in English-medium higher education settings in the U.S. and Japan. This collaborative practice transformed us into critically engaged intercultural selves. Our study illustrates the potential of duoethnography as a powerful tool for promoting critical interculturality among educators and scholars, fostering both intellectual growth and personal and collective transformation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48185,"journal":{"name":"System","volume":"130 ","pages":"Article 103631"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143473940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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