Abstracts Archive

Critical thinking (CT) has been advocated as both a crucial component and outcome in many pe-service language teacher education programs around the world. To date, however, there is a dearth of research on how CT is conceptualized and operationalized in pre-service language teacher education. In par...

This paper conducts a validation study on a language test task with a multi-dimentional construct, integrating critical thinking ability and intercultural competence. Drawing upon 30 test-takers' task response data and 6 test-takers' test-taking process data from two parallel task forms, it explores...

This study reports on how the supplementation of online materials, informed by systemic functional linguistics (SFL), interacted with English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) student writers' development of critical thinking skills. Through qualitative analyses of student-teacher interactions, interviews...

Our life and work as educators have changed significantly due to the COVID-19 pandemic and other societal and global issues. Such challenges have placed ELT educators into unprecedented times. They must deal with increasing gaps of access and equity in quality education, especially for students from...

China has had an ambivalent policy for the learning and teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL) over much of its history. The status and role of English has thus changed over time, depending on the political period. This explicit and implicit implementation of language policy has had a parti...

Following the prevailing trend of integrating critical thinking (CT) into English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) classrooms in tertiary education, learning materials play an increasingly important role in promoting students' CT. Previous research on the cultivation of students' CT in EFL educational se...